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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Xanthrax@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

The other day, I made a post about Firefox's web extensions, specifically for YouTube. A lot of people pointed out Mozilla's recent TOS update, which pertains to selling personal data. I noticed there were no suggestions, though. What alternative would you suggest, Lemmy?

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[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago
[-] seewinkler@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago
[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fork of FireFox,
with a focus on data privacy + security:
https://librewolf.net/

I'd also like to add IronFox,
similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/

[-] aeternum 1 points 4 months ago

From what I know, librewolf is just a script. Sm it will be susceptible to Firefox’s policies

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it's a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.

So it's unlikely that it will be susceptible,
unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.

[-] standarduser@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Just switched to it the other day. I liked the letterboxing and its assistance to reduce fingerprinting and OOTB ublock origin. And the familiarity of Firefox made it an easier transition from reg Firefox.

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