I think there’s something else in play (or that + something else)
Anyways, here’s comments on current LibreWolf delay on AUR:
I’m currently waiting for the Ubuntu Xenial package for 85.0 to be ready (we are grabbing patches from that one and also using it for the tarball build for Flatpak and Appimage releases as it’s a compatibility requirement for those to be built / run on Xenial). Usually that does not take that long – unfortunately, this time it seems to take a bit longer. Once that’s ready, we’ll update the packages all around.
Should that become the norm, though, we’d have to see if we can either manually adapt the “blocking” patches or drop those blocking the release for the non-Xenial-dependent releases and have a somewhat staggered release.
TL;DR: soon, I hope
We’re using a few modifications that need to be applied before building, so we have to build from source ourselves.
I don’t like being behind on the releases either – but maybe “decoupling” things a bit (so the Arch releases, for example, can be ready earlier) might make sense ^^
thanks, interesting list
I have started to use Chameleon, but I had to whitelist something, or audio was not working.
I also use multi account containers, really useful in my opinion
I’m running Firefox (as I have for many years) with just a few addons. I have ublock, with quite a few lists enabled (including blocking analytics by Google and social media buttons). I also use HTTPS everywhere, for obvious reasons. And last, but not least I have NoScript.
Having Javascript disabled by default on all sites (except for those I do trust, like say the EndeavourOS forum), will make fingerprinting or tracking me harder. Obviously I don’t disappear altogether, but it’s a step in the right direction. I also always browse in incognito mode, which deletes all cookies on close. I also always close the browser regularly.
Things I do not use are any of the social media platforms. Not having any accounts anywhere is awesome. I highly recommend it to anyone!
And, what also helps is having a good VPN. I used to use Proton, but as of today I am trying Mullvad. Seems to work decently.
I wonder if we’re not all doing wrong? Isn’t it better we try to keep the browsers like everyone else’s? Blend in with the crowd. Browser fingerprint does not matter if someone has as long as they do not know who is behind the computer.
The 2 biggest behind fingerprinting are Google and Facebook. Just stay away from them!
Fingerprinting is really difficult to avoid. To keep your browser unfingerprintable is no small challenge.
Fingerprinting is what they use to help figure that out.
There are quite a lot of sites using fingerprinting these days. Much more than just those 2. To make matters worse, some of them are sharing fingerprint data.
I know this is Android and off-topic but it really annoyed me that Firefox wasn’t available on F-Droid so I began searching. And I came along Fennec basically Firefox Nightly but available on F-Droid.If anyone is against Google Play Store this may help
I totally agree. I don’t think it’s impossible but it’s difficult for sure for the average user and even those who are more skilled and knowledgeable. I just try to stay away from platforms i detest and a lot of social media are my worst enemy. I do not like the ad stuff, the tracking, spying whatever. For me i want to use the Internet to get relevant information i look for not what these outlets think i want to see. The internet for me is just a tool. I want to go to a site that i choose. I want to see information that i choose and i don’t want followers and signs along the way or messages or tweets or pictures or garbage i didn’t ask for.
I’m trying to block them as much as i can. Almost all web pages have a Facebook like button that calls home to Facebook as soon as you’re on the site. Lots of crap from Google too.
If you are using Firefox or something based on it, the facebook container extension handles that for you pretty seamlessly. Google & friends are much harder to deal with.
Truth be told, I prefer a second party to do this for me… Especially since Mozilla has been acting somewhat shady these days… Also this addon worked perfectly for me for years.
– but maybe “decoupling” things a bit (so the Arch releases, for example, can be ready earlier) might make sense ^^
