#LibreWolf

[wayfire-official]

Quote from the recent suggestion of adding a code of conduct to the librwolf project:

"Until then though, it should be clear: I'm very opposed to 'keeping things apolitical', because keeping things apolitical / trying to have a (false!) balance is taking sides and is political: it sides with the oppressors.

So LibreWolf should definitely be considered a 'very woke', and certainly quite political project, where queer- and transphobia, racism, ableism, antivax stuff, etc. are not tolerated. I'll gladly see a hundred racist people be pissed and leave if that makes only a single person from a disadvantaged / minority group feel safer."

Honestly really cool, might make the switch to librewolf, especially after the recent Firefox stuff.

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[definetly]

Mozilla Firefox has started sharing and selling your data and has now implemented a terms of service.

TL;DR: Mozilla has done the following to Firefox (edit)

They removed from their FAQ a statement that they'd never sell or collect your data. (So much for "never")

For the first time ever, they added a Terms of Use for Firefox which includes the ability to bar you from using Firefox for any reason by adding a Termination clause to their new Terms of Use.

Mozilla claims that there they're changing the language of 'selling of data' to avoid potential lawsuits due to "the broad and vague language of 'data selling'"; which could legitimately be true.

Alternatives

If you want a good alternative that doesn't do that, try out LibreWolf, a more private fork of Firefox, or LadyBird, which doesn't include clode from other browser.

Librewolf:

Ladybird

[leam1983]

On Firefox

They've just updated their Terms of Service as of March 1st, stripping away a few pro-privacy clauses and coyly dancing around the topic of integrating AI into the browser...

Look - the worst case is still Chrome and its more direct derivatives, like Edge. Firefox is extensively customizable, so whatever additional telemetry is collected is likely to be easily turned off in the Settings. So I wouldn't panic just yet.

If things do keep devolving, however, remember that LibreWolf exists - along with others like Brave - and don't forget to back up your passwords before making the switch, if you do decide to make it. LibreWolf, notably, isn't able to use Firefox Sync by default - for good reasons - and its onboard Password Manager is limited to local storage. LibreWolf's devs themselves recommend that you invest in a third-party password manager, for the sake of added safety.

[scaththefloof]

I am an absolute idiot

I use librewolf as my browser, and it is a browser highly focused on privacy. But I started seeing this pop up in my account sessions:

and google was alerting me that a Windows 10 pc was accessing my google account using firefox. and I was freaking out because I changed my password. And I still got it.

and then it finally hit me, privacy focused browser that is a fork of firefox. And it is from my city. So I signed out of all sessions and tried using only librewolf and it showed windows 10.

that's a cool feature of librewolf to scare the shit out of me. But also really I'm thinking it does it so that websites don't see you as an outcast. it makes you appear as a normal PC for privacy reasons. It's harder for websites to spy on what your Windows PC is doing, when your Windows PC is actually a Linux PC in disguise.

so thank you librewolf for scaring the shit out of me.

[posevr]

If you’re pissed at Mozilla

[c3s6]

Yo librewolf devs PLEASE make embedded scratch games work. Look at this example. i cant play spam-a-pam anymore. Sound works but no visuals.

[tungledotedu]

^ good reasons to move to librewolf

[noidretina]

Install Firefox, they said. It'll be fine, they said.

[hellsite-yano]

[ladypriere]

guys, what the FUCK happened to Librewolf? none of the extentions are working (not just uBlock. xkit and everything else are down too). did they break something in an update or is this just how it begins?

EDIT: okay, so my version was just woefully out of date (i didn't download the auto-updater like the genius i am), so that fixed everything

still got no idea what's happening with Brave not letting me log into youtube (or perhaps it's youtube not letting me in whilst on brave?). no matter how many times i delete cookies and even turning off ALL addons and shields, it won't let me

this cyberpunk hell future is actually lame as hell, dawg...

[arrowgriffon]

You too can become the ultimate anti corporation furry with these simple steps

Download Firefox

Download Waterfox

Download Librewolf

profit

OWO-ify your desktop today!

[jodjuya]

LibreWolf is giving me the shits. Damn thing is so superbly privacy-hardened that it loses all the positive utility of cookies along with the negative. Goodbye bathwater! Goodbye baby!

Gotta manually pre-approve cookie storage on a per-site basis, can't use dark theme because that compromises your privacy, can't even remember the window size because THAT somehow compromises your privacy too?

Who values their privacy THIS much???

[dizzyluc]

Now's the time to switch browsers

If you want to continue using adblock, now's the time to finally switch browsers. Google is now going to take off adblockers on their extension store, to make it much more difficult use adblockers on chromium browsers. (so anything that uses chromium pretty much is at risk) You can still download the extension (uBlock at least) manually via github but, because chromium is switching to Manifest V3, it will make using adblockers harder as well (for now at least) and even uBlock recommends switching to browsers like Firefox (I use Librewolf personally, most the time as it's the least tracking browser I know... although I have to switch to FF sometimes due to like 1% of web pages not loading right for some reason) The main reason to switch to something like Firefox is due to it being ran by Gecko, NOT Chromium. (and it's open sourced, which is why there are other browsers like Librewolf, Waterfox, and a few others) I'd say Firefox is fine to use if you mess with settings or find a setting file that removes the tracking they recently added the past few months. (that is CURRENTLY toggleable... have to wait if that will be removed) But yeah, if even something like the FBI is recommending to use adblock, and Google is trying to make that an impossibility... you know something is wrong. (as I believe I remember hearing, even having an ad be loaded on a website, can cause a virus? Don't quote me on that, never happened to me as I safely browse the web due to uBlock, but just making this post as an internet safety awareness post)

[makiruz]

Great new! There are non-Chromium browsers besides Firefox!

There's LibreWolf, Pale Moon, GNU IceCat, GNOME Web, etc.

Are they any good? Fuck if I know, but they're not Chromium

[aldmerisorcery]

The computer used to do something very basic & helpful...except when CLI was the norm, dialup made even accessing the Internet a painful experience and then the cornering of most web traffic by the same 4 social media sites & Google led to the enshittification we're all complaining about.

With AI and corporate dominance the Internet is now worse than ever. But it's also easier to fight back and circumvent than ever. You just need to change your own behaviour and habits. "But I don't want to do that, using another browser or search engine is way too much effort". This kind of lazy conservatism is why we are where we are. There was a time when users embraced change and did it frequently, the search engine wars in the 90's were wild.

"But people work a 9-5 and don't have time to change anything. I want to have my cake and eat it too". OK, have fun with the fruitless exercise of trying to come up with new ways to search queries that don't result in Google's AI slop. You don't need a computer science degree from MIT to take responsibility for aspects of your own online experience, everything has an idiot-proof GUI now.

Here's an alternative frontend for Google. It's European, privacy-focused and doesn't include trackers and AI slop: https://www.startpage.com/

Here's an alternative browser to Google Chrome, it's privacy-focused and comes with Ublock Origin already installed. Adjusting it is literally clicking a fucking slider on & off: https://librewolf.net/

And if anyone wants a VPN here's a fairly decent free one that abides by Switzerland's strict privacy laws. It comes with an email account and encrypted cloud storage too: https://proton.me/

See, look how much effort this is...