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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

And LibreWolf is better. It's Firefox with all of the privacy settings preconfigured and uBlock Origin preinstalled. Also, crap like Sponsored sites and Pocket are removed.

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

    Is LibreWolf still a version or two behind on Gecko?

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

    AFAIK the most recent Firefox version is 118.0.2 and LibreWolf is based on that

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

    How is Librewolf different from Mullvad browser, which is supposed to be Tor browser (hardened FF) without the Tor?

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

    The Mullvad Browser is based on the Tor browser, but it doesn't use the Tor network, whereas LibreWolf is based on Firefox + arkenfox user.js. LibreWolf is better for normal day-to-day browsing, where as Mullvad is meant to be used for high privacy/security tasks. Mullvad is kinda hard to daily drive, because it can't be configured to save cookies, you can't really use extensions and it lacks some other things. These features were removed in the Tor browser, because as I said, it's meant for high thread model usage. Edit: I like the Mullvad browser and I use it myself, but not as my daily driver.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    High threat*

    Not trying to correct you at all, only for ppl's understanding :)

    Btw ty for mentioning Mulvad Browser. I liked it honestly but it's still new, you feel me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Waterfox is similar, though it doesn’t install additional extensions but comes with a bit of look and feel customization options instead. It restores those non-floating tabs from quantum by default and is pretty speedy.

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

    Waterfox is more for look and feel, whereas LibreWolf makes significant privacy improvements. You can choose for yourself. Btw: You can also customize the UI on LibreWolf, just enable userChrome.css customization under Settings -> LibreWolf -> 'Allow userChrome.css customization'. Now, you can customize everything you want.

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

    Well yes, Wolf is a lot more focused on privacy, but it’s also a secondary goal for Waterfox. In 6.0 they enabled DNS over Oblivious HTTP (no idea what that means but you probably do) by default and incorporated yokkoffing’s Betterfox preconfig of user.js. It’s for those who are concerned about privacy but not nearly as much as the privacy community. For me, I’d rather have cookies.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    they enabled DNS over Oblivious HTTP (no idea what that means but you probably do)

    It's basically the standard DNS-over-HTTPS functionality that is already present in almost every browser but routed over a special proxy server. Unfortunately though, Firefox uses Cloudflare services for this.

    For me, I’d rather have cookies.

    I also have LibreWolf configured to store cookies. It blocks 3rd-party cookies though.

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