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0 points_red8y ago0 comments

I hate the fact that Firefox increasingly makes me jump through all sorts of hoops to find all the hidden options to turn off their various spyware attempts. Its the Win10 of browsers...

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bigbugbag8y ago

There's an extension for that called privacy settings[1] it exposes all the settings in one easy place.

I also recommend waterfox instead of firefox.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-setti... [2]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

teddyfrozevelt8y ago

Going through your browser settings really is quite the hoop.

_redOP8y ago

Yeah, its so intuitive for the average person to type: about:config in address bar and scroll through hundreds of oddly named parameters to turn off spyware.

Comments like yours are illustrative of a certain mindset. When you encounter the complexity of domains you are not intimately familiar with (court system, law, finance, etc), and those complexities are designed specifically to make it hard for you to protect yourself, I'm sure you are just as understanding as you are now.

bwat498y ago

You're being hyperbolic, you don't need to go into about:config.

It's right in the main browser settings, under the Privacy and Security section where one would expect settings like this to be

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mynewtb8y ago

How are you supposed to do turn the defaults to a reasonable level of privacy without launching Firefox once though?

takeda8y ago

I remember it was asking if I want participate in studies when I installed FF for the first time.

linkmotif8y ago

It is.

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