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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption (jlai.lu)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I believe LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption. Most options are either : all or nothing. No in-between.

Sadly, I believe the default settings are too strict and will slow down adoption by the mass, which would in term bring a better anonymity set.

It's not a great alternative to Firefox because LibreWolf is just not usable for the daily user: no DRM, no cookies, no history, websites that break... The browser should let the user choose:

Maximum compatibility (more tracking)
Mid-option (like a modded firefox but without the annoyances like cookies not being stored, having a fixed size, or forced light-mode/timezone)
Best privacy (pretty much the current mode)

I find myself forced to edit the default settings which is a huge privacy/fingerprinting risk. If we create 'settings groups', yes, the privacy will be hurt, but at least we will be more in each group.

What do you think about this?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t care about adoption line go up, and I agree with Mozilla’s founder that adding DRM to Firefox was Mozilla’s original sin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

At the end of the day, I just want a better for privacy browser than Firefox and Brave, without having to fight with it so it works the way I want it to

The defaults and strict options just makes me feel like it's not a user-friendly browser. It doesn't let me have the browser I want to use, but rather someone else's vision of the browser

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

Yes, it is someone else’s vision of a browser, and evidently wasn’t made for users like you. As the saying goes, what do you want for nothing, your money back?