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Re: Firefox Profilemaker

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Post by howdydoo »

Someone1234 wrote: post #3

I like it design wise, but like a lot of these "de-clutter" tools it defaults to disabling security features without warning and will break some sites while making most sites slower. Plus it ironically installs a bunch of browser addons. So if you hit next, next, next you'll lose: Google Safebrowsing (security), malware scan (security), DNS over HTTPS (security and sometimes functionality), Automatic Browser Updates,…

For tools like this, I'm a big fan of Shutup10's design: Nothing is changed by default. Settings are sorted by risk. It's one click to apply "recommended" settings. It's simple and beautiful.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Re: Firefox Profilemaker

#32

Post by [deleted] »

nerdponx wrote: post #4

So does this let me actually use the "multiple profiles" Firefox feature? I was always so confused by Firefox having "profiles" but apparently no interface for using or switching among them.

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Re: Firefox Profilemaker

#34

Post by GekkePrutser »

TonyTrapp wrote: post #24
atoav wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Afaik the way autoplay works is that if it is on, it does only autoplay videos without sound. This can be useful for looping video backgrounds, memes and such. If they want audio too, autoplay does not work (not even if you try to manually trigger it via js). In my eyes (browser-configurable) autoplay without sound is an acceptable use case. Autoplay with sound is not.

I would have agreed with that until news sites started popping videos into view as soon as you start reading their news articles. Since that became a way too common thing, I don't care enough for the other valid uses cases anymore and right away disable any sort of autoplay. :(

Yeah this is why we can't have nice things.

And why I run two adblockers. If you give them a finger they'll take the hand

Re: Firefox Profilemaker

#37

Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

rhtgrg wrote: post #33
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I'd like my local pihole equivalent to get them. Most defaults fail for someone.

What is your pihole equivalent/alternative?

So pihole is just some nice tooling around dnsmasq to feed it a bunch of domains to block, but if you don't care about that you can just have have a script download a hosts file and load it into plain dnsmasq (or whatever DNS server you like; with dnsmasq use `addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.d`). Bonus: lots of routers already use dnsmasq, so you literally stick that line in the config file and populate the hosts file(s) and bam, free adblock.

Re: Firefox Profilemaker

#38

Post by rhtgrg »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #37
rhtgrg wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is your pihole equivalent/alternative?

So pihole is just some nice tooling around dnsmasq to feed it a bunch of domains to block, but if you don't care about that you can just have have a script download a hosts file and load it into plain dnsmasq (or whatever DNS server you like; with dnsmasq use `addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.d`). Bonus: lots of routers already use dnsmasq, so you literally stick that line in the config file and populate the hosts file(s) and b…

Wow, thanks! I had no idea this type of thing was possible these days. I was about to ask how you'd make that hosts file but found this in my router admin panel: 'Remote Console enables SSH access into the router from a WAN connection using the modems WAN IP address.'

I do have a pihole set up and I like the web interface for it, but I look forward to playing around with this for fun.

Re: Firefox Profilemaker

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

rhtgrg wrote: post #38
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So pihole is just some nice tooling around dnsmasq to feed it a bunch of domains to block, but if you don't care about that you can just have have a script download a hosts file and load it into plain dnsmasq (or whatever DNS server you like; with dnsmasq use `addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.d`). Bonus: lots of routers already use dnsmasq, so you literally stick that line in the config file and populate the hosts file(s) and b…

Wow, thanks! I had no idea this type of thing was possible these days. I was about to ask how you'd make that hosts file but found this in my router admin panel: 'Remote Console enables SSH access into the router from a WAN connection using the modems WAN IP address.' I do have a pihole set up and I like the web interface for it, but I look forward to playing around with this for fun.

In fairness, this is way less feature rich - no statistics, no GUI, no "temporarily disable" button, but yeah for plain DNS adblock it works:)

> Remote Console enables SSH access into the router from a WAN connection using the modems WAN IP address

That sounds like it allows SSH from the public internet; I would try SSHing to its private IP with that off. YMMV.

Re: Firefox Profilemaker

#40

Post by ilikepi »

nerdponx wrote: post #4

So does this let me actually use the "multiple profiles" Firefox feature? I was always so confused by Firefox having "profiles" but apparently no interface for using or switching among them.

If you're on a Mac, and you want something slightly easier than having to drop down to a command shell to add the necessary flags, you can have Automator bundle a script as an app that you can then put in your dock. Here's the script I use:

https://gist.github.com/ilikepi/9d2e17e0d3b3efd6fc0584f46f09...

Note that, when run for the first time, it will request permission to talk to a couple system services. You can remove that stuff pretty easily though. You can also launch a shell script from Automator, which would have been easier but then I would not have had a chance to play with Applescript...

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