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Make Firefox Private Again
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Re: Make Firefox Private Again
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
That offer to refresh always seemed a bit strange to me. It's like Microsoft acknowledging the crust in the registry and offering their own CCleaner. A lot of activity, dubious work actually being done. Perhaps the effect of profile lifecycles should be addressed if some hand-wavy refresh process may be required and instituted by the application. Said another way, that's a concern for the program. Not me. This should…
I think there's been some concern that people compare the speed of Firefox with a bunch of random extensions against Chrome with none. I wonder if the 'refresh' is an attempt to get away from that at the point where someone might be giving Firefox another chance. I don't remember if the refresh offer appeared back in the xul days, when there was much more scope for extensions to hurt the experience.
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Re: Make Firefox Private Again
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
That offer to refresh always seemed a bit strange to me. It's like Microsoft acknowledging the crust in the registry and offering their own CCleaner. A lot of activity, dubious work actually being done. Perhaps the effect of profile lifecycles should be addressed if some hand-wavy refresh process may be required and instituted by the application. Said another way, that's a concern for the program. Not me. This should…
I think there's been some concern that people compare the speed of Firefox with a bunch of random extensions against Chrome with none. I wonder if the 'refresh' is an attempt to get away from that at the point where someone might be giving Firefox another chance. I don't remember if the refresh offer appeared back in the xul days, when there was much more scope for extensions to hurt the experience.
I only mention this because the effect of those things could be more effectively curtailed... if the users weren't encouraged to hide the shortcomings from the application.
Sweeping things under the rug, you know?
A browser should have history, data, and extensions. Getting rid of those things doesn't qualify as a fix. It's a diagnostic step!
Re: Make Firefox Private Again
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is—it uninstalls all of your bloat the suggestion that its purpose is to trick people into uninstalling their adblocker is a ridiculous one
“bloat” Adblockers aren’t bloat; they make the web faster and more secure. “ridiculous” Mozilla’s paymasters are an advertising company.
that seems to me like a bad faith interpretation of what I wrote—I'm using "bloat" to mean all additional changes beyond the vanilla ff installation
re: "ridiculous", do you think it's likely that there's a deep conspiracy within mozilla (at the behest of google) to make users watch ads? or were you hoping that they'd write a whitelist of adblockers that should never be removed, even when wiping the browser?
Re: Make Firefox Private Again
#315I 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.
ive found in the not too distant past that sometimes playing DRM content on librewolf to staight not work. For instance playing spotify will straight not work but will work fine in firefox
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
Having run one, I have to say that towards the end people were moving to social media BECAUSE posts had a like counter. I regret not adding one to my forum.
I ran one too, I don't think it's so simple as that mechanism! Our forums had reputation counts and posts were the attribution point.
We had 'likes' but with actual accounting! For better or worse 'status' could be built with this. Likes, on the other hand, are fleeting
Both systems have perverse incentives, I think the audience - size/shape - matters, and how it all reflects/bounces.
Conspiracy moment: it's harder to fake 'grass roots' things with a smaller/tight knit community, we've been corralled. Once something is as big as Reddit, everything you're seeing is manufactured.
Personally, I think there's truth to the "Dead Internet theory;" less bot focus. Humans maintain responsibility with our choices.
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
Extensions like AdGuard and Ghostery are pretty good.
Ghostery is an ad company, just as Anonym.
Please elaborate. See also the FAQ regarding data collection: https://www.ghostery.com/faq
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#318Why does this have to be curl | sh if there’s a checkbox in the settings for this specific setting? Do you value your privacy so much that you’re ready to run arbitrary script directly from internet?
The site covers all bases. The content of the script is shown on the landing page - and you have to visit it to see the instructions to run it. The comment also explains how to do it through through the configuration UI. That means you have 3 choices: * Use curl to run the script as directed * copy/paste the command line content, edit if desired, and run * follow the instructions to update through the UI.
Author here, thanks! I just thought it was fun to make kind of a polyglot shell script-blog post :D
"yeah but you could serve a different page with the curl UA"
ok, then you just change about:config?
Re: Make Firefox Private Again
#319From the CEO's comments on reddit ( https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo... ): > we support people configuring their browser however they choose I rate this one as half true. If you leave firefox for a while and come back, it displays a bar with text like "Would you like to refresh your experience?" The first time I clicked that, it uninstalled my adblock extension. Not making that mistake aga…
That was the moment I uninstalled FF and never went back. Truly icky behavior.
Re: Make Firefox Private Again
#320I'm fine with Firefox finding ways to compete with Chrome. For me, its survival depends upon it. And with its survival, we get all sort of forks (tor browser, librewolf, and so on) for niche users like HN readers commenting here and myself (Yes, privacy is niche. I would like a different reality, but that's how it is.)