webextension-skip-redirect VS user.js

Recommended by Arkenfox: Skip Redirect

Temporary workaround while i try to understand if uBO can help here, is to use https://github.com/sblask/webextension-skip-redirect

To skip redirects and link shorteners: https://fastforward.team/ or https://github.com/sblask/webextension-skip-redirect

c) Skip Redirect – Avoiding intermediate pages between meme links in Messenger on desktop and my actual Firefox browser.

After reading the skip redirect GitHub repo, and the fastforward faq page , I found out that skip redirect searches for final url in the url parameters, while fastforward uses crowd bypass so when a person with the addon got redirected after doing captcha and waiting 10 seconds other user don't need to wait and get redirected instantly

Skip Redirect, for example, takes care of those links going through outgoing.prod.mozaws.net.

Well, if your concern is more about referrers through links and not headers, Skip Redirect https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/skip-redirect/ + uBO with https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt list and AdGuard URL Tracking Protection list (or CleanUrls) can remove almost all the time the tracking content of this type of links.

Skip Redirect does it for Chrome and Firefox, source is on Github.

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.