I’d really like to see Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser released for Linux arm64 devices, as I think it’s better to stick with ESR.
Reminder: Librewolf is based on Firefox Release, not ESR, but it is supported by my FriendlyFox project.
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You demand ??? It’s all Open Source. Get it yourself.
Also, if you actually read the thread you posted from code9n about “Backdoor in FireFox …” with the claim that the IP traced to the “US Air Force”, you would know that was wrong. They confused a domain name ( 55.65.117.34.bc.googleusercontent.com with an IP address and thought that the leading digits were the IP, when the actual IP was 34.117.65.55 … which is for mozilla push services Home - Mozilla Push Service Documentation ).
Remember: It’s Open Source. I think people might want to tame their paranoia by reading the source.
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Was not much interesting about. All the video is telling “disable tracking settings in the privacy/security settings” (most of us should already have done this), because they collect a new type of metadata.The person is just reading the public changelog. Anyway, if you still want to watch it, choose your Invidious instance.
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Hi TiX0,
i did not look at the source or the connections. But i think its plausible. There are daily more less developers on the side of Mozilla, acted by some dismissal and less support cause - it goes well.
Ribby choosed youtube for the reach…at his time. And no, it is not a viewable source in future.
But we have to accept it on personalized Data and in future it got harder. Firefox is/was bad, but we have no other future today, or we ship more free open source Apps and Phones. With Linux or some free open sourced Android ones.
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To be fair, I’ve made the same mistake myself. In a hurry … and different IP address range operators use different strategies for what a reverse lookup produces … cut-and-paste …
It is already, isn’t it?
Open Source enables choice. It isn’t for you to tell me that I can’t choose to install Firefox from the PureOS repos, even if I did so in ignorance.
The important questions are:
- which web browsers are available in the PureOS repos
- which web browser is the default web browser
- how much effort is it for Purism to continue to make a set of web browsers available in the PureOS repos
Gnome Web may eventually be a functional replacement for Firefox but I don’t think it is there yet today. Even if it were, there will always be some users who are wedded to particular user interface design and/or particular features.
Support for “extensions” and the range of extensions available may also be a consideration at the current time.
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Firefox definitely should not be in the PureoOS Repos, as i have said in other posts, and if someone wanted it they should install it externally from the PureoOS repos at your own risk.
It is big shame that Firefox it is on Free Software Operating System like PureOS. If some want it Firefox on Repos that,s fine jut go for Open Sources OSes Fedora, Debian Etc, not on PureOS and we need to Respect FSF Rules of an Operating System and Community. IMHO.
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Tried 10 different instances with no success…
I got either a “Media format is not supported” error or even worse: a redirect to googlevideo[dot]com which appears to be a Google LLC owned domain - and since I absolutely block all and any of the Ugly Squid 500+ domains…so be it!
Anyway, if the video itself was not really worth seeing and contained no valuable information, I guess I have not missed anything.
EDIT: but I guess this is outside of the scope of this discussion
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Invidious is a front end website to avoid the common YouTube side. But they still have to load videos from Google servers, so at least the media has to be allowed which means all Google gets is your IP-address (which could be hidden via Tor or other VPN services). It’s by far not perfect, but the only solution not to loose the whole access to videos on YouTube. Some instances are using proxies by their own and some are even providing onion services.
But as you agreed, it’s not worse it for this single video. I just share this in case you may want/need it some time in future. If you can live without - even better.
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Wanted to look for, but you did not link in your profile. 
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Feel free to bookmark the thread. My profile is only for the most unique traits of my identity.
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Fantastic! Many thanks for the link to your own Invidious instance and convenience to use it as a proxy!
I have definitely bookmarked it - but don’t you worry about bandwidth: it is very rare that I consider watching a YT video really worth the effort…
But thanks to you, it will be easier and safer for me to do so very sporadically.
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The OVHcloud VPS has 2 Gbps of unmetered public bandwidth, and the Invidious instance is specifically configured to maximize the performance of the Librem 5, so it is very efficiently optimized. I primarily use my Invidious instance with LibRedirect to rewrite the embedded YouTube videos’ URLs scattered all across the Internet, and occasionally for content consumption itself.
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