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I recently switched to LibreWolf[0] and, after tweaking a few settings that were more zealous that I'd like, it has been just as good as vanilla FF. 0: https://librewolf.net/
What settings and why? Did they break some sites? Been meaning to try LibreWolf too.
I recently switched to LibreWolf[0] and, after tweaking a few settings that were more zealous that I'd like, it has been just as good as vanilla FF. 0: https://librewolf.net/
Have used it as my secondary browser (~everything that doesn't need login: documentation, news, etc) for a couple of years now and it is great. Also always looking for someone to create a paid version of Firefox that: - stays up to date with development of FF - turns off all the stupid ideas - gradually re-implement the most important parts that certain old extensions dependend on: scrapbook, scheduled website update…
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>Really sad to see Firefox’s direction but also not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things. I'm not sure there is an alternative. It's not just Firefox: other big projects like this already have foundations and lots of money in funding, but then spend the money on things not at all related to the core mission. From what I've read, Mozilla won't even take your money to develop Firefox. They'll instead us…
It’s depressing that anything moderately successful may be doomed to being taken over this way, by people looking to abuse the institution for their own political activism. I wasn’t aware that Wikipedia also had the same issue. Not using donations for the core thing donors think they’re supporting is so deceptive.
wasn't aware that 'anonym' existed. I don't care if PII is stripped or not. the answer to 'helping advertisers' or anything with advertisement metrics in any fashion is always 'No.' - training things so that there's better data on how to best manipulate our psyche / give people data to psychologically manipulate us in to buying/doing things is a hard 'No.' > Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base,…
> advertising as a business model is what allows the internet to be free and open to everyone My favorite period in internet history was the years in which self-hosted phpBB forums dominated the social landscape. We had a diverse set of forums paid for by one or more of their participants, who made the forum available simply because they liked hanging out with the community they were hosting. Advertising-based social…
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HN is only as good as dang makes it. There are a ton of other link aggregators out there, many more “free” than this. Yet here we are. Why? Because the folks behind this link aggregator pay dang to be here.
What are they? Can you link to them? Would love to see what else is out there! Personally I don't care much for discussion about web programming really, but more general tech news(fusion, space and the related politics).
# curl https://make-firefox-private-again.com | sh
sigh
# How to use:
# curl https://make-firefox-private-again.com | sh
curl | sh for THIS? Riiight, let's give that website permission to execute arbitrary code on your computer just to change a single FF preference? Really????
I think this is a bit of a sensational take. The code being executed is all there without obfuscation.