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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by SubiculumCode »

alangibson wrote: post #12
iscrewyou wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies. So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari. It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with F…

What problems do you have? I use Firefox exclusively and I'm a heavy Google app user too (laziness...), but I can't remember ever having a significant issue

Google refuses to let Firefox have their voice typing feature.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by mschuster91 »

beervirus wrote: post #2

Firefox is so good. It's a continual source of amazement for me that a majority of HNers are using a browser made by the largest data gobbler in the world, instead of one that actually tries to prevent spying on users.

Speed, especially with a large number of tabs opened, and the Dev tools. Chrome's are the most polished by far, and it's trivial to do remote debugging on Android devices.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by jb1991 »

chromaton wrote: post #16

Is this really important given that browser fingerprinting can almost always identify a web browser?

I agree. Visit any one of these many sites that show you what your browser knows about you, it doesn’t matter if using Firefox, the site reveals a tremendous amount of information in your fingerprint. Firefox doesn’t stop any of that, despite a setting that supposedly protects you from fingerprinting.

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by splatcollision »

zests wrote: post #14
beervirus wrote: post #2

Firefox is so good. It's a continual source of amazement for me that a majority of HNers are using a browser made by the largest data gobbler in the world, instead of one that actually tries to prevent spying on users.

Firefox sends everything you type in the address bar to google by default. Would you be able to tell the difference between stock firefox and stock chrome if all you saw was the fiddler session? I don't know, I haven't tried. I did look at a firefox session in fiddler and I was not impressed. Pick your poison. If you configure all the settings in firefox properly it might be acceptable. But can you just do the same i…

Even if you've changed the search engine?

Re: Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

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Post by LittlePeter »

iscrewyou wrote: post #5
beervirus wrote: post #2

Firefox is so good. It's a continual source of amazement for me that a majority of HNers are using a browser made by the largest data gobbler in the world, instead of one that actually tries to prevent spying on users.

Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies. So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari. It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with F…

What is exactly better? I am using FF and browse Google websites, but never noticed anything.
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