• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    NetCat. /s

    Seriously though, I just use Firefox. LibreWolf is basically Firefox with stricter defaults, and over the years I’ve already tweaked Firefox to use all the privacy features anyway.

    I know there’s some extra sauce implemented in LibreWolf that Firefox lacks, but that stuff seems like too much of a compromise for me (like canvas fingerprinting).

    Plus, I think orange looks nicer in my window list than blue.

    I also don’t use tor or a vpn unless I can’t access anything otherwise. I guess I don’t really see the need to, since I don’t think I’m doing anything that’ll draw the government’s attention.

    • djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      You can turn off canvas fingerprinting or any added feature with a single checkbox. I used to feel the same way about LibreWolf, but once I familiarized myself with the different settings, it became clearly the superior option if you value privacy. I also set my Firefox settings strictly, but then they added new “features” and turned them on by default. That was the last straw for me.

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      3 months ago

      I started moving from Firefox to LibreWolf and found a few too many convenient features broke.

      I think password and bookmark syncing was too difficult to move away from, as I use them across devices/phone.

      Haven’t had time to research alternative methods or practices.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Firefox may silently opt you into “features” such as targeted advertising. Librewolf acts as a barrier.

      Also “nothing to hide” is fine if you have nothing to say and you don’t care about liberty.