LibreWolf is my main now.
Firefox, I hope you recover from “paying CEO millions”. It sounds like a fatal condition. #WebBrowsers #Firefox #LibreWolf
By an amusing coincidence, I’ve also switched to LibreWolf today… from Chrome, because they finally managed to kill uBlock. So I guess I’ve managed to skip the whole Mozilla debacle.
From the time I started thinking about it around the date of jwz’s “Mozilla is an advertising company now” post, it took me 8 months to fully switch to librewolf. I feel like a windows user who was slow to move to linux.
@kbal@fedia.io Ideally, we wouldn’t have needed to move. But capitalist dipshits always find a way to make us do things that inconvenience us out of necessity.
These are the alternatives I’ve picked so far …Ios = Snowhaze, linux mint os = pale moon, and windows = waterfox. I use librewolf also but it’s default of delete everything and sign you out of sign ins isn’t useful for every scenario.
@Coldgoron@lemm.ee It took a while, and I hate that it enforces light themes because somehow default dark themes make surfing less secure 🙄
But after forcing myself to use it, I have more or less set everything up for the future success. And not having to go through the settings removing Google search from default is already worth the hassle.
default dark themes make surfing less secure
Not less secure per se, but less anonymous. Default dark mode reports your preference to websites and analytics, so it ends up being something that makes you different.
Same reason privacy browsers use a default resolution and won’t let you stretch websites bigger if you have a huge monitor, keeping a border instead…
The idea is to devalue tracking attempts by making the results a big nothing burger of more of the same. A herd of clones.
@PassingThrough@lemm.ee Yeah. I get it. But to turn off the feature entirely in the browser to even do that is pretty annoying.
I should have the freedom to choose to have dark themes on.
Fair, and this is why I hesitate to recommend LibreWolf as a true alternative to Firefox. It wasn’t meant to be the common man’s general browser. It was flavored with a privacy goal in mind and that’s what it does.
It’s a half-step toward recommending someone use Tor browser as a daily driver. Which wouldn’t work out very well. But it’s quite private and anonymous!
There just wasn’t a need/enough funding or drive for another “good enough” browser like Firefox, the answer for that was Firefox. Everyone else is off one deep end or another.
@PassingThrough@lemm.ee Also, what I am doing is probably even worse for security. I am literally installing add-ons just to get dark theme back because I don’t want to be uncomfortable reading my screen.
So much theory crafting that ends up being just annoying and useless. Reminds me of that guy who said sorry for forcing symbols and special characters on passwords because he didn’t understand probability theory.
You can change that in settings, either altogether or even add site by site exceptions to preserve your logins.
That’s good to know.
