David GerardFirefox hit me today with the fucking AI bot popups
discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*
someone at mozilla is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences
Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]@davidgerard I switched to Waterfox on my computer and it’s completely left out all the AI stuff. Spoiling because it’s annoying behavior but also I hadn’t known this was available until recently!
Shaadra@shaadra I don’t have the descriptions to hand, especially because the search history is in my old Firefox browser. But I basically read through both of their “about“ sections and decided that waterfox fit what I was looking for a little bit better. if you’re already on LibreWolf and it’s working for you then I don’t think there’s a compelling reason to switch.
@platypus Fair! And thanks for your perspective. I did a little reading in the meantime and found that Waterfox seems more aimed at keeping the old plugins alive and having better customisation than Firefox, which happens to improve privacy. LibreWolf is more focussed specifically on privacy and security.
@shaadra thanks for sharing that back! That makes sense. Re customization, I am often saying “the browser is the user’s agent!” (Which I picked up from a friend)