xdg-utils VS user.js

I would prefer DE developers to get together and just come up with a common "launch the preferred terminal" spec. Freedesktop.org has got most of the way with xdg-terminal, but a) DEs will want something that doesn't involve running a shell script, and b) xdg-terminal isn't actually shipped in xdg-utils yet anyway.

No, xdg-utils are absolutely terrible. They're a mess of untested, undebuggable, underdocumented and extremely user unfriendly shell scripts that need to die.

I've once had xdg-open be absolutely broken on my machine, scanning all of my $HOME because of a symlink with a space [1]. Any attempt to use xdg-open would pin a CPU core for 100% while it recursively traversed millions of files because of missing quote characters in a shell script. Truly the pinnacle of software engineering.

[1] - https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-utils/commit/9816ebb3e6fd...

Fix xdg-settings support for default-web-browser for Plasma 5.19+

I don't know about Chrome based browsers but if you are using Firefox you can try user.js from arkenfox [link] or from pyllyukko [link] (I personally recommend the first one because they have a great wiki), you just put the script to your Firefox profile directory and it will spoof your screen resolution, link referrer, user agent, etc. (Remember to manually edit the file to suit your preferences, otherwise it may delete your history and cookies!). Also you can try User-Agent Switcher and Manager [Chrome] [Firefox] it is open source and lets you change your user agent to whatever you want. You can view your browser information on this website: https://deviceinfo.me, IMO this is a great website for identifying your browser's privacy issues.

I don't know how this one compares to Arkenfox, but from my limited understanding, it seems it's more/less of an out-of-the-box Arkenfox experience.

I recommend pyllyukko's hardened user.js https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/

I've been using the user.js script based on https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/tree/relaxed for a few years now, but today I noticed that it hasn't been updated for quite a while.

If you're that worried about privacy you should probably change your Firefox to one of these templates.

Already tried it. Pretty nice but I prefer hardening Firefox on my own (which just means copying and pasting this user.js accordingly and applying some extensions )