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Firefox gets all their operating funding from Google’s Search agreement. This prevents FF from protecting user privacy as it’d jeopardize their primary source o
by propogandist 4y ago
Firefox gets all their operating funding from Google’s Search agreement. This prevents FF from protecting user privacy as it’d jeopardize their primary source of income.
Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting.
It is the slow and uses a lot of RAM, but despite all these thing it’s the second most popular for a reason (kept alive as an easy way for Google Chrome to avoid anti-trust)
- ggrelet 4y agoCould you kindly provide a reliable guide about how to completely disable telemetry in FF?
- propogandist 4y agoThere are many such guides out there with each covering slightly different things, this may be a good starting point https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy
- Parae 4y ago> Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting. Have you heard of LibreWolf ? It is basically FF without the telemetry and with a lot of privacy and security features [1]. I've been using it for 2+ years and I'm very happy with it. The transition from FF to LibreWolf was seamless. [1]: https://librewolf.net/docs/features/ https://librewolf.net/docs/features/
- propogandist 4y agoIt’s been a while since I’ve looked for alternatives, and I remember coming across Ice Weasel and similar forks in the past, but they had slow security updates. I will take a look at Librewolf.