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"It has to be Chromium" (lemmy.world)
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[–] 156 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

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  • [+] 123 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wow wow wow, care to explain ? This r huge news for me

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    but hardened firefox 😏

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is it as simple to use out of the box as Firefox or does it require some tinkering first?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    No tinkering required, technically you could achieve the same result with regular Firefox + tinkering.

    It’s as simple out of the box but with a greater focus on privacy with telemetry off and the pocket integration disabled.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can confirm. Started using it yesterday after another comment. It's pretty much plain FF, so works well right out of the gate. I enabled some features in the setting like Firefox sync and allow DRM media, but I'm really liking it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I've found that it might not work on banking sites because of the fingerprinting protection. Be warned, if you try to use on banking sites, you may be locked out. I suggest you do all banking and stuff on a separate browser that saves cookies and tracks you.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The new Mullvad browser is even better, and regularly maintained. But a little bit further down on the privacy end of the Spectrum and further from the useability end. Watch out for timezones, that one always gets me!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fr, people need to stop the lies that firefox itself is a privacy respecting browser, which it isnt- not since it was bought out years back.

    LibreWolf and Mullvad are great examples of Firefox Forks that are ACTUALLY privacy focused browsers.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Bought out? Firefox was never bought out by anyone. What are you talking about?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    My bad, bought out was the wrong way to word it- I should have said "Made partnerships with-" then listed Google and Yahoo(defunct), China and Russia.

    If you watch this video discussing how privacy respect firefox is by default- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls you'll see the telemetry they collect is miles long and Firefox is no better at protecting your privacy than Chrome/Chromium is whatsoever.

    Definitely recommend Librewolf or Mullvad, which are actual privacy respecting browsers, even Chromium forks like Brave are better than default firefox.

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