My home page is blank. My search engine is duckduck go.

I only have adblock and noscript.

I want firefox to not access google - ever. Right now it shows that it connects and maintains a connection permanently.

I find it infuritating actually.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    At your own risk, disable Safe Browsing. And add all Google domains to the blacklist of uBlock Origin. Or you can simply switch to LibreWolf and go on with your life.

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      26 days ago

      LibreWolf can’t be a convenient daily driver. Need tweaks and tweaking default settings may reduce privacy and security slightly.

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        25 days ago

        Yes, I’ve tried it multiple times, but, apart of the so-called “privacy features”, I can’t find a single reason to use it instead of regular Firefox. Well, I suppose that if you’re really paranoid, or hate every single decision Mozilla makes with the force of a thousand suns, then it can be appealing.

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          25 days ago

          Thats because it is so close to Firefox to not even be distinct, but the privacy settings are useful anyway. I’ve used it as a daily driver for a long time and have not yet found it lacking.

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          25 days ago

          apart of the so-called “privacy features”, I can’t find a single reason to use it instead of regular Firefox.

          Because it’s supposed to be Firefox but private. That’s literally the only distinction.