Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

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• remington@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  librewolf.net

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  • isosphere@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.

    I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

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    • remington@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hey! Thanks for the heads up. This looks good and I’m going to try it out.

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  • ded@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Librewolf is mostly a autoconfig file for Firefox (which is a Firefox feature). codeberg.org/librewolf/settings/…/librewolf.cfg I doubt implementation of terms will be optional.

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    • remington@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.

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• isosphere@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.

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    • rfr_Foglia@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Shouldn’t the Zen team be able to avoid sending data to Mozilla considering that FireFox is open-source and they can change the code?

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.

        Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren’t many of them and why they’re all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure because you won’t be able to keep up, you’ll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.

        This is basically all there is.

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  • termus@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How is it with blocking ads?

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    • isosphere@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.

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      • termus@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Awesome, appreciate the information!

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