Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled

Re:Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled by hayst4ck on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:16PM (#39172009)

That does sound appealing, but I don't see any information on who owns or maintains it.

You click "@ohfp" and it leads you to an incredibly empty github-ish thing with 7 total followers? That is not a good sign at all.

"About us" is completely missing, and that is extremely important to me.

I would need a bit more trust, maybe even something like EFFs blessing, to use this.

If you were being skeptical, would you trust them? Why?

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Re:Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled by leafstrat on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:32PM (#39172096)

You're right to be apprehensive and skeptical, most of the Firefox forks leave a lot to be desired. Usually maintained by anonymous randoms that most likely aren't experts on the technology. That's why I would instead recommend the Mullvad browser which is also a Firefox fork, but is being maintained by a profitable company with reputable engineers. Whose main product focuses around protecting your privacy and securing you.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

The only potential issue with it is that it might be TOO good at anonymizing you, to the point that you set off security measures, ala Cloudflare, simply by NOT leaking any juicy data to identify you.

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