The First Site to Visit After Installing Firefox
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Firefox should implement a "Click to enable WebGL/Canvas/etc" function tbh. That way it protects against fingerprinting without completely preventing web games and such from running
librewolf has this, just like a permission to the left of the URL bar, like notifications permission
Based.
Or any data URL image. I've had so many QR codes show up as static because of this.
There is the counter argument of "not having a webcanvas is a fingerprint in itself", but I think if a feature like this gets users enough, this could become a nice privacy tool
LibreWolf
Watched this video at 12:28 AM started compiling icecat before finishing the video.
I was planning to go to bed at 2:00 AM.
It's just now done.
It's 5:39 AM.
Firefox is meant to be Chrome competitor. If Firefox came with enhanced extra security settings enabled it would cause some inconveniences/changes mainstream user is not used to. It's not an fault at all.
If you have any concerns about security, it honestly won't take long to turn Firefox into really robust private browser.
concerns and knowledge. he lacks the latter
Honestly, I love the fact that you don't exclude Windows users from your videos. Thanks.
Gateway drug
@@jokroast6912 ?
@@DeepfriedBeans4492 "Get people used to seeing Linux and they'll come to the dark side for the shinies that Windows doesn't have", basically. But in two words instead of however many I used.
@@neoqwerty "gateway drug" has a negative connotations but that comment doesn't really make sense as a criticism of linux so ig you're right
Nothing against, I loved the video, but I was just thinking something:
By faking your user agent to the most commonly used browser (Chrome Latest version on Windows 10) you are literally contributing to the argument:
"Well most of the internet is chromium/chrome anyway so lets just stop supporting firefox entirely on our website, or leave it to far third place, after safari"
Because you are contributing to that usage % of chrome throughout the internet and sites you visit.
Its sad, but we should embrace the firefox user agent, to keep its world usage % relevant. I know a lot of people that use firefox, so it's kinda shocking seeing it so low on worldwide % usage. Maybe a of of FF users are just obcessed with security and are faking their user agent? 🤔
Exactly what I thought
@@gl3nda96 I was actually speaking seriously. The web and sites like Google or Facebook that literally follow you around the web with their adsense and whatever, save which browser you are visiting X website with, as additional statistics. And then they share these statistics with the world, and other big websites that specialize on ranking stuff like gs.statcounter.com and others actually use this data to rank the top used browsers throughout the web. So yes, by faking your user agent to be a chrome browser, you are actually contributing to the monopoly of chrome, which is now with 66%, instead of helping Firefox grow its importance and market share, which has been slowly going down and is now at around 3%.
If you wanna help firefox continue to get noticed in the web developer community (i'm a web developer btw and I love firefox thats why i'm saying this), don't change your user agent. Instead even do the opposite, if you user chrome, change its user agent to be Firefox.
Developers usually stop caring about supporting a browser if it goes bellow 1% market share.
@@gl3nda96 I'm a brand new Full-Stack Web Developer, just got my course & certificate done 4 months ago, still junior 😅
So anyway thanks for the clarification, I always thought that everything was measured through user agent statistics from google adsense and whatever.
Now, I'm gonna be honest with you:
I've used firefox since I can remember, because I loved its extensions. After they changed to web extensions or whatever they are called, the extension catalog got really smaller, but still awesome. The real problem however, is that Firefox lately is just using so much CPU and RAM, i've tested on dozens of computers from everyone I know because I refuse to believe that Firefox is just eating more CPU and RAM than chrome. But it seems that it is. Open the same tabs with the exact same extensions on chrome and firefox, let them settle and Firefox will eat 2-3x more ram and also slightly more CPU constantly. Been happening for a lot of versions now, I've tried on my macbook, i've tried on my desktop with windows & linux (ubuntu 20.10), it's the same everywhere. I'm really hoping that firefox fixes this.
Because yea, I love firefox because I hate that google dominates the internet. But for now, on my mac I always use safari (and it's just unbelievably smooth on the new macOS 11), and on windows i've been using the new Edge which is really nice actually. On linux, I still use Firefox, and it seems that on linux is where it performs the best.
I'm gonna keep paying attention to it tho, and when finally it gets lighter again, i'll switch everything back to firefox without even blinking.
... That, or... Chromium-based browsers just know how to better hide ram usage using a lot of multi-processes lol
This can be circumvented by just changing your user agent to the most common Firefox one. You would be more fingerprintable than with a Chrome user agent, but it shouldn't be detrimental, and it's considerably better than telling websites you're a linux user on Firefox. Linux users are much easier to fingerprint
@@sarditime132 wouldn't a Firefox user with a Chrome user agent be way more fingerprintable than just a Firefox user? you're gonna be the only person on the internet with a browser that behaves in fingerprinter feature tests like Firefox but claims to be Chrome. plus you're going to have to keep updating your useragent to the latest Chrome version or be uniquely out of date.
"if you're still using windows" lmao
A bunch of people still use Windows, including probably many viewers, or even the majority of viewers.
Particularly when it comes to privacy-focused people, they can keep away spying with custom images and tweaks. And while it can be a hassle to maintain on Windows 10, they don't all need to use Windows 10, plus the hassle isn't too huge on Windows 10 either.
@@MsHojat "a bunch of people" dude 73% of people use Windows.
@@alvin_row 73% of all people. I'd say a much larger amount of his audience are more likely to use linux. The rest are probably in the "I'd use linux, but windows works fine" camp.
My wifi card and half of my games don't work on Ubuntu. It just isn't a viable option for everyday use yet, dual boot is the way to go.
@@David-nn1cf lmao try being a nvidia user
The Pocket feature at 0:55 - For someone with ADD that was the worst feature I've ever seen. I pounded the table many times after realizing I'd forgotten why I opened a new tab because something "interesting" caught my eye in pocket.
I also have ADD and I do like it a bit. I only use it on mobile though, so if I'm checking it I'm already trying to burn 5-15 minutes. I wish it had a bit more options so I could block news sites I don't want though
@@1337million It's very effective, that's not an indictment. During a commute, nice, keep it walled in.
what is add is it avertisment
@@comradesfromthearab6260attention deficit disorder
Thank you for this video. It's very informative for a relative normie like me who's still concerned with privacy but doesn't know what any of those things mean.
There is "clone" of Firefox named Librewolf, basically it's firefox but with ripped all controversial firefox shit.
wow who would have thought.
I love you bro (no homo)
Unfortunately librewolf development is fucked, I spent a bit of time trying to find the source code and no one seems to know where it actually is. Their github repo just has a script which requires root, adds a sudo user with nopasswd, and downloads the actual code from some place I couldn't find because I didn't want to run their script with root lol
@@magnusanderson6681 I think it is on gitlab
@@davidw.3981 Yeah gitlab I meant, unless the actual source is somewhere else on gitlab but I spent a couple hours trying to find it and could not
Speaking of Firefox not being Chromium-based, my old Computer Science teacher would not even acknowledge it not being Chrome-based. The only evidence he had for it supposedly being Chrome-based was the fact the preferences URL was the same between Chrome and Firefox.
Wow. The fact that he's a computer science teacher makes that kinda scary lol. Is that really the highest level of thinking he's capable of? xD
Worst part? The preferences URL between Chrome and Firefox are different. Chrome's is chrome://settings whereas Firefox's is about:preferences.
@@YouKnowMeDuh My old computer science teacher insisted that Python was compiled and had comparable speed to C
There are nurses who are antivaxx. This is worse than Dunning-Kruger effect because it is in the field they are supposed to be an expert (or at least proficient) in.
@@SomeRandomPiggo how do people even get to that point and be willing to communicate that knowledge to others? It takes 1 search to disprove
The issue with spoofing user agent in your config is that it's going to quickly become outdated and you'll standout just as much.
The issue with doing it with an extension is that firefox has a major issue, which to my knowledge still hasn't been fixed, where only one extension at a time can modify an outgoing request and if you have multiple extensions doing that, which extension can apply its changes is basically determined by a race condition so very inconsistant.
So it needs an extension that can do all that requires you to be private when it comes to HTTP requests and it needs to be able to fetch the latest version user agent of your browser choice, automatically.
Instead of clicking open, and just dragging everything into the profile window (2 seconds of work), he takes the terminal route.
linux user moment
Hi. I just switched to firefox after hearing about Manifest V3, and I wasn't expecting to need to do anything outside of giving firefox access to my bookmarks. The process has been a bit confusing for me, I'm sure there's a ton I still don't know, but videos like this have made the switch... actually interesting. It could've been overwhelming, but videos like these make it enjoyable to learn about all the stuff that makes firefox different. So thank you.
You can choose to import your Chromium bookmarks to Firefox. There's no need for Firefox to access them.
Why not Brave?
@@bigpickles bc it’s chromium too.
@@Cholitowoof it's a fork of it, but so far removed. I highly doubt this will change how it works
"posting on image boards that require captcha s"
I think we all know the image board you're referring to
I love the canvas blocker utility. I use it to hide the "News"" "Community" and social media share icons - to cater youtube to my liking. Its nice you can just hide annoyances on any site with it, between that and ublock makes for a nice internet experience once again. The only thing doing this prevents that ive found in last 6 months or so is things such as bank websites wont allow login, but you only have to whitelist those sites to prevent that issue
Dark Reader is aslo nice for not searing you eyeballs. Basically dark modes websites that doesn't have darkmode. Anytime I use a different browser I fell like I have gone back a decade.
This is nice to know that this exists, as I've been using RUclips Vanced/Revanced (rip vanced) for awhile and while alot of their functionality is in allowing add-ons like sponsorblock on mobile, they also allow the disabling of many unwanted youtube features, but I haven't been able to find this ability for the browser version of RUclips until now.
@@lejoshmont2093 the issue is that dark reader and most other add-ons that do a similar thing tend to break alot of sites, some sites more than others. Sometimes it's just thumbnails and images that it breaks, sometimes it's the whole website failing to work.
@@play3rthr339 Yea the dark reader isn't perfect but I would much deal with its shortcomings than deal with the somewhat pain of looking at a white screen.
Bruh honestly captchas make resistfingerprinting not worth it.
I've done upwards of 15 captchas to access shit due to that.
@ no thats just the fact that bots also dont be able to support what you deactivate here
Who said going against the flow is easy
@@ioangogov2993 hi ioan
@@ioangogov2993 😔
My mind is blown! Thank you for sharing this. Good to know that there's less hackie ways to protect yourself while browsing.
mental outlaw is my favourite vtuber
*GNUtuber
And that's why I always set about:blank as the home page - this little change made my life so much easier and more productive...
would have been nice to add these option links in the dscriptions section.
I would love to be able to synchronize my Firefox profile kind of how you would do it with an account but do it over something like SSH. I don't need their centralized server to store my account information.
You can probably do that with the profile directory
(You might want to exclude the cache folder and maybe other temporary data from the sync though)
You can just host it yourself
github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
Currently migrating away from python 2.7
@@06kellyjac I had no idea thanks
@@06kellyjac Python 2.7 STILL being around is something I can't understand.
most of those settings (not all) can be accessed by clicking on the Tools menu at the top and going into options, and for extensions i never used Ublock or any other add blocker, i just use NoScript and practically block the internet and break all sites. (manually unbreaking them by adding only certain sites.) so captchas are always broken but unless i really need to, i usually don't go in the site.
i use ublock origin and noscript together, mostly 'cause ublock origin catches pop-ups and it lets me un-uglify fandom wikias by blocking elements globally, and noscript is for the other sites that really don't need to load javascript and html5 and who knows what else. (and for blacklisting ad sites)
Disable DNS over HTTPS where firefox uses TRR is set to 0 as default.
0 - Off (default). use standard native resolving only (don't use TRR at all)
This means that by default the TRR resolver is not used at all so you can untick this.
I use the latest firefox in windows 10 and have checked that it is 0 at default
You're literally the first person to ever aknowledge Vivaldi and I feel validated in my choice.
🤓
Are there going to be more gentoo/anime crossover memes?
@@abdulwahabjag Agreed.
Gentoo is 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕒𝕥, use LFS. (sarcasm)
@@abdulwahabjag
ur fat
@Its GNU /Freedom operating systems are bloat, use the bios (sarcasm)
@@nilkonom BIOS is bloat
Good gravy look at the size of those icons!
Man, you're rocks! Thank You for your course !!! I've learned so much!!!
Wow a sentient collection of rocks intelligent enough not only to use electronics and communicate with humans, but smart enoungh to use firefox rather than chrome
Thank You for this tutorial. I find myself too lazy to do the other method of hardening ff.
HTTPS Everywhere states that Firefox supports its features now, I imagine somewhere in this site there is a setting to force HTTPS.
Decentraleyes is not really kept up to date anymore. Localcdn is better but not that much and tends to break websites (no idea if it's because these websites use an older or newer version of the script)
9:35 Bruh Canvas fingerprinting has nothing to do with user agents.
Please put links to the resources used in the description or in a pined comment. If there is no link please put a small glossary with the terms that are useful, this is helpful for us non native English speakers.
I don't like the idea of pretending to use windows because I want people to notice people are using linux.
Agreed. Unless if a website specifically requires you to use Windows for some reason.
I realize this is an old vid. Maybe someone will see this comment idk.
I'm just wondering how is adopting Firefox a win? Ok, great it doesn't use Chromium. And it's produced by a nonprofit instead of Google.
On the other hand, I find it suspicious that they aggressively bundle Pocket (a commercial service) by default, and force users to go on a research expedition and click through a scary warning to disable it. Is this really the behavior of a trustworthy, user-first organization? And why should disabling tracking and telemetry be so complex and difficult it requires a third party config tool?
Maybe there's a privacy argument that isn't obvious to me. But at this point it seems like Chromium and Gecko seem equally hostile.
But maybe I'm overlooking something. Always willing to learn new info.
Well there isnt a better alternative… plus just not using chromium is a win for me, with their obvious spyware software policies, plus i really dont care whenever mozilla is trustworthy or not, i have a fast and customizable browser i am happy and ignorant
@@amorim1191 there are a plethora of alternatives lol wdym
I just use chameleon with regards to spoofing user agent and OS. It automatically randomly chooses from certain categories of browsers and OSes (including mobile as an option, although it can be a PITA to use mobile ones).
Then I also use Canvasblocker to spoof a bunch of fingerprintable features,
Then uMatrix and uBlock Origin as a generic script/cookie/image/content blocker.
Also I use Decentraleyes, but I think it usually doesn't end up doing much. I guess it works, just operates silently and smoothly in the background without causing problems (much like uBlock Origin usually)
I dont have links rn but I think decentraleyes is being discussed for removal in PTIO issue tracker for a variety of reasons, you might wanna look that up.
This is amazing. Thanks for the heads up.
Cpt. Bombey?
why Firefox consume much of ram?
Always used firefox, and I do not intend to switch. At work I am forced to use edge for work-integrated stuff, and it is a horrible experience.
Every time I install firefox I go to customize and move the bookmarks toolbar to the right side of the address bar then proceeed to hide the bookmarks toolbar space. Then I just remove the title from the sites and use it as a quick way of going to my most used websites.
what should i do if i cant log in to google?
I don't even have Chrome installed, but it has the best settings for a default user. Firefox looks just kind of overloaded, if you don't customize it. But Edge is worse, IMO it's one of the best browsers but the default search engine Bing scares people who are not into such stuff, and the News on the front page look like MSN from IE.
Protip: If you unpin everything from the Firefox startpage (except search), you have the Firefox logo, and a Firefox sign. I think this should be the default setting.
this is all basically my settings but i have an extensive array of customized addons and userscripts in addition to many about:config settings so I just save my profile and copy it where I need it
Where the fuck can I get that epic wallpaper? I really miss Terry (peace be upon him)
When I were a Chromium user, whenever I was looking to buy something it took like 2 minutes for all the platforms to start showing me adds of what I was looking for. Since firefox it took like 1 week for platforms to know what I was looking for... And for sure is bekause leaked info on other platforms
10:12 dat wallpaper
I like
0.4% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
For me as well.
I use Charmellion add on sometimes to pretend I'm on windows.
Thanks for this. I go to ffprofile and change over all my browser profiles.
Charmellion? do you mean Chameleon? I use Chameleon as well.
Great vid; can you do an update for this for present time?
I do all the configurations manually, in Firefox, cause I'm a glutton for punishment,but it's all worth it, I feel in control!
nobody cares about Average Joe's opinion, sorry mate
@@kvdrr It seems you care enough to comment!
@@timi_ro touché
such a handy site. makes me want to try firefox again
I do not see disable DNS over HTTPS anywhere in my about:config. Where is it!?!?
Just great! I lost all my passwords and settings changing the profile. It was not worth the trouble!
I actually did the "hardened Firefox" which, not gonna lie, is time taking. And besides that, I use some plug-ins to stop websites from getting my data. And finally, my backup browser is Brave Browser.
Oh... brave browser. . the OTHER browser that's chromium based, NOT the search engine though... you can also just use that on firefox, lol. if it isn't firefox... chances are, it's gonna suck.
Brave is weak. Firefox with ublock origin is way better.
1:53 using a privacy focused browser with windows
*B r u h*
The reason firefox still had pocket and stuff in your instance is because you should've closed firefox before deleting the files in the profile's root folder and copied it afterwards.
i love my firefox, just like my 128gb of ram getting filled up to 60% from my ridicilous tab hording issue. Not saying this is firefox fault but its certainly funny seeing it in task manager.
10:11
I laughed my ass off when I saw that wallpaper what the fuck why would u do that
Definitely close the actually profile browser before deleting the default files and moving the new files in, or firefox will auto generate some new files.
Thanks for the video. After the latest chrome CVE ( the freetype CVE ) i switched to firefox and this will be very helpful. Thank You Ken
Make sure you update freetype on your system, it is also very likely installed if you have a desktop environment
@@NoName-xy9ij Updated it the day Ken released his video on it. Yeah i do have a desktop environment, i'm running cinnamon.
*chromium not chrome
That's not a reason to switch. They fixed it as soon as FreeType did.
That’s a bad reason to switch, vulnerabilities can be in any software. Firefox isn’t immune.
Plus, Google released the fixed as soon as they could
7:57 so *THAT'S* why I'm having hard times with recaptcha! I thought it was just my bad luck as usual 😂
I was about to say that the user agent string was probably out of date then I looked at the date the video was published.
A while ago I red on 4chengz that Firefox is a little borked and is permanently writing on the SSD which could destroy it after some time, do you know about this and if yes, is this fixed?
Thanks for this video, it's great. But I have a question. When run the test, it still says that I not protected for fingerprinting. But I the information they still get from is for example which GPU card I have. And I followed your steps. Does this have anything to do with the Canvas "enabled"?
Kinda neat. But I've stopped tweaking my user.js and just switched to librewolf which handles 95% of that automatically.
I was going to do this but then it said I have to delete my current profile which will get rid of all my data and I decided it's not worth the trouble.
The best browser in the world
3DS internet browser
links on ps3
ungoogled chromium
@@gplastic heh
Firefox is a solid browser and pdf reader for me
when firefox updates how much of this goes away?
epiphany aka gnome web isn't bad, but it lacks the ability to deal with DRM or obvious extensions. I suspect because gnome doesn't want you to use extensions on their desktop.
Ive never seen those blog popups
How hard is to download ublock origin??
I will rather jump off the cliff than using chrome
Moved to Firefox for treestyletabs it’s life changing
I used this to make a new profile to test out, and honestly im disappointed. The about:config settings are largely unaffected it seems and the autoplay blocking still requires manual disabling in the configs, pocket was still showing on the homepage, and a few other things make this slightly annoying. I still have to go into the config and do my usual work to get the browser to not piss me off. I find myself using chromium browsers more and more due to this, seeing as how FF keeps making itself worse per update imo.
I heard it announced to become chromium based as well. Any update on this ?
One issue I had with Firefox is that some website will give me a Forbidden error if I reject all cookies.
And honestly it's infuriating
Do a video on Pale Moon browser
alternative title: How linux users install their internet browser
also one of the browser that crashes more often than any other chromium-based browsers. despite all the claims of fixing memory leaks, they still persist and it's been going on for years with no resolution.
i like this browser but i want the extensions to show up like chrome how can i do that sir
Next to the url bar, there is an option to customize the toolbar. Click on it and it will direct you to a menu in a new tab
@@joaco190 yeah i found it but some extension does not appear idk why
@@EthanWinters12 Not all extensions have menu items. Some extensions are passive and you just configure them through the add-ons menu (Tools -> Add-ons or about:addons).
@@JoeJoeTater alright thanks man appreciate it
It is worse than I thought with the privacy-settings of Firefox. Telling a website from which website you came or on which link you click. That is none of their business!
That’s the `Referer` *HTTP* header which was added to the *HTTP* standard decades ago, and is basically unsecure legacy cruft at this point that many websites, both old and new, require to work.
And because of that, all browsers are forced to implement it to correctly display those websites.
Great video! Is this doable on FF Android, or is there a better alternative browser there?
Firefox is that web browser that each year is worse and I dislike more and more, but as it changes as the same time as chrome, which I dislike even more, I had stuck with Firefox. Just feeling deeply unhappy about web browsers. Unless it's lynx. that one might be a text only browser, but at least it never let me down.
i have been using firefox for almost twenty years with no problems. you can use what you want and cancel what you
don't. it is not that difficult. i run linux only, so firefox is baked in.
It doesn't work for me except for the add-ons and you also get the pocket icon. I don't think it's turned off.
Thanks for this video!
Maybe the too late quitting of ff saved over the extracted files. Lesson learned better check twice but the recommended options are great.
How do you feel about Opera??
The only reason i sometimes use chrome is for its lighthouse feature.
One of these settings disables web searches and only allows web addresses.
Anyone know which?
I'll pass. I have my own methods. When installing Firefox I usually start by using one of these two approaches:
1. Copy one of my existing profile folders into "profiles", then alter "profiles.ini" to point to that. This synchs *_everything_* , including bookmarks, settings (incl settings customized via "about:config"), passwords, credit cards, about two dozen add-ons, etc, etc, etc.
2. Import selected items via Firefox-Synch (built-in to Firefox), with synch settings set to "everything but settings and add-ons". This approach will grab bookmarks, passwords, and credit cards, but not settings, themes, or add-ons; those have to be done manually. This is for when I want a Firefox installation that differs substantially from my others, for some special purpose.
Generally, the four most-important add-ons I always install on *_every_* Firefox installation are these:
1. Ad-Block-Plus (blocks nearly all ads)
2. NoScript (allows fine-grained control over which JS scripts are allowed to run, and I always disallow scripts that send data to Google or Facebook or push ads).
3. NewTabTools (replaces Firefox's ugly, useless, cluttered, garbage-filled NewTab with a clean grid which one can use to launch two dozen or so (depending on how you configure it) most-used web sites)
4. ContainterTabs (segregates cookies to prevent the web sites one visits from committing corporate collusion via cross-site cookies, which, believe me, many sites (especially Flacebrook and Gaggle!!!) do a LOT)
So I'm afraid my existing procedures already go way beyond anything done by the "Firefox Profile Maker" site mentioned in this video. About 30 minutes after I install Firefox on any computer, it bears little resemblance to raw Firefox. I never use raw Firefox, any more than I would dump some raw, uncooked, unseasoned meat and veggies on a plate and call it a "meal". No, it's just raw ingredients; takes a half hour of work to make a meal out of it. Same with Firefox.
That being said, interesting and informative video, and I think the less-tech-savvy of your viewers will find it an easy way to improve their Firefox.
"Not the best defaults". LOL. Perhaps the understatement of the year. I've been using FF for a long time, but I'm about to dump it. Why? The feature set is actually quite good, but the performance sucks. Don't know why FF always generates a high CPU load on my Debian linux systems. The Mozilla folks of course are in complete denial: "Oh no, can't reproduce it here, must be your system". Ok, then why don't the other browsers exhibit this behavior? Crickets. And I've tried everything: disabling add-ons, safe mode, disabling defaults - nothing helps. I'm not the only one having this problem which seems to have been around for a while yet there are no answers that fix this issue once and for all for everyone that experiences it. Like for any piece of software that malfunctions at some point a fix should be available. At a minimum the Mozilla folks should be more helpful. In the absence of these two FF is just degenerating into abandonware.
have you tried creating a new profile?
I got pissed with firefox when they pulled some shit with Gab's dissenter, but that crashed and burned (because it was run by torba, a very self-destructive man). I still don't really feel like I can trust the firefox team, but to be frank there aren't really many good alternatives.
Grow up
Thanks for the links in the description.... ohh wait!
If you fake your UA to be a popular browser, after that browser is updated it will become rare. And as someone else has said that makes FF even lower in stats.
HTTPS everywhere is obsolete since FF has a built in feature that does the same, doesn't it? It's enabled by default I think.
You deleting the files wouldn't work on Windows because the files would be open.
4:15 why disabled DNS over HTTPS? Isn't this supposed to be a method for more privacy? I just added a custom provider (Quad9) that I found on PrivacyTools.io. At least, this is what I gathered from your "Secure your DNS queries with Encrypted DNS" video.
because it uses the default Firefox DNS resolver and HTTPS is just a trust certificate based encryption.
Hello there,
After I've created a new user profile using ffprofile, the majority of RUclips videos are now showing ads.
I'm using the default options of ffprofile + Enable resistFingerprinting.
Futhermore, I have HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock, and Decentraleyes installed.
Does anyone now why is that?
One thing chrome destroys Firefox is at extensions. Firefox extensions are scarce and plague with issues.
I tried to browse reddit after using following this guide and the Top button won't work for some reason. I tried to use inspect on it said that the 'Cross Origin Request' was blocked. How do I fix that?
>Don't use Windows because you have to do a lot of third-party f*ckarounds to make it good
>Use Firefox but be sure to perform these third-party f*ckarounds to make it good
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Great info. After all these years, I still use Firefox despite knowing that its creator is an absolute tool.
A good browser but the people now behind it are annoying with BS and lies they non stop push but then all chrome based browsers are trash built from evil google so we have no choose these days unless you try oprah that use to be good and work but these days it does nothing but crashes at the wrong web page, everything just sucks
Not installing uMatrix should come with capital punishment.