Ironfox doesn't have privacy.resistfingerprinting set to true in about:config?

[iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee]

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[breadcat@sh.itjust.works]

waterfox

[steve@communick.news]

If I remember, that setting is extremely aggressive, and breaks lots of sites. Firefox has by default, a more complicated and nuanced feature that works practically as well, without breaking everything.

[zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml]

But weren't they acquired by some big evil company?

[zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml]

So is Firefox mobile or Fennec actually better in this regard?

[breadcat@sh.itjust.works]

not anymore

[steve@communick.news]

In that specific regard, probably.
I use Fennec. I've found the more security minded versions, tend to have problems with some site or another, and annoy me.

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

I noticed that the sites that have issues are the sites I should avoid.

After a while, you just don't need them if you are willing to make the changes needed to reduce that corpo exposure

[steve@communick.news]

Sites like my banks, and stores, and self hosted VTT games.
I've had issues with all. Not acceptable

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Idk why, it doesnt say anything on their gitlab about changing that. Maybe it is a problem with the build process? I remember on Mull a couple months ago i did a clean install and RFP was disabled. You can just enable it if you want.

[Guest]

What's the alternative on Android tho? (not saying there isn't one, just that I don't know it if it exists)

[foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml]

In my opinion you should enable it

[Guest]

We very publicly discussed our approach to fingerprinting and the reasoning for this. But a basic TL;DR is that we're using a hardened configuration of FPP - which matches all of RFP's targets, except the few known to cause breakage/be undesirable for users. I'd recommend reading that GitLab issue for a detailed explanation, and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

FYI: Arkenfox doesn't enable RFP by default anymore either, and LibreWolf is also considering switching to FPP with an approach like ours.

[Guest]

We don't recommend enabling it; you can see our reasoning as to why we don't enable RFP here - we use a hardened configuration of FPP instead.

FYI: Arkenfox doesn't enable RFP by default anymore either, and LibreWolf is also considering switching to FPP with an approach like ours.

[zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml]

Thanks!

[Guest]

See here for our explanation.

[Guest]

Waterfox contains proprietary Google Play libraries, and doesn't include any hardening when compared to standard Firefox on Android. It's a completely different project with a different set of goals than IronFox or Mull.

You would be far better off using standard Firefox over Waterfox, in terms of privacy & security.

[Guest]

They changed some basics from Mull and decided to go other ways.

What basics did we change, and why do you have a problem with them?

IronFox still has the same core goals/mission as Mull: to provide a privacy & security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. If IronFox isn't for you, that's completely fine - but I'm just perplexed by your reasoning here, and would appreciate any elaboration so that we can improve.

[Guest]

Shitty of them claiming to follow Mull's legacy if they're doing their own thing.

How?

Our change in approach to fingerprinting was very carefully considered and discussed, both privately and publicly.

FYI: Arkenfox doesn't enable RFP by default anymore either, and LibreWolf is also considering switching to FPP with an approach like ours.

IronFox still has the same core goals/mission as Mull: to provide a privacy & security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. If IronFox isn't for you, that's completely fine - but I just don't understand how this is shitty or compromising Mull's legacy/ideals.