[image] Finally diving into my L5. I think it's broken out of the box “Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator.” … when I hit OK Firefox closes, then reopens. But all my tabs are there and I don’t notice anything wrong. @FranklyFlawless i guess this issu…

Firefox already does that for Enhanced Tracking Protection, but what I assume you want is more like how Tor Browser’s Security Level slider works. @pyllyukko’s user.js GitHub repository has two branches for those who prefer a hardened or relaxed configuration: pyllyukko/user.js - GotHub (on my GotH…

The answer is using multiple browsers for browser fingerprint isolation. I use google chrome for google accounts, facebook logins, and other big tech accounts. I use brave browser for other persistent logins. I use librewolf for temporary logins. I use yet another browser for simple searching withou…

Librewolf has been great for me for opening something like a link from an email.

It’s weird that this thread was forked from a reply on one of my posts, and now it looks like I took the bait and weighed in on this topic out of nowhere… not quite my style. But yes, I agree. Can’t just believe everything you hear – and I haven’t really seen anything to give me reason to believe F…

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” features Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser. Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behaviour on websites. In essence, the browse…

Directly related topic: [image] Mozilla buys an ad metrics company Privacy & Security It’s all about ‘privacy-centric advertising’ Essentially, Moz has bought an outfit, founded in 2022 by former Meta executives, that among other things helps advertisers and …

[image] carlosgonz: privacy preserving attribution Strangely, that setting is “off” and “greyed out” for me i.e. I can’t even turn it on (not that I want to). I wonder if there’s more to the story here.

Calling firefox a malware is a bit misleading. Malware includes viruses which firefox is not. Better call it a spyware. Thanks for letting me know that mozilla wants to make firefox track users and then shape their behavior based on tracking data. User tracking is usually done to understand users…

If you are using upstream mobile-config-firefox, their policies.json has changed the value to false and marked the status as locked: [image] Mozilla buys an ad metrics company Privacy & Security mobile-config-firefox has this issue covered in their latest comm…

[image] amano: Calling firefox a malware is a bit misleading. I was a bit aggressive, but it may falls into the Malware category already.

Firefox is malware?

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FranklyFlawless October 23, 2024, 2:50am 50

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