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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

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263 points amarder | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 11:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amarder ◴[30 Aug 25 12:19 UTC] No.45073992[source]▶
This checklist is a work in progress, would love to hear your feedback.
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1. arcfour ◴[31 Aug 25 01:50 UTC] No.45079618[source]▶
Personally I leave the anonymous daily usage ping enabled in the (perhaps naive) hope that my use of Firefox being counted might help keep it afloat/popular. I guess that's not really in the spirit of a privacy-focused hardening guide but it is something that some may wish to consider.

Some may argue that the data that is included is a bit much for a "daily usage ping," an assertion that I won't dispute—but I will say that I appreciate the fact that Firefox even provides this level of transparency in the first place:

https://dictionary.telemetry.mozilla.org/apps/firefox_deskto...