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Does anyone here not opt out of the telemetry data that Firefox collects by default? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I am just curious because I had it off for a long time but have recently started to opt back in because I am too lazy to report every single bug I encounter when browsing the web but I do want to see Mozilla improve Firefox.

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[+] jet@hackertalks.com -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't. I stopped fiddling with firefox long ago. The fact they kept rolling out privacy hostile features made them similar to chrome from my perspective. So I just used chrome for a few years as it was faster. In the last two years I got into Arkenfox and did the necessary for that, but it always felt to time intensesive, too easy to make a mistake. Now that mullvad-browser is available I use that as my daily driver.

I have vanilla Firefox installed but I don't mess with the settings and I barely use it. It's mostly a backup. Mozzilla corporation lost my faith a long time ago.

Mullvad browser is my go to for web browsing. I know they are not going to release some new data leaking feature overnight that I have to scramble to fix.

Degoogled Chrome with different user profiles is where I log into services. (A profile for aws, cloudflare, Lemmy, power company, water, etc). I know Firefox containers are nice, but they don't separate accounts as distinctly to my liking . I know Firefox also has multiple profiles functionality but the UI is very clunky and just harder to use then chrome profiles.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You use Mullvad browser as your daily driver?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. 100%. When I'm browsing the internet I don't log into anything. Mullvad browser is perfect for that. On Mac and Linux this is very easy to do. You can set it as your default browser.

On Windows you have to go through some hoops to set mullvad that as your default browser, but I'm sure the team is going to come out with an official solution

If there's something going to be logging into recurrently then I use un Google to Chrome and make a specific profile for that sit

[–] Newchair@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does it compare to librewolf?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mullvad browser

automatic updates
follows upstream patches quickly
based on Tor browser bundle, includes arkenfox features

** This means the browser works really hard not to write any state to storage

** it tries to be very ephemeral

Librewolf:

manual updates
A bit slower to patch
based on upstream Firefox, but includes arkenfox features

Both are good choices.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 year ago

I'm confused by the downvotes.

Mullvad Browser, Tor Browser, Arkenfox .. Are all Firefox forks. Just without telemetry