Mozilla and Meta (Facebook) team up to invade your privacy - They're building even more spyware into Firefox

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It just sounds like another toe has inched forward towards a future where our civil liberties and freedoms are forbidden concepts.

Eat the bugs, nigger boy. Watch the ads, suck the boy penis, your life is forfeit.
 
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Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
happily using librewolf as a firefox refugee. i tried brave and it just didnt feel right. and im not touching anything chrome with a 10 foot pole. let's hope these features dont migrate their way into librewolf
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Looks like they're already gutting it in their next release: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/1936
Also that's a nice issue number. Wonder if anything interesting happened in 1936.
Lei Wulong's Left Leg said:
BRAVECHADS ONCE AGAIN ON TOP AUGH YEAH
(Just ignore the shitcoin ads)
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Brave is also based on chrome, good luck not being owned by alphabet...
 
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NoReturn said:
What do you use then, smart guy?
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Librewolf. Which is a hardened form of firefox with tracking disabled by default... It's right there just above...

Don't get me wrong I also have chromium for things I do with my friends when I need a gay browser that just works. Privacy is a trade off however. I'm happy to do my base load browsing in librewolf where I cannot be tracked as easily and do anything that requires a "compliant" browser in chromium.
 
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Al Dente Alighieri said:
It just sounds like another toe has inched forward towards a future where our civil liberties and freedoms are forbidden concepts.

Eat the bugs, nigger boy. Watch the ads, suck the boy penis, your life is forfeit.
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I take solace in the fact that there are people who have an autistic level of hatred for ads and will forever try to circumvent them, even if it means making an entire OS, and I will gladly contribute with my bit towards it.
 
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I don't use Firefox, but I wonder if Adnausem is able to combat this.
 
I am interested in what the prime choices are in unfucking the internet. I have seen a variety of extensions that roll back the layout on YouTube, but I have not really looked into extensions too much in general.
Pee Cola said:
I'm glad I almost never upgrade FF, and when I do it's onto the oldest ESR release I can get away with. This is because Mozilla has a bad habit of making FF slightly worse with every new release. Looks like they're going all out and making a future release much, much worse.

As sad as it is, despite being riddled with programmer socks, FF is still arguably the least worst mainstream browser overall.

EDIT: I should probably try LibreWolf, but I'm not sure if it supports all the add-ons I use in Firefox to try and unfuck current year Internet as much as humanly possible.
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I don't use Firefox, but I wonder if Adnausem is able to combat this.
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From the 'learn more' link:
Privacy-preserving attribution works as follows:


  1. Websites that show you ads can ask Firefox to remember these ads. When this happens, Firefox stores an “impression” which contains a little bit of information about the ad, including a destination website.
  2. If you visit the destination website and do something that the website considers to be important enough to count (a “conversion”), that website can ask Firefox to generate a report. The destination website specifies what ads it is interested in.
  3. Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”.
  4. Your results are combined with many similar reports by the aggregation service. The destination website periodically receives a summary of the reports. The summary includes noise that provides differential privacy.
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Potentially the AdNauseum extension can gain access to this 'report' before encryption and just fill it with more retarded shit, but ideally you would want to prevent it being generated/sent entirely (so, more uBlock instead of AdNauseum etc)

It does in the end come down to how/when the report is generated and whether extensions have access to it or are blocked 'for safety'.
 
Yeah this is probably the last straw for me. I've been a diehard Firefox user since I started using computers in the first place and it sucks to see what's happened to it now. Is Brave really the way to go? Is there any difference between Brave and Ungoogled-Chromium besides Brave having built-in adblocking and a different UI? I'm not too particularly fond of the Chromium engine but I'm also not sure if any forks are Firefox are good to use at all. I've been using a hardened version of FF for a while now but I'm going to switch as soon as possible.
 
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Pee Cola said:
In no particular order:
- uBlock Origin
- SponsorBlock
- BlockTube
- Clickbait Remover for YouTube
- Hello, Goodbye (chatbot blocker)
- Return YouTube Dislikes
- TamperMonkey
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Additionally, I love DF Tube (Distraction free YouTube). Completely removes the suggestion bar when watching videos. Not for everyone but it makes my day-to-day use of the site so much more enjoyable.
 
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I want firefox to just disappear already, I'd rather that than see its CEO and Google parade the corpse of a beloved browser as controlled opposition.
 
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Miller said:
and an extension that allows you to save Webp images as PNG.
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Smooth Operator said:
Additionally, I love DF Tube (Distraction free YouTube). Completely removes the suggestion bar when watching videos. Not for everyone but it makes my day-to-day use of the site so much more enjoyable.
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Looks like a couple more extensions for me to add to FF whilst I work out how many of them will also work with LibreWolf (or have a LibreWolf equivalent)
 
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