Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release

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  • multi-account-containers

    Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.

  • Have you seen the browsing containers^1, including the self-destructing ones? I'm 100% not trying to lobby you out of private browsing, just wondering if you were using the mode that best fit your needs

    Also, be aware that (unless something has radically changed) all private windows share state with one another, which to the very best of my knowledge isn't true for the browser containers

    1: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta... and https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme

  • ja3

    JA3 is a standard for creating SSL client fingerprints in an easy to produce and shareable way.

  • It's sufficient to identify you since there is still all other tracking data any browser supplies as part of the HTTPs connection handshake [1].

    It's also not necessary to have Mozilla be the bad actor. Anyone who has access to the information in the future is a possible bad actor as they might be able to cross-reference the allegedly "innocuous" information with some future, more-pervasive data.

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    [1] - https://github.com/salesforce/ja3

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • user.js

    Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening

  • vscodium

    binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

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