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If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting. (mastodon.ar.al)
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If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting.

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if OP is talking about any specific measures, but in general, I know that Firefox is trying to strike a good balance with its defaults, making it as privacy-respecting as possible without causing half the web to break, or accidentally decreasing people's privacy.

Nevertheless there are projects like Arkenfox, Librewolf, or people manually messing around in about:config flipping flags like privacy.resistFingerprinting (lots of breakage there!), claiming that they increase privacy.

And of course to some extent they do, it's just that if, a month later, you try to modify a Google Doc and find out that everything is blurry, you'll have forgotten that you flipped that pref, and switch to a less private browser.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm okay with firefox's stupid defaults because it always lets you change stuff in about:config. I like how customizable the browser is. Also, yes, anything you flip makes you more fingerprintable, so it's always a trade-off. If you don't want to be fingerprintable then you have to use chrome with browser defaults. That's just the way it is. But then you are using a super non-private browser that isn't blocking trackers. So pick your poison.