Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-down7·1 year 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.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 year 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-up5·1 year 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.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year 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-up3·1 year agoLove Librewolf, its default privacy settings are the best I have seen.
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year 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
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/