Uninstall Chrome.

[kaidenshi@exquisite.social]

@mhoye @mhcat So from what I gather, it's pretty much what I already knew: It's upstream Firefox with hardening and privacy focused changes, with community testing. It's not a funded effort, it's a community effort to improve security and privacy on the notoriously insecure and privacy-eroding Firefox. It makes sense that they rely on community testing and feedback as they are not a huge corporation with funding to do that themselves. I can't find fault with that; there are countless successful and useful projects out there in a similar position and if we faulted them all for lack of paid personnel we wouldn't have the open source ecosystem we all enjoy.

I get why someone would be cautious about a project like Librewolf; I was myself when I first heard of it but the fact is that it's simply a modified Firefox where all of the changes are positive and beneficial, if a bit heavy-handed in the name of security and privacy. I recently explored building it from source on OpenBSD and had the opportunity to compare changes in the source to upstream, and while I'm not a developer by trade I do have a little experience with coding and I never saw anything malicious or harmful. Then again, I am one person and it's a huge project.

Still, I'm put off by your statement "...librewolf is a misguided spite-fork...", that sounds deeply personal and emotional. I try not to let one person's negative interaction with another person or project color my viewpoint; if they have attacked you or otherwise acted negatively towards you I can understand your opinion, but I can't share it as that has not been my experience at all.

[technomancy@hey.hagelb.org]

@Footle @mhoye @mhcat think it's more like

• install Firefox
• Uncheck the AI pref
• No really uncheck all the AI prefs
• Uncheck the advertising ones too
• Set a monthly reminder to uncheck them all again later, and uncheck whatever new ones got added since

(still way better than Chrome obvs)

[dacmot@sunny.garden]

@sol_hsa edge

May I recommend something less intrusive and non-consensual, yet, in my admittedly narrow personal experience, very compatible?

@mhoye

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@elebertus But when you can show them what adblocked internet looks like, it's like giving them clean running water for the first time.

[aerique@genart.social]

@mhoye It's an acquired taste but also try to get used to using @noscript.

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@aerique @noscript Noscript is a godsend on low-resource machines.

I've also got an extensive pile of uBlock bonus content here - gist.github.com/mhoye/dcc2c2febeba230ca7ceb25c970390a1 - that makes life a lot more pleasant.

[hans@mastodon.hansup.be]

@mhoye or Vivaldi? Chrome based but AI free.

[mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca]

@mhoye I've never understood why so any people switched to Chrome in the first place. I've been using Firefox consistently since the 90s on my personal devices.

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@mpjgregoire There was a period of a few years there when literally everyone who did a Google search was given a popup to download and install Chrome, with the claim that it was a faster browser.

(And in truth for a long time it was. Firefox was very complacent for a long time.)

[joshisanonymous@h4.io]

@mhoye @mpjgregoire Speed was why I used it for a while. I stopped when they decided to undermine adblockers.

[tasket@infosec.exchange]

@mhoye And what are users going to do about Mozilla's "anonymized" ad tracking?

Waterfox and Librewolf are preferable.