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Screw you Mozilla (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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If this isn't a targetted advert in my browser, I don't know what is.

And here's where you turn it off:

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[–] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

anyone know the about:config value key?

edit: found it. Set browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.all to false. For anyone not using user.js, I highly recommend it. It means you only ever have to find these settings once. I keep mine in a git repo so it's easy to transport between machines.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Can you expand on user.js.

    Is that the arkenfox user profile? How do you upload it? How often is it updated?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Sure. User.js is a file you can add in your Firefox profile directory which gets loaded each time Firefox starts.

    Pretty good documentation here: https://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

    The arkenfox one is a fully loaded pro-privacy user.js made by some knowledgeable people. I did use that one for my initial version iirc: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js

    How often do I update it? Just when mozilla rolls out a new feature I don't like. I commit it to my repo, that way I easily take my settings to each different machine. You cannot change every FF setting with that file, but you can change the majority of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    So two things: basically install user.js and forget it (except changing minor settings you want).

    What about recommended extesnsions. It just says minimize extensions (which is a good policy), but which extensions are recommended to use with it.

    Are there certain privacy extensions that are redundant because of it?

    I understand I may be asking things outside of your purview, but I am curious how does this work.

    Interesting enough, if I visit a fingerprinting site such as kuber.studio/cookie, it still recognizes me as a visitor, even with user.js.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, I'm not a privacy expert. And I didn't ever think of user.js as privacy protection personally. I use it to turn off AI and other things that annoy me. Privacy-wise I use OBO and few others. The arkenfox settings I used as a basis but I removed anything that wasn't ai related or that I didn't understand.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago (1 child)

    I think the main protection I'm looking for at the moment is fingerprinting protection. ON their site they do claim that, but there isn't much info (at least that I can understand about that).

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