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Or you can stay on a sinking ship convince yourself “It’s fine !” until it’s too late?
Whatever chose your poison 🤷
LibreWolf is great ! Coming from ArkenFox, I found LibreWolf’s override cfg a bit easier.
They also have a pacdiff cfg to see what changes from version to version without the need to roam arkenfoxes github repo for hours to find what changed or what to change.
I installed it yesterday to see how it goes :) If it doesn’t fit, will go back to Arkenfox.
No sponsors, no ads, customizable and watch YouTube videos without a premium account?
Edit1: Lighter UI
Edit2: There’s a way to use a VPN and split tunneling but didn’t dug that far right now. So it’s still possible to have the privacy feature if that’s against your threat model/privacy concerns.
I think the best thing to do is selfhosting your own instance :/ piped is doing a great job with their script to install with docker ! Yes I know this takes away the privacy feature allowing google to get your public IP and other annoying metadata… However all the rest works as expected !
It has some quirks right now though… But they are very close in solving the issue (already done with LibreTube ).
Most of the telemetry can be disabled in the Firefox settings. Some of the web services depend on some Mozilla domains so blocking all Mozilla domains will probably break a few things here and there?
Other than that, with the current situation, I would already think to switch to a Firefox fork or other alternative.
Firefox is walking a very dark path right now and you can see/feel how they are slowly rolling the enshitification path :/
4·5 months agoFor those interested, John Hammond did a video a few months ago about
.lnkextension (and other 16 hidden extensions on Windows).He doesn’t go to much or to deep into the subject, but you get a general view how this could be exploitable.
I get you ! And you’re right. It’s never to late though, until it is. We/they have been betrayed more than once by big tech and monopoly, so I think it’s justified to feel a bit anxious when something out of bound to user’s privacy/consent is implemented in the only real alternative we have right now…
I mean, sure Firefox is the only last bastion against big tech’s monopoly and all forks are depending on Firefox… So that’s not truely a real long term solution as alternative (If something is going to happen…). But as a long term Firefox user, I also have the feeling they are slowly following a dark/uncertain path.
Sure, right now it’s not that of a big deal, but what if in 3 years it becomes a big deal? Imagine a scenario where all web browsers become controlled by one single entity? Wouldn’t it be good to have an alternative? (Yeah there is Tor already) This is only possible in this kind of “hysteria” where some people take the lead before it’s too late, otherwise we will be stuck for years without any working solution, while depending on big data’s scrapper/hoarder riddled with ads and privacy invasive browsing…
Hope it make sense and that my arguments are somehow comprehensible? Not my first language so giving my best haha !
Edit: It’s not a matter of if, but when (but I hope that doesn’t apply to Firefox)
Edit2:
Just think about the Linux kernel, right now it’s the only best alternative to Windows/MacOS and everything is perfect. But what will happen in a few years when Linus steps down? Will it still be as good as today? Will big tech take a step into the kernel? Will it become the next Windows/MacOS? Who knows… That’s why alternatives are always a good thing to have before it’s too late !!