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The other day, I made a post about Firefox's web extensions, specifically for YouTube. A lot of people pointed out Mozilla's recent TOS update, which pertains to selling personal data. I noticed there were no suggestions, though. What alternative would you suggest, Lemmy?
Librewolf
What are the advantages?
Fork of FireFox,
with a focus on data privacy + security:
https://librewolf.net/
I'd also like to add IronFox,
similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/
From what I know, librewolf is just a script. Sm it will be susceptible to Firefoxβs policies
After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it's a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.
So it's unlikely that it will be susceptible,
unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.
Leaving Firefox and its derivatives is mostly out of the frying pan and into the fire. Proprietary browsers are worse, and Chrome and its derivatives are worse, thanks to Manifest V3.
That leaves Firefox/Gecko derivatives, like LibreWolf, and possibly some Safari/WebKit derivatives like GNOME Web.
Zen Browser is pretty nice
Iβm with you. I have Waterfox and zen installed but mostly use zen