• io@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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    9 days ago

    firefox is really heavy on telemetry and forcing ai down your throat in my experience, librewolf is firefox without all that and preconfigured strict privacy settings however fingerprinting is still a problem

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      9 days ago

      Apparently sandboxing helps a lot with that. Noticed I get cloudflare prompts more often on random news sites than with firefox, so presumably they assume I might be a bot because I’m coming to their domain without an instantly readable fingerprint.

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        8 days ago

        that’s my experience as well, but i don’t see it necessarily as a good sign.

        Blocking all fingerprint indicator readouts is itself a fingerprint.

        It’s like being the only person who is going into the shop with a ski mask on.

        Sure no one can see your face but you are less likely to be served and you are recognizable as the person with the ski mask on.