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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 3 months ago by makeasnek@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] RandomlyRight@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Someone tell me pls which browsers are developed by actually decent people? I’ll switch

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 55 points 3 months ago

Firefox is a good example

[-] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 months ago

If you've already read through this and understand what it means and are still worried about your privacy, I would recommend you switch to LibreWolf - it takes all the best practices of hardening Firefox for security and works out of the box. Unfortunately, this means you can't play certain videos, it doesn't auto-update, and some - likely many - websites will break/not work. This is the price to pay for true privacy. If you don't want that, just keep using Firefox.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I've been using Librewolf for years and pages not working are extremely rare.

[-] Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

That and the pages that don't work are trying to force a fingerprinting/tracking technique you shouldn't want to allow anyways.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Or they use WebGL. I keep a chromium install just for that.

[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Sure. Firefox is developed by lovely people.

[-] coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago

You aren't happy with your selection of free software and still have the audacity to call the people behind that names? You didn't even read the article did you.

Be a "decent" person yourself and start your own browser. We'll happily judge.