LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption
LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption
I believe LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption. Most options are either : all or nothing. No in-between.
Sadly, I believe the default settings are too strict and will slow down adoption by the mass, which would in term bring a better anonymity set.
It's not a great alternative to Firefox because LibreWolf is just not usable for the daily user: no DRM, no cookies, no history, websites that break... The browser should let the user choose:
- Maximum compatibility (more tracking)
- Mid-option (like a modded firefox but without the annoyances like cookies not being stored, having a fixed size, or forced light-mode/timezone)
- Best privacy (pretty much the current mode)
I find myself forced to edit the default settings which is a huge privacy/fingerprinting risk. If we create 'settings groups', yes, the privacy will be hurt, but at least we will be more in each group.
What do you think about this?
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Librewolf's defaults are sane. Masses don't care about privacy anyway, they just use Chrome.
If defaults are sane enough, then explain this: you log into a website, tell the website to remember your credentials, then after you reopen the browser you're logged out of that website.
Yes, I know it's cookies, but regular people know so little about it that they're most likely to not stay after that incident.
Even I did not notice first, as there was no warning about cookies being deleted upon browser closure, so I spent an entire evening reconfiguring it from scratch after I've initially set it up. I didn't mind getting through all the settings, so not a big deal (I would have done this anyway at a later time), but, at least for me, there were still not sane defaults.
Librewolf's selling point is privacy. Deleting cookies and history is absolutely something a privacy conscious browser should do. Cookies being the main tracking tool on the internet, that is definitely the sane default for a privacy oriented browser.
@banazir @petrescatraian yes, but easy exceptions to specific URL will be great. I had to turn off RFP because all my corporate webs had issues with dates, languages...
I care about privacy but think librewolf's default are too strict. I know other people that would think the same.