A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
Rules:
In Firefox, type about:config in address bar, search for "sponsored" and "telemetry" and set all the paremeters you see from TRUE to FALSE. Done.
We shouldn't have to do workarounds like that in the first place. It's getting to be like the Stockholm syndrome people have about Windows abuses. I didn't put up that shit, and I'm not gonna put up with this either.
I'm running Linux and neither Waterfox or LibreWolf are present in repository of one of the most popular distros. Come on?!
If you are using a debian flavor, you can likely add extrepo that searches a central repo of repositories and can add them as needed.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y
sudo extrepo enable librewolf
sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y
Why always this Terminal bullshit? Why can't I just find it and click Install like a normal user and not like a fucking caveman?
Soo... where do we go now? What open source alternative exists that is on the side of its users?
Just keep using Firefox. Nothing in the code has changed, and if it does you can switch to forks. You all are evangelizing about how important FOSS is to prevent this exact scenario and yet you keep switching browsers for no need at all.
Note: I love Foss, I just think this is an overreaction
Ladybird looks promising.
Depends on where you stand on misogyny and transphobia.
I feel out of the loop on this one. Is there a particular individual on the project that this is about, or is this a company policy issue?
There is a link on another FF post to GitHub where someone changed "he" to "they" in the documentation. All references to a user being able to do anything in the documentation only uses "He".
The main dev told them to "keep their politics to themselves" and refused the fix.
I think that's a pretty cheap PR. Ideally it should be rewritten to not to use pronouns. The PR is low effort and feels like it was deliberately done for attention.
I think that's a pretty cheap PR.
And?
Ideally it should be rewritten to not to use pronouns.
Why? Linux kernel docs use pronouns and they, and they're fine. What's so special about Klingland that they need to keep pronouns out?
The PR is low effort and feels like it was deliberately done for attention.
Have you ever seen the piles of "good first issue" tags on github? Most newcomers start with simple changes, and documentation improvements are high up in being a user's first contribution. Do you have anything that suggests the person behind the PR had such intentions, beyond you thinking it's low effort?
Soon the only private option left will be to curl the website, read the html and picture it in my head.
said Ajit Varma, veep of Firefox Product
Pack up your shit, and get the FUCK out. You're a fucking disgrace.
Now that Mozilla's fucked. What's the next option that's not Chromium?
Given that this is a privacy community, I would think that it would go without saying, But I just like to point out, We should probably disable Firefox sync if were using it. Log out of Firefox accounts in the browser. Even if you're not giving them telemetry they have all that data.
~~You can use the x bookmarks sync plugin, Don't make an account with them just use the un-logged in plugin to backup and restore your bookmarks between browsers. On the upside it'll even let you copy bookmarks from Firefox derivatives to Chrome derivatives.~~
Go down a comment or two and use Floccus, Just converted it's wonderful
at their location. However the want it
Alternative to FF Sync?
I Iove this shit. Send to devices, multiple devices, bookmarks, passwords..
Xbrowsersync for bookmark syncing. Works across browsers. A real password Manager, like Bitwarden, for passwords.
I think the killer feature of ff sync is being able to see open tabs on other devices. Is there any other way to achieve that?