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If you prefer Firefox to chrome, then the best alternative is librefox. Librefox is Firefox without all of the tracking: https://github.com/intika/Librefox/
I think IceCat is a better alternative: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ .
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I switched to Brave - no regrets
You don't regret supporting a guy who wants to ban same sex marriage and pushes covid misinfo?
Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways: Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla's HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository). Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic. It's nuts and another indication Mozilla doesn't understand the reason they exist, but it's not that hard to get ar…
3) Install Firefox from your operating system's repository instead of from Mozilla
Additionally, upon first launch of Firefox, a unique client identifier is created, and this is sent to Mozilla by default probably before you get a chance to disable telemetry features within the preferences dialogs. See [2], [7], [8] and [9].
As these privacy impacting features are enabled by default, before first launch of Firefox on Linux, you should disable these third party and telemetry features and also lock down other security and privacy settings. See [10] and [11] for the method of doing so, and an example user.js that contains decent documentation on well over a 100+ recommended configuration changes to make Firefox more respectful of privacy and security. If you don't reconfigure a user.js before first launch, at least the "New Profile" event will be notified to Mozilla with the unique client ID after a delay of only 30 minutes from creation of the first Firefox profile[9] (first launch).
[1] https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3923
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/HEAD/build/moz.con...
[3] resource://gre/modules/URLFormatter.jsm (use within Firefox URI bar)
[4] resource://gre/modules/AppConstants.jsm (use within Firefox URI bar)
[5] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/fi...
[6] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages...
[7] resource://gre/modules/ClientID.jsm (use within Firefox URI bar)
[8] resource:///modules/BrowserUsageTelemetry.jsm (use within Firefox URI bar)
[9] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/c3ec016fafa4cea6a0...
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Lynx is the only one I trust, but it's quite limited. Everything else has my suspicion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
What's the lynx-but-graphical alternative? I just want a minimal web view and input a URL. Why doesn't this exist
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The thousands of people a year murdered by local police (many of whom are unarmed and innocent) would probably disagree.
You should at least attempt to use real statistics in your comments.
It is also clear from investigative reporting that many police departments have a long history of colluding with local coroners to cover up many additional deaths.
Colin Kaepernick didn't recently start a multimillion dollar fund to aid families of victims in getting secondary independent coroner/autopsy reports without reason.
If the fact that this is necessary doesnt terrify you or the people in your community, then I don't know what to say.
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How was this principle violated in this case?
I personally feel like it's not treating user's privacy as "fundamental" to increasingly add telemetry like this. In this case correlating downloads to system installs, and to have that on by default. It's fairly hidden first off (what % of users are going to watch the checksums or read these articles?). You also don't seem to get a chance to opt-out of this until after the installation when you can open settings in…
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/a8ed6ae9c48c93474fbe...
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You log into your mozilla account from your browser through the goddamn internet. They literally have to have your IP address for that and that adds absolutely zero information than necessary. It is just “people want to be outraged over nothing” yet again.
What's a Mozilla account?
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You log into your mozilla account from your browser through the goddamn internet. They literally have to have your IP address for that and that adds absolutely zero information than necessary. It is just “people want to be outraged over nothing” yet again.
I've used Firefox for years and have never created a Mozilla account.
It's sounds like this is describing the stub attribution feature. You can read more details at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Stub_Attribution https://bedrock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stub-attribution.ht...
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/issues/9830
https://github.com/mozilla-services/stubattribution/pull/103
You'll see references to bouncer as well, which is https://github.com/mozilla-services/go-bouncer
No tracking codes will be used if the user has DNT set, which is most people who care about not being tracked.