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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe.. Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I'll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true...

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[–] RmDebArc_5 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Their privacy is better than regular Firefox due to disabling telemetry etc, but librewolf does way more to protect against fingerprinting. The browser itself is quite good, although it shows that it’s in early development. Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

Doesn't this only make sense if it is off by default on that browser? I assume if it is on by default, most people will just keep it on, thus making users of that browser that turn it off stand out more. No?

[–] RmDebArc_5 6 points 2 months ago

Firefox doesn’t enable it by default, so if you turn it of any chance of being perceived as just another Firefox user is gone. It may not be a measurable difference but as basically no site respects it and those that do aren’t a big problem in the first place it doesn’t matter all that much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

cheers, was intrigued if this was an alternative for LibreWolf. Hope it'll come around!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Their* privacy