huh 🤨

LibRedirect add-on for Firefox asks for permission to Read and Modify Privacy settings! 🤔

Anyone know why?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

#Addons
#Librewolf
#Privacy
#LibRedirect

@frankie Why libreWolf over GNU IceCat?

@kreyren
I guess GNU IceCat is not maintained anymore.

@frankie @kreyren No, and it sacrifices too much security to be called private, too.

@inference @frankie GNU IceCat is privacy oriented and strips all non-free and questionable functionality from firefox

@kreyren @frankie

https://inferencium.net/blog/foss-is-working-against-itself.html

@inference @frankie i don't agree with the reasoning, but i do agree with statement and working on a solution

git.dotya.ml/tlf

@kreyren @frankie I'm not against FOSS, I'm against the idea that security doesn't matter and the code being open is all it takes to have privacy.

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