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        All that being said, if you don’t want to tweak Firefox with Arkenfox user.js (or tweak it yourself), and you can live with the fact that Librewolf makes these outgoing connections [to update uBlock Origin and its lists], Librewolf is currently one of the most privacy respecting browsers out there.

        It’s in my “good enough for me” list because the alternative is dealing with Firefox myself

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, no some guys blog stating his personal opinion is not evidence. We are just talking about things that are better than Firefox anyhow

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            10 months ago

            They blog doesn’t give much of a reason of why it isn’t private. It feels more like “I don’t use this so you shouldn’t” mentality

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                For one, Librewolf clearly states what it does on startup. It has to update ublock origin and other threat lists. That is better than having out of date protections is it not? Just because it connects doesn’t mean it sends much data. Things need to be hosted somewhere.

                For Waterfox the argument is less bad but Waterfox is about on par with a lot of other stuff. It isn’t going to be crazy good and it is no where near as good as Librewolf but it is better than Firefox and many others. I would rate it as half bad.

                Librewolf is the arguably best privacy browser. You haven’t named anything better. It breaks sites occasionally but it does protect privacy and security and scores well on fingerprinting resistance.

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                    What are you going to use outside of the add-on store? At the end of the day no ones going to move unless they do something really bad.

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            Personally I disagree with the conclusions stated by the blog post, but I can respect the reasoning for getting there, and I can draw my own conclusions from it myself.