How to Strengthen Firefox Privacy and Security in 2023 (privacysavvy.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Firefox is among the most secure mainstream browsers. Still, there are some loose ends. I recently stumbled upon this post that features Firefox privacy recommendations and tweaks to strengthen Mozilla browser security.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Article reading time: 43 minutes

Summarised reading time: 1 minute (might have skipped over some parts)

Disable telemetry to prevent Firefox from sending usage data to Mozilla
Change your default search engine to a more privacy-friendly one, such as DuckDuckGo or Startpage
Enable tracking protection to block third-party trackers by default
Turn on the Do Not Track Protection to request websites not to track your browsing behavior
Disable the WebRTC to prevent your IP address from being leaked
Remove DRM to avoid installing proprietary software that may compromise your privacy
Install some recommended security add-ons, such as:
- uBlock Origin to block ads and malware domains
- Privacy Badger to block invisible trackers and learn from your browsing behavior
- HTTPS Everywhere to force websites to use secure HTTPS connections
- No Script to block scripts from untrusted domains
- uMatrix to control the requests that your browser makes

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

it's also quite wrong:

DNT requests can be ignored and are an additional data point to identify you (although the recent LinkedIn ruling could be a light in a tunnel)
Privacy Badger doesn't do anything uBlock Origin doesn't
HTTPS Everywhere isn't needed since the option is now built into Firefox itself
you can block scripts with uBO, no need for NoScript
uMatrix has been deprecated

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Can you elaborate on the "umatrix has been deprecated"?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Development of uMatrix has been discontinued for quite a while. The extension works totally fine though, and in my opinion it provides vastly superior UI for managing permissions than anything else I know.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I was wondering since it was working fine as you said. But in the long run I will have to look for an alternative I guess...

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