I finally understand what Stallman was talking about. Users of nonfree software are slaves.
• Even Chromium phones home to Google • Alternative Chromium forks like Brave, Iridium, or ungoogled-chromium all have unique fingerprints as non-mainstream browsers. This defeats the purpose of using them. Also you aren't auditing the binary builds of these, which are done by anonymous randoms in their free time. • You de facto can't compile your own Chromium or maintain your own fork. Besides the cognitive time investment, it would take days to compile, discouraging you from rebasing and re-compiling to apply the latest security updates. • Mozilla allows you to run a self-hosted sync server, if you really need bookmark/settings syncing. • Chromium having a faster JavaScript engine is largely irrelevant since a properly paranoid user would block most JavaScript. • I'd gladly pay for better hardware to run inefficient Firefox if it means being less vulnerable to surveillance.
Also I think nowadays that your choice of browser is more important than your choice of OS. A Google Chrome user on Tails is less free than a Firefox (TOR style hardened) user on macOS or Windows. Change my mind.
oh and this that also applies to ff - and you're contradicting your own claim that free software users are automatically free
Mason Martin
Even Firefox phones home to Mozilla. Firefox has a 5% market share and by default also has a pretty unique fingerprint panopticlick.eff.org Did you compile Firefox from source? Anyone who knows how to do this would probably rather sync the directory.
I'd rather use FF than Chrom(?:e|ium) but they're both very close in terms of trashitude.
No, but as a mainstream distribution, there are many eyes on it. If Mozilla were distributing binaries that didn't checksum the same as what other package maintainers compiled, someone would call them out on it. No one knows with these off-brand forks that only a couple people on the planet take the time to compile. >ff also phones home...a lot: spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html I turned off all that shit in about:config. Just follow the same modifications that Tor Browser did. Private sector advertising companies aren't the only ones to be afraid of.
Nathan Harris
chromium is free software tho
Cameron Peterson
Sorry kiddo, but you jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Hunter Gonzalez
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Wyatt Bailey
Use GNU-Icecat
Henry Scott
This
Connor Peterson
owo doomr (squishes your hoodie) ^w^
Gavin Flores
These.
Kevin Gomez
Mozilla is literally paid by Google, you idiot.
Hunter Miller
Imagine taking a figurative scalpel to your intellect to come to very basic conclusions. Maybe if you stopped doing drugs you'd have got it in the first place.
I'm with you, OP, despite your inherent gayness. And anyone smart enough to know we're right can find a great set of FF about:config tweaks here, to make your browser much safer than iceweasel or any other fagatronics: privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config
Joseph Miller
are you the same guy that made this post on /prog/?
Chase Perez
the green hat hackers tried to warn you drug fag now your mind has been pwned by the html jew.
Christopher Hall
Right now, their main source of income is from Yahoo.
Carson Reed
Why did you switch to firefox instead of Tor Browser? Why do you care about privacy and shit if you don't use Tor network?
Tor Browser is not only about about:config, it also modifies code of browser. Why won't you just use Tor Browser?
Brody Johnson
Tor Browser is forked from Firefox. It is a matter of convenience. You can get the same result by configuring a Tor connection with Firefox.
Adrian Sanchez
no, you cannot. changing about:config won't do shit. Tor Browser makes that every different website uses separate Tor circuit, but resources and scripts from external domains use same circuit that this tab uses. So if you open 8ch tabs, everything on that page (including external ads) will use same circuit, but if you open another tab with 4ch, it will use different circuit for that tab (and all external shit). How do you want to achieve that with your firefox?
your shitty hacked firefox will have unique behaviour and will be fingerprinted
You haven't even read the link yourself. They raised a bug and it was patched in 45.
Ethan Cook
The Tor browser modifies parts of Firefox' source code. In fact, Project Fusion is all about bringing the functionality added by the Tor Browser to mainstream Firefox. Stuff like site isolation, fingerprint resistance, canvas spoofing, etcetera.
Wouldn't it be wiser to remove the "functionality" added to Firefox from Tor Browser?
Nolan Stewart
Well. I'm convinced!
Michael James
What's wrong with it? Genuinely curious.
Easton Campbell
Address the arguments or fuck off, shillanon.
Jacob Lewis
glad cuteposting is still alive and well
what said. Firefox is not innocent either.. Firefox has built-in telemetry. This can to some extent be disabled by the user, through the micromanagement of dozens upon dozens of about:config and user.js values. Firefox is also notorious for slipping in stuff behind users' backs. Never forget this. itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/ ghacks.net/2017/10/06/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-cliqz-experiment-with-data-collecting/ It would seem that Moz://a doesn't have any concept of 'opt-in'. If they're willing to do this shit without telling users, what makes you think they won't silently revert your config changes and pass it off as one of their 'experiments'? Furthermore, they actively analyze the source code of extensions for any icky 'problematic' words that might show up in there. github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/blob/master/src/badwords.json Long story short, Firefox is botnet too. The only acceptable solution is one of the privacy-centered forks of FF or Chromium.
That shit is ideological at best, you constantly keeping track and tinkering with it you are putting yourself under heavier psychological burden than it benefits you. Web is doomed and you're doomed if you any way rely on it. Half of the shit is hosted on AWS anyway.
t. used to do everything from umatrix, decentraleyes disabled js, faked user.navigator object, disabled canvas and webrtc, crippled about:config etc. realizing that aspects of it all gives me extra-unique fingerprint among making every new website usable maybe after 30 secs of tinkering if at all and that tcp/ip fingerprint still points, random selection of freetard system fonts and resolution of choice still points to my machine and OS
The last bastion of the person who lost the argument.
Levi Collins
The last bastion of the person who lost the argument.
Jayden Hall
Mozilla, by not including uBlock/uMatrix/Decentraleyes/etc in the browser even though those things are basic necessities in 2019.
Parker Sullivan
It's not even true anymore. Can't tell any difference on R5 1600x.
Jordan Davis
Install from source or xpi download, lol. Is it that hard?
Colton King
No one. And no one is forcing me to use crapware like Firefox, so I'm not.
Aiden Garcia
most of the stuff that I actually use often works fine after a single (one time) configuration. everything else can suck my dick. if someone's got a problem with me they also are welcome to suck my dick.
Parker Taylor
macOS or Windows is the bigger zashquar. using Chrome on Tails is also utterly unreal. anyone who even knows that Tails exists at all is extremely unlikely to ever try that combination. LOL
Charles Garcia
I do, "LOL". You're missing the point. I don't care about AMO. I care about what it represents in its current form. I care that Mozilla will gladly front-page addons for pornography sites and even allow addons for snuff sites without raising an eyebrow, but God help you if your code contains "// interact with the bullshit api"; it'll get flagged and then manually rejected until a "fix" is pushed. I care that a few times a year, Firefox gets updated with unnecessary or even user-hostile "features" you have to disable in about:config. I care that the devs seem unwilling to implement anything that actually enhances your experience or privacy, or even just APIs that would allow addon makers to provide those facilities (without hacks). The point is that Mozilla has become an unserious organization and is unfortunately left in charge of a tool that is critical for many people, and one that's the only real competition to Chrome. I can't wait for the entire tech industry to collapse under its own weight.
Julian Hall
No, because Mozilla has been adding some pretty neat stuff to FF lately. Unnecessary stuff like Pocket, Sync, Send and the Screenshot tools are special addons that can be removed from For (and any other fork) with a couple of about:config toggles or a couple of compiler flags.
Tyler Jackson
We 4cuck now. Not surprising this would happen after the NZ attack firecuck and any mainstream browser are uniquely fingerprintable for all users. the only way around this is to use something like Tor Browser
It's time for you to shut the fuck up and go back to reddit. Just because you think "someone will notice if they do anything bad!" doesn't make it true.
Evan Miller
daily reminder that optional bloat is still bloat (and has all the same effects)
Noah Brooks
you have never used Gentoo, have you? It takes around 4 to less than 1 hour(s) in modern hardware.
wtf
SIEG HEIL quads of truth
Elijah Clark
The last bastion of the person who lost the argument.
Brandon Ross
The last bastion of the person who lost the argument.
Austin Walker
The last bastion of the person who lost the argument.
Isaac Williams
ITT: no arguments
Jackson Peterson
Scroll up and look at the fag who started it. Protip: Browser threads should be banned
Elijah Long
Why should I take advice from you seriously?
Isaiah Rivera
You should listen him as he speaks the truth. Web is doomed. Now fuck off nigger.
Christian Phillips
Eventually you will learn the sum known to equal the most expensive price..
It will be too late for you then.
Zachary Thomas
And it takes 1 second to compile Links on this 13 year old laptop.
Parker Morris
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Blake Reed
It's a good site, retard.
Oliver Foster
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Jayden Cruz
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
David Baker
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Kevin Edwards
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Adam Adams
Where are all these shills coming from?
Michael Walker
DAILY REMINDER THAT BRENTON TARRANT WAS A MASONIC JEWISH/ZIONIST PSYOPS
Gabriel Mitchell
This is fucking outrageous. Fuck the jews and everyone who let this happen.
