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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there a list anywhere of this and other settings and features that could/should certainly be changed to better Firefox privacy?

Other than that I’m not sure I’m really going to jump ship. I think I’m getting too old for the “clunkiness” that comes with trying to use third party/self hosted alternatives to replace features that ultimately break the privacy angle, or to add them to barebones privacy focused browsers. Containers and profile/bookmark syncing, for example. But if there’s a list of switches I can flip to turn off the most egregious things, that would be good for today.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Just use LibreWolf; I’m not up to speed on this stuff but I more or less believe the hype that it will protect my privacy simply by taking Firefox and adding an ad blocker for me and disabling all the shit for me

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    A custom user.js might be a good base to work off of. For example https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox

    But jumping ship might be your best bet. Forks like Librewolf are good or otherwise a privacy respecting Chromium browser can work well too.

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

    otherwise a privacy respecting Chromium browser

    With manifest v3 and this thing active on chromium browsers, privacy respecting chromium may not exist.

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

    Some browsers have built in adblock (by reimplementing mv2 apis or otherwise) and cut out the hangouts plugin or let you disable it

    Not all, but a couple

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    For now, that's possible. But for how long? When mv2 came out, we had a few hold off as long as they could, but now they're all v2 or v3. New technology will always kill the old, whether or not it's better. It's only a matter of time. Going with a browser that has consistently made anticonsumer decisions because a different browser has made a few, doesn't seem like the sensible choice here. Granted, we should have a browser that hadn't made any such decisions, but we don't yet have one that I'm aware (I hope I'm wrong).

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

    Totally agree, unfortunately it's a question of whether Chromium forks can't keep up with cutting out Google stuff comes before or after Mozilla and/or their rendering engine falls apart.

    Fingers crossed for Ladybird + Servo

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