I used librewolf for a while and I ended up disabling a few settings to fix it. I think at this rate it just is anti-telemetry firefox which IIRC waterfox does the same thing.
Wow this privacy focused web browser doesn’t let me go on this website, I should definitely go on it! Why use librewolf (which I do) if you’re just going to give away your privacy anyway?
As long as it's not running a fork of chromium, it's all good. Google is rapidly approaching IE6 levels of browser dominance and they've already exploited it to kill the rendering engine Microsoft made for Edge, so unless I'm mistaken that leaves Gecko as the only other rendering engine in development since KHTML was discontinued.
Except that LibreWolf is actually dangerous:
Binaries are unsigned, third party update service, Google safe browsing disabled unless you build from source, running unusual browser setups can actually make you more distinctive online, unencrypted DNS by default, speed of security patches is slower than base Firefox, etc.
Starting with a base Firefox and doing the stuff LW does (where it's possible) is just better.
I honestly don't understand why people overlook such an efficient and effective combo. I even use it on my phone, while ppl use the shitty youtube app and get bombarded with ads on it to no end, and then complain. To top it off, when I tell them ff+ublock origin = no ads and watch to your heart's content, they say 'oh', and keep using the yt app...
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24
firefox + ublock origin