Exactly! I remember the excitement back in 2006/2007 when I first tried it. Not much content back then, but it felt like freedom.

Years ago I was forced to use Internet Explorer to access employee services. I had a mental stroke every time I had to use it. Not anymore. Librewolf just works, but I also don’t visit all the crazy pants wackadoo websites.

I appologize if I came across negative in any way and, I am certain, I did not feel any negativity from you. Your warnings are absolutely valid and needed to be brought up. I think, in the back of my head I thought that most users on lemmy are slightly more tech savvy than the average user.

Glad you stuck with it! I love it.

Hello!

It is based on Firefox, which means it is Firefox with some customizations. There are certain settings in Firefox that some would consider intrusive to privacy. For example, Firefox by default runs studies and collects anonymous data. While it is anonymous, some people just don’t like that. I don’t really know what they collect so I want to opt out. In Librewolf, this setting is turned off by default. The pocket is disabled in Librewolf. I know Firefox is free and I am glad that it exists, but I feel like it’s becoming a bloated Android version for Samsung phones with apps that you cannot remove and that just take up space for no reason.

Does this make sense? Am I somewhat explaining?

You are not wrong. This is a suggestion for slightly more advanced users that are into privacy. I do think it could be hardened more. I wonder why all permissions are not blocked by default.

At least I didn’t suggest Lynx.

There’s also Librewolf, based on Firefox. Comes with many (but could be better) privacy related settings available in firefox.

From the website:

This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

Available for Linux, macOs, and Windows.

https://librewolf.net

Maybe send another car to space. There’s just not enough trash floating around.

So you’re one of the rich ones.

Florida bans hot ocean water.

It doesn’t!

I, for one, am grateful for science and what we can do with it. It’s crazy awesome that people figured out how to edit genes. I really liked Unatural Selection (2019) TV series.

Hopefully the captain goes down with the ship.