Librewolf’s defaults are so bad, and changing them basically entirely removes the anti fingerprinting features
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Enkrod@feddit.org 1 month ago
- it’s fucking Chromium
Go use some Firefox-derivative like Librewolf or Fennec, like a sane person.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 month ago
towerful@programming.dev 1 month ago
Never used librewolf.
But it sounds like the conveniences you want are a compromise for fingerprinting.Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.
The internet has been significantly ruined by large companies.
There is a loop where companies with the resources to create and maintain frameworks/tooling/whatever are large enough to help define “features” for browsers.
Browsers don’t make money, not really. To even be considered, they have to be able to run what the big companies are pushing.
All of this makes it very easy for smaller companies to deliver better websites. Or abuse the features big companies are pushing.It’s like: email was awesome, then spam emails happened. Websites were accessible, then SPAs happened. Search engines were useful, the scraping/AI happened.
I don’t know what I am trying to say.
Other than browsers do not get the support they deserve to actually be decent unless they are backed by a company that wants to loss-lead them… Which has resulted in the web being pretty fuckedElectricd@lemmybefree.net 1 month ago
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.
Same can be said about fingerprinting protection.
Search engines were useful, the scraping/AI happened.
Google’s quality has decreased, but other engines have improved, and LLM search summaries are really good (brave search is a good example of this)
I think LibreWolf enforces compromises I’m not willing to do, instead of using different techniques
bilb@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I agree, I know why they do it and I can appreciate it, but it’s just not for me. I do not want my history and cookies cleared when I closed the browser, for instance. That is massively inconvenient and not really relevant to my “threat model.”
So I guess I wouldn’t say they are bad, but certainly not ideal for me.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
What’s the problem with the defaults? I use pretty much the default settings with no issue
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 month ago
Forced English language, light mode, fixed window size or borders, cookies removed after closing, no history(? Not sure about this one)
Want those or just one of them? You have to remove ALL fingerprinting protections for some reasons. Might as well use Firefox then…
xiii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
LibreWolf doesn’t update itself on OSes other than Linux, it’s a security nightmare for an average person.
TerribleReason1234@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
No, go use Google Chrome like everyone else.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, this is important. Fuck Google. I will only ever use a chromium browser if I have to for work or for a misbehaving website.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I will reject the misbehaving website rather than resort to using Chromium.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Occasionally though, life requires using a shit website. I do avoid it if possible though
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your attitude is very reasonable. I strive to be as unreasonable as I can.
reference
___ “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t know enough about browsers to really know anything about chromium. But I did see a statement from Google which I believe stated that they were removing support for adblockers from chromium based browsers. It was at that point that I decided I did want to continue having a usable browsing experience, and immediately swapped.