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Re: Firefox bullshit removal

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Post by isjamesalive »

toyg wrote: post #11
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.

Where did you get that idea? His stance on SSM aside, Brendan Eich is not a guy I typically associate with evil.

The whole raison d'être of Brave is to restore privacy to consumers of advertisements while being fair to publishers.

The codebase is all MPL2 on Github. Nothing stopping you or anyone forking it, yada yada.

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Post by superkuh »

outworlder wrote: post #20
krapp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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)

Pretty easily. Just temp whitelist if it's really needed (ie, a bank or government website). Otherwise close the tab and avoid the waste of time that 'web app' sites represent.

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Post by Momquist »

outworlder wrote: post #20
krapp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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)

Surprisingly well, from my own experience. It can even increase your productivity and dicrease distractions: it blocks most ads, suppresses annoying "interactive" features, bans participation in most time-wasting sites (eg. facebook) while still allowing browsing. And of course security.

For the very few domains I deem absolutely necessary, I can always whitelist them.

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Post by swiley »

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.

Does this add that to the preferences GUI again? That was one of the big features I was looking for.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

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Post by CapacitorSet »

jftuga wrote: post #19

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:prefer…

>Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins >Allow running of unsigned extensions

That doesn't sound very nice.

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