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LibreWolf?
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Yes, ubuntu is not that good in terms of privacy. But ubuntu is not the only linux distribution around. There are many, like linux mint, based on ubuntu, which usually remove the privacy-invading stuff. Also, i would recommend linux mint or manjaro to someone who is new to linux world.
Yes, firefox is not good in terms of privacy either. But, hardened firefox (firefox with privacy tweaks) is the best of the best in mordern browser category. No mordern browser even comes close to it. A project called librewolf attempts to deliver the user a firefox browser with privacy tweaks.
Yes, for some people, libreoffice dosen't work. But, you can use office.com, which is the web version of MS Office. With some help, you can also install older versions of ms office on linux. Libreoffice is getting improved day by day. It's just a matter of time when it can compete with ms office head to head.
Convincing most of the people about privacy is the hardest part. That dosen't mean we should give up. If you can convince one person, and that person convinces another, it will form a bigger chain of people. I think this fight for privacy is going to be long, but we can win this fight. People can do anything if they unite. Humanity had fought fights for rights like this, and they have always succeeded, no matter how long it took.
Containers are unique to Firefox, so if you want anything that relies on them, you'll need to use a Firefox-based browser (not a Chromium fork like Brave).
Also, those fingerprint-checking sites like the one you linked are inherently unreliable - the sample they compare your uniqueness to is based on others who have used the site before you, rather than users across the internet as a whole. People visiting eff.org are probably more privacy conscious than the average user, so the results will be biased.
If you are interested in anti-fingerprinting measures, check out the arkenfox project. Its main goal is to maintain a well-hardened Firefox configuration through the use of a user.js file, but the Github wiki there has lots of valuable information about anti-fingerprinting measures you can take.
There's also LibreWolf, which is basically a fork of Firefox that includes the arkenfox stuff already mostly set up.
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TL;DR - I would recommend configuring Firefox for security rather than trusting a Chromium fork out of the box. Especially if you want something like Containers, Firefox is unique in its hardenability. Check out the arkenfox wiki.
Ça fait un petit moment que ça existe, waterfox.
Des forks, il y en a plein mais ils sont pas tous mis à jour régulièrement comme FF.
Personnellement, j'aime bien librewolf.
There's an alternative to Firefox I've found: it's called LibreWolf. It hardens Firefox, as well as it removes Google SafeBrowsing and Pocket by default. It also sets DuckDuckGo by default, adds a Searx instance, etc.
You can find more changes/additions here: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/docs/
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ => installation => https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/install/, link to https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/appimage/-/releases – there.
The next release will include updateable (zsync) AppImages as well.
gpg .sig files are "standard", symplifying things more would reduce a signature's worth even further because it's just hard to make things easy and secure/verifyable – so a base amount of willingness is required for verification. Otherwise, it can be used without verification anyway, as you could say you trust the repo / gitlab, instead of, say, a distro's mantainer or whatever.
Including the signature in the AppImage is an option, but hard to include in the CI builds, as ohfp's key resides on a hardware token.
I think I understand where you're coming from, but considering there are AppImages, flatpaks on flathup, chocolatey etc. for win, AUR for Arch… I think it's much less of an issue as you seem to find it to be.
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/install/
There's a way to install on kali through .deb, appimages and flatpaks, all of them nicely documented on the link above.
I would love to use librewolf but I have trouble install it in my kali linux. I even go far as to follow direction on how to download librewolf. I prefer to use librewolf through my kali linux.
Which Chromium browsers are you using? Librewolf is a fork of Firefox
From their website https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
You can use open source derivatives of Firefox. Some like LibreWolf are dedicated to privacy and security.
I tried to switch to it, but it broke a banking site I use.
Also, DNS over HTTPS is genuinely a good thing, for the same reasons why HTTPS itself is a good thing
u/Narrow_ice2520,if you need a browser just to stay anonymous,listen to him.
The TOR browser was made with complete privacy in mind,and it's perfect for lurking around the web.
All the TOR browsers have the same fingerprint,and the TOR network will hide your IP.
If you need a browser for signing up and logging in on sites,you can choose LibreWolf and UngoogledChromium
Privacy summary for both Brave and Firefox:
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html
LibreWolf is what I use and recommend for privacy.
I am not sure, but many of the users here can help you out a ton! The browser of choice, at least for me, is LibreWolf because it is Firefox, minus Mozilla, and you can get great privacy with it.
The youtube channel Techlore aims to help out with privacy without much bias at all. He does not mention everything though, I have not heard of Librewolf on his channel, nor have I heard anything about browsing YT privately (hint: Invidious is really cool, I use it to browse and then watch a vid I found in VLC but FreeTube is good, I hear)
Whilw privacy is a gigantic issue, people on this sub certaintly know how to get better privacy.
Have a good day :D
I think you mean "derivatives"? Librewolf is the only other Firefox fork I use. From what I've gathered by looking through the project's Gitlab, it downloads the Firefox source code then applies 23 patches to remove syncing/telemetry/ads then hardens by using arkenfox’s user.js and pyllyukko’s user.js, and installs uBlock Origin by default.
Interesting . . . I was thinking that too! Except that FF has such a small market share (as done Linux, alas) that it hardly seems worth it. But who knows. Had a look at this?: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Librewolf is a fork of firefox with a bunch of privacy settings enabled by default, so you don't have to do it yourself. For example, WebRTC is disabled, privacy.resistfingerprinting is enabled, etc. https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Check out LibreWolf
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
It's basically Firefox but they have gone through the trouble of making sure all the privacy invading "features" are turned off or flat out disabled.
Firefox by default does not do a good job of guarding your privacy.
Depending on what about Firefox's direction you dont like, you might wanna take a liok on Librewolf. It is a hardened version of Firefox, but its not affiliated with Mozilla. https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Firefox + hardening, or librewolf, which is based on firefox but hardened by default.
Or ungoogled chromium if u must have chromes design.
Firefox with properly configured Multi-Account Containers should mean you only really need 1 browser. Firefox also has profiles, so you can have a login profile and a non-login profile. The will effectively operate as 2 different browsers (2 separate instances of Firefox)
Bonus points: go with the LibreWolf fork of firefox for added security and privacy.
>They wont bother until people notice they are misleading people who think its private by default
u/Old-Doughnut u/Frances331
But people don't have a choice. I mean besides Firefox there's Chrome but that's even more worse. I don't understand the approach Librewolf has taken. I mean if you are an Arch user you have to install it from AUR but if you are a Debian/Ubuntu user I am not sure how to install it. I am paranoid about security so I rarely install anything outside of the official repos but still if Librewolf creates a PPA and mentions it on their official homepage I will think about trusting it. This is their official page .
So as a Lubuntu user I am not sure how I am suppose to install Librewolf. As you know if your browser is your main interface to the Internet so the Librewolf team must make some effort to convince the Ubuntu team so that they add Librewolf to their official repos. That way the Ubuntu devs too will look at their code which will increase the legitimacy even more.
Idk about FF, but you can build the privacy fork, Librewolf, from source. It's essentially hardened firefox (e.g uBlock Origin is built in, bunch of other privacy tweaks) without telemetry.
Website: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
"Installation" on website leads here: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community
LibreWolf's documentation claimed that it was a fork of Firefox with the optimizations and security of user.js files from both arkenfox and pyllyukko built in. I see now that this has been changed to a thanks to pyllyukko and a section clarifying that they are not directly using arkenfox, but "endeavor to keep up to date with" Arkenfox. No idea what that means.
Also, you should not trust sites like that. Panopticlick can only compare your browser profile with other people who have used Panopticlick, which is a tiny and specific corner of the internet at large. The only reason Librewolf scores better on Panopticlick is because a large number of people have checked default Librewolf, and almost nobody has checked Firefox with the exact set of 8 addons you were using at the time. This is better explained in Arkenfox's wiki; hopefully you can understand what they've said if not me.
I am sorry for not keeping my information up to date; however, I still recommend to anyone that they install normal Firefox, then apply the arkenfox user.js, then customize it as little as possible to make it work for their specific use case.
Have you tried Firefox kin LibreWolf or FireDragon (KDE)
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io
https://github.com/dr460nf1r3/firedragon-browser
Fire dragon is interesting as it also uses SearX by default
Awesome, glad you were able to install it. Yea I get that you didn't google.
I use Duck Duck go for search and Firefox for browser. I also use a more secured browser called LibreWolf a hardened fork of Firefox.
Probably a great thing that it happened, now you switched to a better Browser that's backed by the linux community. If you want to go further, because of privacy and data collection, checkout LibreWolf a hardened fork of Firefox.
tb uso, especialmente pq gosto mais dos containers do que da forma como é feito nos chromium based.
mas como digo, não gosto de colocar tudo no mesmo cesto.
para além disso prefiro a versão LibreWolf Browser
If I understand you correctly, you are on Debian (non-SID) or Ubuntu?
If so: yep, that's still an open issue – we currently only have a repo build on / for Debian SID. It's a much requested "feature" to also provide builds for Ubuntu (and maybe even stable Debian) – we'll hopefully get to this soon.
It's already noted with the installation instructions on https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/install/, but it would, of course, be preferable if this wasn't even an issue at all ^^
Firefox. And with Firefox being open source, there are multiple forks of it focused on privacy. My favorite is LibreWolf, which is just latest version of Firefox but compiled with telemetry and various bloat removed, and with privacy-focused settings out of the box. Really great balance between usability and privacy/security.
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To me Firefox is smooth on any systems, maybe look into LibreWolf it's based on Firefox without pocket and other things that bloats up Firefox. https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/install/
LibreWold is Firefox with Mozilla Telemetry stripped and all that trendy Mozilla garbage. It's not perfect but Ive been using it as my main for a few months now and only need to use a alt for special cases.
I highly recommend people know about it
Wrong.. read the docs and see what its purpose is because it seems you're misunderstanding what the browser is for: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/docs/
'Fuckups', or disliked features, on the other hand, are completely subjective. You may not personally like 'View image' being replaced with 'Open image in new tab', but another person doesn't mind it.
As far as non bloated goes, been looking for a while, but nothing has been worth all the compromises so far. Qutebrower is the closest one for me.
It has some growing pains, but I find LibreWolf to be a good Firefox fork. (LW turns off Mozilla/Firefox Telemetry and Tracking and removes dumb features like Pocket, Hello, and whatever. Mozilla has a track-record like Google when it comes to killing good things so some of us avoid them.)
If you are excited about Firefox's evolution, you should keep an eye on LibreWolf:
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
It's a FF fork aimed at protecting user's privacy while browsing the web.
It's basically hardened firefox without firefox telemetry or something like that. Very good browser if you are into privacy it's open source and community driven browser, unlike many others it's use latest firefox and very fast to update as far as I know for example it oonly took couple days to update firefox 86. unfortunately windows release is just recentyly so expect bug
Mozilla has a SJW infestation, its why the company's development has slowed down.
Waterfox is probably your best bet. LibreWolf is a new option and Comodo Ice Dragon is basically a re-skin with more security features.
Palemoon has issues with ad-blockers so many of us stopped recommending them.