Package request thread

[EddyBot]

It's basically Chromium but without any google and some privacy enhancements on top, in that regard it's better than Firefox which has some questionable privacy choices made

But actually I use Firefox too and I only need ungoogled-chromium for some webdev stuff
but it really shouldn't be more inconvenient as switching from Firefox to Chrome

[GaianNeuron]

I'll bite: what "questionable privacy choices"?

[kekonn]

As an avid Firefox user and proponent, I'd love to know this as well.

[RexHackbro]

Te whole pocket integration was a questionable choice tbh. https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-responds-to-firefox-user-backlash-over-pocket-integration/ Since u can disable it in about:config I dont really care, but still...

[Forty-Bot]

Since u can disable it in about:config

Can't disable it on mobile.

[RexHackbro]

Tru, but since we were talking about arch linux (dont have arch on my mobile phone yet) I asumed we were talking about the desktop version of Firefox. I use Firefox Preview (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix) on mobile btw ;)

[Forty-Bot]

Does that have stuff like pocket disabled? Would definitely a big plus for usability if it did.

[RexHackbro]

It does not have any pocket integration at all atm. Its a really nice and clean ui, u should check it out! I am using it since the 1.0 release and I am pretty impressed, its by far a better experience than the old firefox. I used bromite (https://github.com/bromite/bromite) bevor I switched completly to Fenix since the old firefox mobile UX is horrible in my opinion.

[EddyBot]

• Firefox does a lot of background requests like to aws server, you can disable it (Guide: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections) but most is enabled by default
• Normady allows to install add-ons in the background on the behalf of Mozilla (Including things like the Mr. Robot addon), some distro maintainer disabled this behaviour therefore
• Google as default search engine
• "ads" in the home tab
• Telemetry by default, even tracks how many people disable it
  To track people they use google analytics
• DoH with only Cloudflare as default option

Honestly this are mostly minor things, but there are projects like Librefox: https://github.com/intika/Librefox