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Man, Firefox just kind of sucks balls now huh (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago* by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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Stop shoving AI shit into my face every five seconds thanks

Also I just hate hate hate how AI companies think we're all morons that need everything spoonfed to us by an LLM and are constantly trying to get us to self-lobotomise

umm grok pls tell me what this says me no read long sentences good : (((( except its not even some dense scientific paper but just a news article

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[–] 27 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

I'd point technically proficient people to LibreWolf on Desktop, Firefox with all the shit stripped out - AI, inbuilt ads, A/B experiments, telemetry all off (and privacy features enabled).

You do need to tweak a few things as the enabled privacy features mean you might run into issues with a few websites though, however.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I would second this suggestion, even if you don't consider yourself technically proficient, still give LibreWolf a try because it works out of the box just as well as Firefox for 99% of web pages ime. If you're inclined to fine tune it, it walks you through the tweaks you might want to implement at the beginning.

    For mobile I've been using Fennec, which has worked fine if not better than Firefox mobile. But there may be better suggestions out there for a mobile browser.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    IronFox is a pretty solid mobile option, though it's more difficult to tweak than LibreWolf and does feel like it has more compatibility issues. I keep Fennec installed as a backup, and when all else fails Vanadium works fine.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Sounds like the flatpak might have issues with the sandbox? I guess I'd need to use their repos to stay up to date.

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