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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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Should I worry about add on compatibility with librewolf and also recommendation on a pinned questions thread. (moist.catsweat.com)
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So I have seen comments that bitwardens extension works and want to check if no script does. Since libre wolf is just configuration I figure most stuff should work but not real sure. I looked to see if there was something like a pinned questions thread which I would normally put a minor question like this. Considering recent news maybe instead a moving from firefox pinned thread for awhile first.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not 100% the case that EVERY extension will. A completely local extension that doesn't ever hit the web or change page layout won't, but how many of those are there? Anything that changes how you view a page will subtly impact what the server sees in your request, or at least CAN see via javascript, which can be used towards fingerprinting -- and because everything is so monopolized, anything making a third party call related to the page is potentially resolvable based on IP and timing because like four companies run everything and share an unknown subset of their data on you. Since your data is the new oil, there's a robust incentive for ad companies to really break out all the stops trying to fingerprint everything about you. It's not LibreWolf's fault, it's just the incentives that exists out there plus how the web works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Got it, so it's not that the browser passes an extension list to the server, but the server could recognize an extensions impact on the page with local JS or something and then send that info home. Could that in theory be blocked?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

You could try, but I've never heard of a browser that claimed to be able to mitigate fingerprinting with arbitrary extensions. The extension itself could literally be phoning home to Google or anyone else