Firefox bullshit removal

#1

Post by tobiasrenger » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#2

Post by sebastian » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

Very helpful. It definitely would be worth developing an addon that would apply these settings for you.

#3

Post by MollyR » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:16 PM UTC

Interesting. Though at that point why wouldn't you just use Brave ?

#4

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:23 PM UTC

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#5

Post by mistermann » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:24 PM UTC

sebastian wrote: post #2

Very helpful. It definitely would be worth developing an addon that would apply these settings for you.

A utility that could do this across browsers as well as for the operating system would be a good startup idea.

#6

Post by gavreh » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

> NOTE: Unfortunately this is somewhat out of date. The comments link to some resources that may be more up-to-date. Patches welcome.

#7

Post by shrimp_emoji » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:31 PM UTC

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#8

Post by quiquex » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:33 PM UTC

"These are used by Mozilla to spy on you, and are as such a significant risk to privacy."

Wow that's a big claim. Any proofs that the data collected is not anonymous? It sounds a lot like fear-mongering

#9

Post by solomatov » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:36 PM UTC

Having a separate privacy conscious fork of FF would be a better solution. They can easily workaround such tweaks.

#10

Post by mediocrejoker » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 11:40 PM UTC

Websockets are used for nefarious purposes?