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Re: uBlock Origin 1.65.0 (2025-07-10)

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:59:53 -0700, NFN Smith wrote :


> One further thought.... If you're new to Firefox, are you aware of 
> LibreWolf? That one advertises itself as highly privacy-enhanced.
> 
> I haven't looked at at in detail, and I haven't seen whether it's a true 
> fork of Firefox, with its own coding differences, or if it's just 
> Firefox, with prefs set to maximum privacy (including bundling of 
> several privacy-related extensions).  My impression is that the settings 
> are strict enough that it breaks sites, enough that it takes loosening 
> the settings in order to be able to use, especially for general-purpose use.
> 
> Before you get too far into building your own, see what LibreWolf is 
> doing, either things you want do in your own work, or for things that 
> they do that you may not have considered.

Yes. I know about LibreFox. But thanks for suggesting it. A lot of your
suggestions were spot on target, including that there are privacy & effort
pros and cons to every decision when making the DIY browser project.

I started with LibreFox & MullVad (on Windows) in fact, since that's what
people had suggested, and I always test what people suggest and report
back, so I had done that a few weeks ago.

When I ran into problems with the VPN extensions, I switched from LibreFox
and MullVAd to Chromium browsers (Brave, Ungoogled Chromium, on Windows),
which use a different mechanism for extensions than does Mozilla, but even
then, the Chromium browsers also had (different) issues with the VPN
extensions.

So, after testing more than a dozen VPN extensions I switched to socks5
proxies (which are faster & less unreliable than the VPN extensions were),
and then I had to add proxifiers to proxify things that are not browsers,
and then I realized belatedly Mozilla does Proxies completely differently
than Chromium browsers do, etc., so it has been a long haul since July 7th
when the Epic Privacy browser went bust (and which caused all this effort).

At the moment, I only use the VPN extensions to fool YouTube into thinking
that I'm not a bot, but other than that, I'm very used to system-wide VPNs,
where the golden privacy rule is never pay for anything and never log into
anything, and never give anybody an email address or phone number, which is
easy to do if you're intelligent about it and if you know the tradeoffs,
where the "you are the product" BS is just bro science with no basis in
fact, if you're intelligent - as you're the product if you're not
intelligent - which is something else altogether after all).

Whether or not you are the product depends solely on your intelligence; not
on the cost or lack of cost of the product, just like the you get what you
pay for bro science which again, only works for dumb people because they
have no idea what they're getting so they pay too much for everything
because dumb people simply assume the more you pay the more you get. 

Dumb people will never have privacy nor will they make intelligent
decisions; the whole point of this thread is to make smart decisions.

In that regard, I saw your comments about VPNs where I understand
completely where you're coming from but I haven't responded to your other
excellent comments yet as it takers time to give a well researched answer
that benefits us both and everyone lurking (which is the goal, after all).

Anyway, the thread on the DIY browser is a work in progress over here...
 <https://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com/>

Let's see which thread it is... ok... it's this one... 
 *Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser*
  <https://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com/NJ9NwCcL/tutorial-diy-build-your-own-lightweight-chromium-based-privacy-web-browser>

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.65.0 (2025-07-10) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-24 14:54 +0000
  Re: uBlock Origin 1.65.0 (2025-07-10) NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-08-26 12:23 -0700
    Re: uBlock Origin 1.65.0 (2025-07-10) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 05:40 +0000
  Re: uBlock Origin 1.65.0 (2025-07-10) NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-08-29 12:59 -0700
    Re: uBlock Origin 1.65.0 (2025-07-10) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 23:06 +0000

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