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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption (jlai.lu)
submitted 22 hours ago by azalty@jlai.lu to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
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I believe LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption. Most options are either : all or nothing. No in-between.

Sadly, I believe the default settings are too strict and will slow down adoption by the mass, which would in term bring a better anonymity set.

It's not a great alternative to Firefox because LibreWolf is just not usable for the daily user: no DRM, no cookies, no history, websites that break... The browser should let the user choose:

  • Maximum compatibility (more tracking)
  • Mid-option (like a modded firefox but without the annoyances like cookies not being stored, having a fixed size, or forced light-mode/timezone)
  • Best privacy (pretty much the current mode)

I find myself forced to edit the default settings which is a huge privacy/fingerprinting risk. If we create 'settings groups', yes, the privacy will be hurt, but at least we will be more in each group.

What do you think about this?

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Does it really?

So far all the freakout has been due to changes to its terms of service. There's been no changes to the codebase that add any data collection.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 2 points 18 hours ago

I’m not talking about the ToS thing. Firefox has been gradually collecting data, mainly telemetry, in a pseudo anonymous way or saying they are fully anonymous, but without providing any way to disable it easily. The provided opt-out check doesn’t remove all the telemetry checks, like the different pings being sent occasionally, telling them which version of Firefox you're using for their analytics and usage stats.

The more Firefox grows, the more data they collect. It’s been like that for quite some time. Mozilla is a fake non-profit, higher-ups get paid a shit ton, and almost all their income comes from Google being the default search engine.