Mozilla's Latest Quagmire

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This is a rant about opt out not being perfect, afaiu. Firefox still provides better AI control than alternatives, in that you can choose the model, including a private one. Is this wrong?

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• vikingtons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can we talk about how they recently shoved perplexity in there as a default search engine?

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please I don’t want to lose Firefox too 😰

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is what you want

    https://Librewolf.net

    It’s literally the latest FF but with the telemetry and AI ripped out, and proper adblocks etc

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    • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If anyone tried Librewolf previously and found it too restrictive, I changed 2 settings that were game changers for me. I disabled fingerprint blocking and installed canvas blocker instead. Then I enabled Mozilla sync. Bam, perfect web browser for me at least.

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  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Too late!

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    • velindora@lemmy.cafe ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I bet you use brave

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Vivaldi is pretty nice

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    • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Vivaldi is chromium, though.

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• Cooper8@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What would it take for a fork of Firefox to become the main branch one must wonder? I know I switched to LibreWolf and IronFox when this all started, not FireFox. Now I’m hearing WaterFox works on the platforms I use (is it as good?)

  Neither of these projects are doing core feature development on the browser engine though, as far as I can tell. I guess what it would take is a heap of cash for them to really compete.

  I see LadyBird and the grumbles about their sponsors, but at least they are really doing work from the core rather than modding.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    WaterFox is just Firefox without the Mozilla parts people don’t like (AI, sponsored content, telemetry). It is not as hardened as Librewolf, which can break sites with it’s anti-fingerprinting techniques. It’s a perfect browser for casual use (and widest compatibility).

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    • Cooper8@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wish projects like this would offer simple “security profile” settings that would allow you to batch change the relevant settings between the most common suggested settings for different usecases.

      Just “General use” and “Privacy” profiles would go a long way.

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