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[–] [email protected] 248 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

Yet another reason to switch to Firefox, or even better, a hardened fork like LibreWolf [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (27 children)

What functionality would I lose/gain if I switch from Firefox to Librewolf? I'm admittedly an amateur in the privacy space, and I've been pretty content with Firefox + Ublock and container tabs for different profiles, but I consistently get the issue that my browser fingerprint is pretty unique, and I have no idea how to or even if I can anonymize that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Librewolf is not associated with Mozilla and does not receive their primary source of funding from Google like Mozilla does. I really like having the same browser and browser synchronization between my phone and desktop/laptop, so librewolf is out for me. They have no interest or resources to build an Android version. Waterfox does at least have desktop / android option and takes things at least one small step further away from Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can enable Firefox sync in Librewolf, it works fine.

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