“Some of the content that appears in these suggestions is provided by partners, and some of the content is sponsored.”
Ah, ok, now I get it. They need/want to make money. Thanks for the link!
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Most if not all of us want the most secure and private browser made for us by somone.
Few of us are willing to pay (=donate) for it.
None of us to share any data. God forbid!
Yes, I understand the dilemma here. And as long as it’s opt-in I don’t see a problem. But: It won’t make them much money 'cause almost every FF-user still out there is privacy-focused and won’t use this function. Some may even leave because of this. And this won’t bring any new users to FF. So what’s the point here? Nothing will really change, they are still highly dependent on the money they get from Google.
Personally I think FF/Mozilla is in a downward spiral and I see nothing to stop this.
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Does HTTPS Everywhere do anything that setting Firefox to use HTTPS only doesn’t?
It’s a decent browser, I have changed over since this “feature” called Contextual Suggestions in FF. Lack of sync is a small price to pay in my humble opinion 
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No, and EFF are deprecating HTTPS everywhere precisely because it’s not needed now, as all the major browsers offer an option to use HTTPS on all sites.
Gotcha, thanks. I’d been wondering, as it wouldn’t be surprising to find out that the factory version fell far short of something like HTTPS Everywhere, companies all to often peddle the appearance of security rather than provide actual security .
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I checked my TOR browser at dnsleaktest.com and here is the result:
Why is TOR using Google’s DNS? Or Cloudflare’s for that matter?
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I don’t think it matters as long as the hits to DNS are coming from the TOR exit node and not your IP.
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That was what I thought as well, yet wondered about their choice.
Thanks for the clarification @dalto!
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Your first statement about Firefox losing their user base is correct. They are bleeding users actually, mostly because the new developers have lost focus on its core values, the most important one, privacy, as felt recently with “contextual suggestions” inclusion.
I don’t know if it is time to jump ship quite yet, given the alternatives are just as iffy, but the future for Firefox is bleak if it continues on this course. It is a good time to evaluate the other browsers, and keep an “alternative” list handy.
Destination Linux covered Firefox yesterday, good segment on all its woes.
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I’ve used Brave for the past year and a half or so and I’ve been really happy with it overall. I’ve also been using Librewolf, with removal of cookies, history, etc. upon close, for the past two weeks for spontaneous searches and I’m really happy too.
However, I don’t really see myself having to log into my emails and other websites over and over every time I close the browser, so I maintain Brave for that use case.
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Password managers make this a lot less tedious.
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Great channel btw, check it out if you don’t know it yet!
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Is TOR browser for daily uses?
and is it on Arch repo?
TOR is available on arch repo but if I were you, I wouldn’t use it for daily uses.
From experience, the tunnel system of TOR makes connections pretty long so if you just want to go to wikipedia or do simple researches it’ll be more annoying than anything else. Furthermore, don’t forget that if you use a website where you have to log in (Netflix, Youtube) they’ll know who you are and they’ll still know what you’re watching, so in this case TOR is pretty much useless.
You also have to make sure that the websites are .onion otherwise you won’t be 100% anonymous.
You can find a lot of web extensions that’ll stop fingerprinting and if you have set up a good vpn (Wireguard) you should be safe enough.
The classic use of TOR browser is much more useful for sensitives websites.
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If it’s for daily use is up to you. I don’t think it’s worth the tradeoffs in speed, but your use case may be vastly different than mine.
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Yes.
Yes.
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Much appreciated your answers.