• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    I know it doesn’t have add on support. That is a very good thing. I don’t want it to.

    Yes, it has a finger print. I am agreeing on that point. It should be fixed, firefox android has anti finger printing, and I don’t understand why they dont add that to firefox focus.

    Again, I use focus for 90% of browsing on mobile by default. I use a different browser for when I want to go to sites I actually care about and use, where I want additional ad block, sync, etc.

    • boredsquirrel@tux.socialOP
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      10 hours ago

      @NewNewAugustEast

      You can just… not install addons… or only install trusted ones, from a trusted store, like uBlock Origin.

      “It has a fingerprint” makes no sense. Please look up what that even means. Everything has a fingerprint.

      Focus is just Firefox Android in worse with a minimalist UI and always private-browsing mode. You can literally do this in Ironfox, and much more.

      screenshot of Ironfox browser settings showing a toggle for "always use private browsing mode", among others like which referrers are sent and if cache is written to disk.

      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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        10 hours ago

        But I don’t want to. I don’t even want it to have a mechanism to add extensions. That is the point.

        I know what fingerprinting means. Again, Firefox for Android has anti-fingerprinting, but focus does not. That is weird. Why they don’t add it and make it default is strange.

        Finally, what is your weird obsession with pushing Ironfox? I am talking about (and started this with) Firefox focus.

        • boredsquirrel@tux.socialOP
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          9 hours ago

          @NewNewAugustEast

          I have written right at the beginning, why not using extensions removes essential capabilities out, that Firefox does not support natively, unlike Brave, or even Cromite and Vanadium to an extent.

          But uBlock Origin is more thorough than Brave Shields.

          And still, you can disable mv3 extension support in the about:config (why ever you would want that) and surely also disable extension support entirely.

          Ironfox is the only fully open source, blobfree and security hardened Firefox build on Android. The simple reason why I repeat it. Official Firefox always contained blobs and was not privacy friendly, and unlike Desktop Firefox, you cannot use policies, autoconfig and user.js to harden it without building it yourself.

          Other projects like IceRaven or Waterfox have a ton of issues. It is the browser you want to use if you actually want a powerful, private browser.

          “Minimalist browsers” is a hardly defined term. Minimalist could mean it just loads anything but strips out features. Or it could mean a tool that makes the bloated web usable.

          It is not Firefox Android that is the issue to solve (once it is hardened and deblobbed), but the horrendous state of the web.

          But I think we are talking past each other.

          • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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            9 hours ago

            I have written right at the beginning, why not using extensions removes essential capabilities out

            Nope. I disagree with that premise. I do not need anything an extension can provide (in the use case of 90% random browsing), and all extensions are a security risk. I would prefer to have an extension free, adblock built in, cookie tossing on close by default, simple browser as my go to for most everything I would use a browser on mobile for.

            Now for that other 10% of browsing, maybe I would like a secure, blob free, hardened browser. But that is not the use case I was talking about Focus for.