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Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#11

Post by toyg »

MollyR wrote: post #3

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

Brave are just a different kind of evil. They basically want to hijack advertising and tracking so that they get the money rather than google, but it’s the same crap.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

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Post by brendyn »

solomatov wrote: post #9

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

I use IceCat which is essentially that. It's based on the ESR releases though since it's hard for the few volunteers to keep up with Firefox's releases.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

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Post by outworlder »

quiquex wrote: post #8

"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

Yeah.

Companies should be transparent about the data they collect and how they anonymize it – and should be easily disabled if needed if you need serious privacy, as is possible that some resourceful actor could de-anonymize the information somehow. But this kind of data is not necessarily harmful.

People disabling telemetry will often be the same ones complaining about "poorly written applications and company X should know better". Well they don't because you disabled telemetry, now the company or organization has no data to improve anything, be it performance, crashes or even UI. Bug reports are not enough.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

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Post by krapp »

outworlder wrote: post #15

Websockets? Really? Even if they are an ugly hack on top of HTTP, they are too damn useful to be disabled. Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.

>Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.

...as if much of HN's userbase doesn't already do that.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

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Post by jftuga »

https://waterfoxproject.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/

    Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
    Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
    Removed Pocket
    Removed Telemetry
    Removed data collection
    Removed startup profiling
    Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
    Allow running of unsigned extensions
    Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
    Addition of Duplicate Tab option
    Locale selector in about:preferences > General

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#20

Post by outworlder »

krapp wrote: post #18
outworlder wrote: post #15

Websockets? Really? Even if they are an ugly hack on top of HTTP, they are too damn useful to be disabled. Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.

>Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it. ...as if much of HN's userbase doesn't already do that.

Indeed. I wonder how they can get anything done. (Other than posting on HN itself, that is)
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