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This is not a good look for brave. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vanilla Firefox is not clean either. It

Has sponsored articles on new tabs
Uses Google by default

Though, these are trivial to disable and even come pre-done on the linux distro I'm using to writ this comment.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Honestly, I'm fine with Google being the default search engine (since they pay a lot for the priviledge and it's trivial to remove). What I acrually have a problem with is Firefox using Google Firebase for analytics and Google whatever for "safe search" queries, etc. These are a lot more hidden, which I find borderline malicious. With the search engine you at least get the notification of "fuck I'm on Google" whenever you search for something, so it doesn't do all that much harm since it's very opaque, unlike having to refer people to ffprofiles to purge google completely.

On that note - if you want to get rid of Google from Firefox as much as possible visit ffprofiles. It has it all nicely explained. You just tick some boxes and apply the profile as per the ~5-step instructions. You'll be done in less than 20 minutes.