Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint – Mozilla Security Blog
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Firefox is strengthening protection against trackers that recognize you across websites, even when they don’t use cookies. The latest fingerprinting protections shipped in Firefox reduce the extractable distinguishing details, making ...
  • grue@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago
    $ sudo apt install librewolf
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
Error: Unable to locate package librewolf

    Still waiting for it to show up in the official Debian (or Ubuntu) repositories. I’m aware that they publish to their own repository that they recommend adding to your system, but I don’t want to taint my install like that.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        Of course there are other ways I could install it, but that’s beside the point. Normal Free Software belongs in distros’ package repositories.

        • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          That means you expect the software to have a manteiner for every single distro, each with their own hurdles.

          That’s exactly the point flatpaks and appimages are solving, and how it seems things are going moving forward.

          • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            They also provide

            • an extra level of sandboxing/isolation for security
            • isolation of the package’s dependencies from your base OS for stability

            Not for all software, but for many office/productivity/internet tools, I ❤️ flatpak

            • tau@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              I agree, while they aren’t perfect, using apps like FlatSeal to toggle and remove permissions for Flatpak apps is a lot easier than writing firejail or brwap configs for standard apps.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      31·
      3 days ago

      You could spin up an Arch or Fedora distrobox, install it in that, and then create link for it to your host system (easily done with a gui app like BoxBuddy if you’re allergic to CLI). No noticable overhead.

      I think there’s a flatpak too?