Is there an alternative to this that can be run locally?
It's open source (https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker). It's python based so you could run the app and serve the page locally, if that's what you want.
Firefox Profilemaker
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Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#42Earlier 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.
Autoplay with sound is a perfectly legitimate use case, but I agree with the status quo that it should not be allowed by default. In general, the "not an acceptable use case" argument is almost always a harmful distraction - it angers people with legitimate use cases and that in turn gives fuel to those supporting it only for their own harmful use-cases. Call it what it is - a useful feature that happens to be common…
I thought about this a lot, but did not find a single case where I would like to have a website suddenly play audio without me specifically clicking "play" or "unmute" somewhere.
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#43Earlier 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 that is shit, but they could also pop blinking text in your face — should we now ban text for that reason?
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#44I 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,…
Most of these defaults are what I have mine set to. I wouldn't say it's "simply awful", just different priorities. Having a tool like this allows the choice to be made in the first place, versus installing a browser and not being able to pick these without exploring.
It also explains the risks of most option pretty candidly.
The takeaway from this wizard is that firefox has a fuckton of not-very-privacy-friendly stuff.
Why does Firefox support Beacons, which have zero user benefit and only exist to track users?
Why is the battery API still present, when it's been known for years that it is used for fingerprinting and tracking?
Why is Punycode allowed when it's known to be used for phishing?
Why is a hidden DRM extension from Google allowed to download arbitrary code? (Mmmmm, tasty tasty sponsorship dollars!)
"User privacy" doesn't actually seem to be much of a priority for Firefox these days.
Gotta pay for that skyrocketing CEO pay somehow...
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I just shared that because that's how I learned I could SSH into my router at all. I'll be very careful around this stuff.
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I just shared that because that's how I learned I could SSH into my router at all. I'll be very careful around this stuff.
Good show:) Have fun!
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Autoplay with sound is a perfectly legitimate use case, but I agree with the status quo that it should not be allowed by default. In general, the "not an acceptable use case" argument is almost always a harmful distraction - it angers people with legitimate use cases and that in turn gives fuel to those supporting it only for their own harmful use-cases. Call it what it is - a useful feature that happens to be common…
I thought about this a lot, but did not find a single case where I would like to have a website suddenly play audio without me specifically clicking "play" or "unmute" somewhere.
- media sites like YouTube (some people prefer that when they click on a new video, it actually starts playing)
- notification sounds
- playlists of any sort (music or video)
Most of this can be worked around by prompting the user on load and then never reloading the page (SPA fetch-and-replace pattern), but even big sites screw this up (like YouTube, where the memory usage increases with every "fake reload").
Again, I wouldn't want just any site to do this unexpectedly, but the ones where I want those features should be able to do it.
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#48Terrible defaults, as discussed below. Also I kind of dislike the fact telemetry is disabled by default: you’re making all these non-default changes to Firefox, then you’re actively disabling the feature that tells Mozilla you value these non-default features, or any crash reports relating to them? I get it, wide-ranging telemetry is bad. But it seems like it actively hurts Mozilla to do this.
This is for the privacy focused. Telemetry is not.
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#49wow... .lovely!!!
I will never stop using this!
Re: Firefox Profilemaker
#50This is nice.
I do wish it included:
user_pref("toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled", false);
And I'm annoyed that you can't disable showing the tab bar when there's only one tab any more.
And if there were a pref to disable auto selecting the entire URL when clicking the URL bar, I'd be so happy. Makes editing a URL so painful.