Why Firefox is the best browser for privacy and how to configure things properly (see change log)
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2020
- In this episode, we explore why Firefox is the best browser for privacy and how to configure things properly.
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⚠️ 6:40 “Only in Private Windows” should be set to “In all windows”
Some time ago I read a comment that said: Chrome is Google's browser, Edge is Microsoft's browser, Firefox is our browser
It should be their official mantra
Why there is Soviet anthem playing?
@@HafifSyukra Because Firefox is made by the community to the community XD
Firefox (and the Gecko rendering engine) is actually the only real alternative to Chrome these days. Because while you do have a few alternatives in Edge, Brave, Opera and Safari they are all using the same rendering engine (Blink) as Chrome under the hood.
For that reason Firefox is more important than ever.
(Technically Safari is using a different rendering engine, WebKit, but that essentially an old version of Blink.)
@@marcusbrsp very helpful thx... was considering brave vs FF
I've been using Firefox since it was first launched. It's all I need in to browse the Internet on Windows, Linux or macOS.
我也用火狐浏览器，他这个版本插件差一个翻译的，让我放弃这个版本，还是下载普通版本，我是移动用户
I use either TOR or Brave
I just hope they stay focused on the browser and now sjw crap
ruclips.net/video/eatIzqwB2dA/видео.html
Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life.
(John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Add me on tik tok man
I use this on all of my computers now. My productivity has gone up drastically by not having all of this junk I have to skim through. Thank you so much!
How does firefox wit your recommendations compare to using the tor browser?
Whenever I have a new computer or after resetting an old one the first thing I do is update it. The second thing is install Firefox.
Great process Abdulai. I have to publish an episode on updates. Thanks for sharing!
Fortunately now new Win10 machines come with Edge so sure no need or reason to install something else.
@@Drew1903SG LOL
@@Drew1903SG LMAO
@@clocked0 Both of you laughing out of ignorance or being ostriches. Doesn't alter what was said as fact.
I'm clueless and your commentating actually gave me a great feel and understanding of the process. Thanks a lot
The inability to disable auto-play alone on chrome was enough reason to completely change everything over to firefox. Firefox is just better in so many ways
@Stephen P Nope
Hey Sun, I accidently reset my firefox. i returned to this video and set it up again. So what i want to say is THANK YOU! Your old video is still alive and important!
I already know this, I just came to benefit this video for the algorithm
IF you want to protect your privacy, Get rid of FB.! PERIOD.
Also google
@@reocam8918 we need and use google for just about everything tho
Or run it in a different browser with an isolated profile (a containerized ssb).
Google, Twitter, Facebook,Ig ,Whats App. ALL of them.
Got rid of FB, got rid of Chrome, got rid of Google Search, now working on getting rid of Gmail and Google apps.
thanks for this video helps a lot , am gonna follow these steps and get myself secured, thank you again, keep up the good work!
Pleasure, more episodes coming 🤓
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Thanks for taking the time Sun, valued and appreciated.
Pleasure, glad these guides are helping others. 🤓
Thanks. Stumbled across your channel and am enjoying the security centric content. Keep it coming. 😊
Dude, I don't understand why this video does not have more likes, but I've contributed with mine and I just subscribed to your channel because of it. It is a fantastic video. I just followed your instructions and now I feel a lot more safe to browse. Thank you!
Thanks for the push Adrian. I guess the channel is slowly taking off. 🤓
Thank you very much! I definetly put some of these settings on my firefox too, and i think it's a good way, to browse like this :)
This is better chrome.com
@@randomuser4838 not for privacy
I am a mature person and I really am grateful that I found your videos. I appreciate your tips and setting up the dialogue boxes; Security, sync, cookies etc. I do not enjoy feeling techie uneducated. Thank you.
Glad to hear this content is helping others learn about privacy 😊
I just stumbled on your channel and I am hooked already subscribed and binge watching your videos. I've been using Firefox as a second to Safari (bc of some sites compatibility) for years and never knew most of this. I just made the switch and its now my default browser in all my devices.
Welcome back to Firefox. 🤓
Good stuff, nice descriptions. I've used Firefox Forever since when IE was slow, as they and others improved I've stuck with Firefox. I knew of many of these and others and agree with your points like passwords and synchronizing. I tried Chrome but didn't like being tied to the mother ship so I use Chromium if absolutely needed, but Firefox on Linux has been fine for all but a couple website apps. Thanks for the https and other tips.
I used it for years but have no idea if the maximise / minimize the search windows issues will be fixed in future releases.
"Enable DNS Over HTTPS" is automatically set now. Go Firefox!
Thx for the great tutorial btw.
I really appreciate this video! I like how thorough it is, and the number of reasons you give for using Firefox over web browsers. Do you have any recommendations for password managers ? or a video on them?
Hey Moses, have a look at ruclips.net/video/uJBgb8XJoA8/видео.html. I have published two episodes on password managers. 🤓
Thanks SO much for ALL of the videos you have been posting. I'm in IT and know all these things but out of convenience (Chrome IS fast and Mac OS Key Chain is SO convenient) I've let my privacy guard down a bit. These videos have made me take a new course entirely. Lock it down ... don't give big data a thing - or at least make them work harder for it ! Thank you again.
After years of using Chrome I switched to Firefox and now I can say it's the best switch I've ever made.
Using Firefox with privacy settings then using tor when you really want to be private is very cool beans
Can't believe I'm finding this video so late but thank you so much for all the info!!
Awesum tutorial and will certainly be forwarding link to everyone i know. Loved everything about this video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Pleasure, thanks for the push!
Really like your videos and how eloquently you cover these topics. While I have been a long-time fan of Firefox, I do like to refresh my browsing experience now and then. I've been using Vivaldi for 1,5 years and came back to Firefox after seeing your video. Any thoughts on the Brave browser? Does it stand up to its hype that it is better than Firefox for privacy? Thanks a lot and keep up the great work!
Thanks for the push and great question about Brave... haven't tried Brave in a while. I am planning on trying it out and sharing my thoughts. Stay tuned!
@@sunknudsen Did you happen to make the video on brave? Couldn't find it in your videos yet. Thank you for all you do!!
I have switched to Firefox after watching this, now and will donate to them. We can't let Chrome rule!
How do you donate to them?
@@waltofalltrades6817 If you want to help Mozilla Foundation they have a webpage for that, and if you want to help to Firefox development, you can help them using their latest products (Mozilla VPN for example).
I love firefox, i use an imac and ive found that chrome ran so slowly and it really began to bug me. i switched to firefox and it is amazing and fast. Loved the import passwords and bookmarks feature from other browsers.
Thanks for another great video. As you can see, the DoH is routing all DNS requests through Cloudflare, which means they still have visibility into your DNS activity. However, local ISPs are blind to these requests. (I know you mentioned that is a whole topic by it self).
Thank you, super appreciated tips and tricks. Is there a good way to backup your settings etc without the build in sync function?
Hey Jonny, between desktops yes... The data associated to profiles is stored in "~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles".
The containers sound interesting and i am going to used it.
Containers are amazing! I am so thankful this feature has been developed by the Mozilla team. 😊
Jealous
@@sunknudsen I was trying to also set up containers and realized it is only available if you are not using Private Browsing mode. Any suggestion, is running containers better, and simply not using Private Browsing. Haven't watched your other video yet about private mode.
Containers don't do THAT much. Unless you run them as isolated profiles alltogether. What counts is baton passing (fingerprinting). Firefox sucks at that. What you really need is browser isolation. The container addon on Firefox hardly does anything. But, Firefox hides something more invasive. A really sneaky piece of s;;;t software. That's MITI. It's one of the reasons Brave browser was created.
Ohh don't tell to anybody... ahh... )
Thanks for a great video as always Sun. Can you do a separate video on how to fully configure Privacy Badger? Thank you!
That was a very useful tutorial. One question about "containers": Are the containers to keep data in or out? What is the potential threat? Also, at the very end of the video, you were illustrating the FF toolbar, and you showed "create folder". Could you please explain why we would want / need to create a folder? Thanks again for an informative video.
You can think of containers almost as being different Firefox profiles - scripts in one container don't have access to data in other containers. Not sure what kind of threat you're imagining, but just using containers at all is an improvement, even if used poorly.
folders because say you are doing some research or more general term lets say you save a lots of reddit posts for some reason now you want to bookmark them but if you put them all in toolbar then it will become a mess. put it in folder and you have some form organisation
You had me at "Sovereignty":)
This is very well-presented and I love how you were explaining what you were doing and why in a pace everybody could follow! I've been a huge Firefox fan for years and I still learned a lot from this.
I'm a little concerned regarding the recent layoffs and I was wondering what your thoughts are on using Firefox now? I think we should do our best to support the browser still.
Thanks for the push and feel you about Firefox... My gut feeling is Mozilla is going trough something similar to what Apple experienced when Steve had left... the company is spread thin with too many products to maintain. I guess we will have to wait and see how the company is restructured. I really hope Firefox and developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ will be OK. So many other projects such as Tor depend on it.
@@sunknudsen im,honest,Hanks
@@sunknudsenwhat is your Opinion in may 2023?
Thank you so much, I am so happy to have found your channel.
Hi Sun, This was really helpful. Thank you. Your videos are interesting and informative. Subscribed.
Thank you for the advice you share in these videos. I’m doing some study on how to set up my devices so I’m less prone to privacy vulnerabilities.
Is there any reason to not use Brave in place of Firefox (Developer Edition)?
Thank you in advance!
Haven’t looked into Brave in a while. Will report back once I have a change to try it again.
@@sunknudsen Thank you in advance!
@@sunknudsen Brave+Duckgo... do it asap and forget everything about ffox dump. Trackers bloking is one of the main feature I like.
I love how everyone uses the old OG logo with the paw
It will be great if you do a security inspection to Vivaldi browser, they said they are private, but I don't know if as much as Firefox !! Thanks for this great channel
Thank you for your great videos! I've configured my Firefox just as you've recommended. It was no surprise, sadly, when RUclips would not allow me to watch videos without me agreeing to not browse privately.
Very strange... I watch videos on RUclips all the time with the same setup.
@@sunknudsen what is also strange is that I did not get that message when I did this setup on my MacBook Air..only my iMac.
Brave is also very good for privacy and ad blocking along with removing trackers.
I have firefox both on my phone and computer I love how you can take control and the security! 🦊
Great Detail, Thank You!!
Excellent, one of the best Videos that I have seen.
All videos should be like this.❤
Any experience with Brave Browser, and can you do a video on it?
Hey Leo, great suggestion. Brave is on my research backlog.
I've just moved to dissenter which is based on brave. All good so far.
@@paulcampbell840 Dissenter is a disaster. It is not regularly updated/patched with the lastest security patches...
Which one do u prefer? Firefox or Brave?
I know brave is chromium based but they say they have better privacy by default than Firefox. It'd help to have a video about brave browser, if u think it's worth it ;)
Thank you, great content. Subscribed
I found this so valuable, thank you!
Pleasure!
Firefox is surprisingly smooth on macOS. I would say it’s very close to Safari, and much better than Chrome for which I have to switch to dedicated GPU to make scrolling smooth. But I’m having colour management issue with Firefox. Colours look over saturated. I tried to manually turn on the colour management mode in about:config but it didn’t work for me.
Interesting, never noticed color issues at my end and I am pretty obsessed by color (my monitors are hardware calibrated). Are there others who are having this issue? Thanks for sharing btw.
Hey again Sun, would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Brave.
Thanks for the recommendation. Brave is on my research backlog.
@@sunknudsen Would be interesting to hear your thoughts about the ethic stuff with the brave browser. Also check the "braver" project :)
@@froekenur Personally it’s amazing with a built in ad block and blazing speeds and it uses less memory than chrome
great video dude, just migrated to linux and started to take my data privacy very seriously
Thanks for this. Great step-by-step guide.
I've used Firefox off and on throughout the years and I do still very much enjoy it but I'm concerned about their recent lack of impartiality in regards to politics. I get that they're open source but we've been seeing so much political censorship over the past year that when companies start getting political, it's an immediate red flag for me.
Good point. Public companies should remain impartial, open, and not censoring or fact-checking every political opinion.
@@gl35 In my opinion, private companies should do the same unless they're specifically designed and aimed at a certain audience. For example, Twitter should not be censoring people at all (except in the case of illegal activity, naturally) when their platform is aimed at a global audience.
Glad to see the millennials waking up to censorship! Today it’s conservatives and tomorrow it’s liberals or YOU!
@@earnestthompson5136 I was never really blind to it but it has become too blatant to ignore at this point and it's frustrating.
All news sources should always be fact-checked. The world has seen how dangerous fake news can be (especially far-right conspiracy theories).
It’s also open source. ALSO IT HAS ATUO PINING FOR ADD ONS.
Safari (Webkit, the "og") and Google Chrome (Chromium, based off Webkit) are also open sourced, Chrome tracks you through the signed in account and by attributing your internet activity to your IP (if you are not signed in). You will be surprised at the amount of big companies with open sourced projects (like Facebook and ReactJS).
Great Video will set that up on my Firefox !!
Wow...... That's a long video but it's worth it. Got everything needed to keep privacy mode on. Thank u....
Pleasure! Lots to cover... and the privacy guides series has 39 other episodes now... welcome to the rabbit hole!
Firefox 💪🏼
You express real satisfaction when you remove Safari, but you never mention why. Perhaps you have another episode for this but can you give a short version of why are you do not like Safari? I’m a Mac user in Safari is all I use. But I use firefox on rare necessary occasions.
What a gold-mine of an audio, thanks! I can't find the HTTPS everywhere add on you use, does it have a different name now?
Surprisingly I've never used the containers on Firefox.
Thanks for the pro tips.
I love Firefox but I'm intrigued by Brave Browser. It would be great if you could make a video comparison or your general thoughts on Brave browser since they also "sell" the idea of privacy
Thanks for sharing. I agree. That episode is on my mind. 🤓
@@sunknudsen great! i will look forward to it. Love your channel
Do one for mobile! Most of my browsing is on iPhone iPad.
See ruclips.net/video/EiDtomF41qY/видео.html. That being said mobile is not the best for privacy. Have you watched ruclips.net/video/nK76EKvburA/видео.html
Thanks a lot! you helped me so much.... really appreciate your work and effort.:)
Pleasure!
Man you are superb indeed. You did wonderful Job. Thanks a lot.
Yeah, that's nice but we're all going to throw it in the toilet now.
Wait why what happened?
how about brave browser? please compare and bring the review on that.
Thanks for the suggestion. I confirm Brave in on my research backlog. 🤓
Brave isn't as powerful as Firefox
Thank you very much for this!
Very simple and straight to the point.
Pleasure!
Thanks for this awesome video :) All the extensions you suggested require "access your data for all websites" permission, and I'm a bit confused by the Firefox support page on this. Does this mean that they can access passwords that I enter into webpages?
The fact that the founder of Firefox and creator of JavaScript left Firefox to build a better privacy-preserving browser Brave indicates that while Firefox may be better than Chrome, it in no way protects user privacy as well as Brave. Firefox was flawed and that’s how Brave came to be
I agree the story is intriguing. Have to look into Brave again.
Well this hasn't aged well.
Right!!
LibreWolf beats Brave at privacy and ads. I use to only use firefox until they went political along with several others, even Reddit came out saying some crazy stuff. So crazy how so many open platforms are starting to silence people. Driving normal people to go darker in Open Source products. I don't want the company's tracking how I live so they can figure out how to convince me to buy their products. I struggle with my will power on Amazon already.
My favorite episode. Thanks!
Hello Sun!! Great videos and content. Appreciated value. I was woundering how can metamask work with those settings. It would probably block it. I use trezor and great video you made on that. But if I connect my trezor to the Metamask extension on Firefox how would the settings be for it to work? Thank you in advance.
welp not anymore!
I have used Firefox since I was a kid, due to their recent authoritarian comments, I'll move on to Dissenter.
Just done the same myself. Was using firefox from its early days. Was annoyed when they blocked dissenter add-on a couple of years ago. They've sided with the other totalitarians now, so goodbye firefox.
What authoritarian comments?
@@sofiabergstrom41 Deplatforming Trump wasn't enough, need to do more to clamp down. :(
thank you for this video, btw. you can just drag n drop tab in to Bookmarks Toolbar (or in folder which is in that toolbar)
Good knowledge sharing. I have firefox setting in my hope pc , setting like bookmark etc. How can I get the same settings in my office PC ?
I love Firefox, but I don't understand why you can use Chrome or the new edge That's just Google Tracking out and Microsoft tracking in
what search engine do you prefer? DuckDuck Go or Google , I prefer Google, everyone collects your cookies thats part of the scam
@Leif I want to be Elected , Alice Cooper
Firefox isn't the best anything anymore dude. This vid didn't age well
Nice tutorial, thanks man!
Any chance of coaching those of us with Windows 10? Also which password managers do you recommend?
Firefox is a privacy nightmare. The settings you check in the menu to ensure said privacy don't actually do what they're supposed to. Take fingerprinting for example even if you check strict tracking protection on the desktop version go to about:config and look for privacy.resistfingerprint it will be set to false...soooooo......... As of 8/27/20 they have eliminated the about:config for the mobile version which basically eliminates privacy and being non monetized. Other privacy issues such as indicating in the settings you don't want autocomplete/search suggestions as you type is ignored (turn it off and try typing amaz it will auto complete to amazon.com), the push for you to add everything to top sites or home page and to sync your tabs all while burying addons under several layers of menus. And it's ugly. They've turned private browsing to the same purple as TOR to try to mislead users into associating it with TOR, among a whole host of other d!@k moves. Make no mistake they are out to monetize you, your privacy is the last thing on their list.
Feel you... but what better options do we have? Mitigating browser security vulnerabilities requires a huge amount of resources. Btw, Firefox on iOS is essentially WebKit... so I would avoid it for privacy. Actually, I would avoid smartphones in general for privacy. See ruclips.net/video/TAPYn6FC5t8/видео.html.
I #boycottMozilla.
Amazing video, thanks for the help bro
Just found you channel, very informative videos, thanks a lot. What is your opinion on MS Edge? It's chromium based but from what I've heard is much better option than Chrome and Microsoft have locket it down a lot.. Interested in your opinion as just setting up my new Macbook and want it secure from the start.
This didn't age well
Wait why?
@@liar2k5 ruclips.net/video/BMXrfmRSprM/видео.html
real privacy is when you use linux instead of osx.
Just made the jump to linux (OpenSUSE). Couldn't be happier.
OSX IS EASIER TO USE
Switched to Firefox a few years back from IE and have been happy with it ever since. Tried google chrome but was dogged by ads. Still running win 7 but will be on 10 soon.
Great video! played @ 1.5x speed and secured my browser @ a blazing fast pace XD
No thanks, I don't need a browser that crashes every 5 mins.
Firefox is garbage....
This was very useful, thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much! I subscribed.
Pleasure Angel!
Firefox sucks
Very clear presentation! I am rather new to Firefox, but after seeing this, I will probably switch to that. Thanks a lot.
i have been using chrome for years, but newly i switched to ff also and i am very happy with it.
Now i have 1 question please: i have uBlock Origin in FF installed and in the privacy settings i have chosen standard. What do you recommend? To switch to custom, or keep it in standard since there is uBlock Add on installed?
Thank you for the great and helpful video!
I just found your channel and LOVE IT...starting to binge watch! I'm a beginner looking to increase my privacy. I am switching to firefox for my browser thanks to you and your instructions on configuration. Id like to know your opinion as I'm stuck on something.I'm debating which of these 3 options is best. The first option being using 4 different web browsers, 1 for each (email, banking, shopping and general web browsing). Option 2 is using Firefox exclusively and having 4 different user profiles set up so essentially I'd be using 4 different Firefox browsers. Option 3 is to use just 1 Firefox user profile and create "containers". I love the containers option the best but scared it will make tracking and fingerprinting worse than going with 4 different browsers. PLEASE let me know your thoughts.
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Virtual machine with tor browser and 44 VPNs
Supa Dupa Helpful !!!!! Thank you Sun, you Rock !!!!!!
Great Video. you are extremely knowledgeable. it is ok to make mistakes while confusing the apps as long as you correct them. it is not a big deal.
Really am greatful I found you. WOW....what a change to life!!!
Just found your channel and I am happy I did. Any thoughts on Brave browser?