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Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#101

Post by balladeer »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #66

Would have not gotten the backlash it's getting if the author was a bit modest and titled the repo: "How to get rid of FireFox features you don't need", or something like that. Security is an important issue, but as someone who thinks WebRTC is the only missing piece of the puzzle that could help bring true decentralization to the Web, I think bashing on WebRTC just because of its security issue is short sighted. (No…

> "Pocket Integration" IS a bullshit

And it is still around. It has still not been made into a removable AND turned off by default component which is the least Firefox should have done if at all they can't live without shipping Firefox with it.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#102

Post by [deleted] »

CapacitorSet wrote: post #29
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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Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#105

Post by quickben »

yborg wrote: post #97
CompuHacker wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I added an exception and read the page I received. A single author describes changes he made to his Firefox options from 29 onward. There is no plural "they", and, to my understanding, the information is not current. Should this information become inaccessible because certs weren't paid for?

I think he's just pointing out the irony of someone purporting to aid the security-conscious having an expired cert on his own site. Unless this is really some meta-level social commentary on how people will trust a complete stranger's website despite an invalid cert because he seems like a nice guy.

Why do few pages of readonly text advice need a certificate that badly?

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#106

Post by foo101 »

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.

What plugins or techniques do you use to disable JavaScript while keeping the flexibility to whitelist some of the websites where JavaScript can be enabled?

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#107

Post by mrob »

To this I would add:

  middlemouse.contentLoadURL=false
This anti-feature means missing the target of a middle-click by a single pixel can leak the contents of your clipboard or load unexpected URLs. I don't understand why it's still on by default -- Mozilla has been willing to break peoples workflow for UI improvements many times before.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#108

Post by st3fan »

gsich wrote: post #68
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

You send them data. Now they have your IP. You don't know if it gets deleted.

AFAIK We throw IP addresses away pretty quickly after receiving a telemetry packet.

You can read about our data collection approval process here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

An IP address would be Category 4 - I think it is pretty much impossible to get approval for category 4.

I highly doubt we have any products out there that actually collect Category 4 data.

Re: Firefox bullshit removal

#109

Post by st3fan »

______53 wrote: post #47
stonogo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not on us to prove it's not anonymous. It's on Mozilla to prove it is.

I believe you can see the data that's being sent by typing about:telemetry in the address bar.

Or you can put a sniffer on the line, or read the source code, or read the code for the receiving end.

Or .. just talk to someone on the team and ask questions. Mozilla is incredibly open and transparent. Anyone can even join team/product meetings on video chat.

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