Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoFirefox 120 ships today with massive privacy improvements - gHacks Tech Newswww.ghacks.netexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1976arrow-down18
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minus-squaresviper@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down7·7 months agoFirefox is good privacy wise, but does not have sensible default. Also there have been times when mozilla have made not so promising statements. For true privacy enthusiasts see See
minus-squareTangledHyphae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·7 months agoAgree, I recently checked further after seeing “sponsored” icons in my new tab page. Had to turn that off. I understand why it’s on by default, it’s just not congruent with privacy.
minus-squareInfiniWheel@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoI’d say thats less a matter of privacy since it doesn’t reveal anything to the “sponsors”. More like bloat? Honestly can’t find the exact for rn
minus-squareTangledHyphae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoI think you’re right. It exposes whatever IP endpoint you’re on to the request but irrelevant with a VPN.
minus-squarexylogx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoLove Librewolf, its default privacy settings are the best I have seen.
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoOr, you know, arkenfox and its wiki: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
Firefox is good privacy wise, but does not have sensible default. Also there have been times when mozilla have made not so promising statements.
For true privacy enthusiasts see See![LibreWolf](https://librewolf.net/)
Agree, I recently checked further after seeing “sponsored” icons in my new tab page. Had to turn that off. I understand why it’s on by default, it’s just not congruent with privacy.
I’d say thats less a matter of privacy since it doesn’t reveal anything to the “sponsors”. More like bloat? Honestly can’t find the exact for rn
I think you’re right. It exposes whatever IP endpoint you’re on to the request but irrelevant with a VPN.
But…does it sync?
Yes
Love Librewolf, its default privacy settings are the best I have seen.
Or, you know, arkenfox and its wiki: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/