huh 🤨
LibRedirect add-on for Firefox asks for permission to Read and Modify Privacy settings! 🤔
Anyone know why?
@frankie Why libreWolf over GNU IceCat?
@kreyren
I guess GNU IceCat is not maintained anymore.
@inference @frankie GNU IceCat is privacy oriented and strips all non-free and questionable functionality from firefox
@inference @frankie i don't agree with the reasoning, but i do agree with statement and working on a solution
git.dotya.ml/tlf
IceCat is a fine example of FOSS which fails at enforcing the privacy because it lacks security; it's even unmaintained. As much as I prefer Chromium or even Firefox proper, myself, use something such as LibreFox if you want an IceCat replacement which is still maintained.
@inference @frankie you are missinformed about icecat it's actively maintained and it's devs focus on privacy and security and it has a lot of measures for that by default
@inference @frankie again the 60 series is **UNMAINTAINED BINARY**
the binary is no longer released and with huge red warning discouraged to use as it's not sustainable to build it and none was using it bcs distros are doing their own packaging anyway
@inference @frankie GNU people also do security and privacy on top of that with
* using arkenfox-inspired default settings
* maintaining custom extensions
* privacy-oriented features
* alternative extension marketplace and plugin finder that does auditing for privacy and security of the extensions
@inference @frankie I agree that it's malpractice in FOSS and i am working on a long-term solution to that as just waiting for the problem to fix itself with time is a terrible
Since I only knew about the 60 series IceCat, I saw it as carelessly not maintaining the fork or just telling users that it doesn't matter, even when there are countless CVEs by now which can easily break privacy through breaking security.