@thomholwerda i use firefox on mobile because i need ublock origin >_> so thank you

@thomholwerda FYI, the first setting is under "general.aboutConfig.enable" on Firefox for Android. So search for "aboutConfig" not "about:config".

@thomholwerda I can't even open chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml - it just assumes I meant to enter an https:// address and f's it up

@thomholwerda i use it! and i even bullied my dad into also doing that!

also wth facebook?!

@thomholwerda thanks!

@thomholwerda Wow. Even on the supposedly highly privacy-conscious "Firefox Focus" that option was still set to True.

#Firefox #FirefoxFocus

@thomholwerda going to chrome: surprised me

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social bigger wtf is they hid about:config on mobile?? i remember just being able to go to it..

@thomholwerda thank you!

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Doesn't seems to exist on Fennec-fdroid, hope the maintainer set it to false when they rebase on Firefox.

@thomholwerda thank you so much ive just looked for it in the settings but couldn't find it so figured maybe they didn't implement it on phones. putting this opt out option out of sight is really a shame.

@thomholwerda Thank you for the tip.

(But it is just incredible that we have to go through all that just to disable something that should at least have been an opt-in, or shouldn’t have existed at all. 😬)

Ice raven is amazing on Android

@thomholwerda One of the others thanks you sir!

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Thankyou! That's not an easy stone to turn.

(Medien: 1)

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So terribly dissappointed in #Mozilla.
#BrokenTrust

@thomholwerda Thank you!

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social thank you! I've been trying to figure out how to do it and assumed it just hasn't made it to mobile yet.

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Heh, a lot of us started using only Firefox somewhere along the way. Thank you!

@thomholwerda as another one of the few, thanks

@thomholwerda as one of the other 4.
Thank you!

@thomholwerda thanks!

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social thanks!!!

@thomholwerda So this is what the Mozilla people mean when they say "it's fine, it's opt-out!" ... o_0

@thomholwerda You also can swing to Mull (or other nice Firefox fork) 😜
@hipolito

@thomholwerda and, just asking to anyone, what about duck duck mobile browser? Does it worth it?

@thomholwerda you can also just jump straight to the private attribution option and turn it off in the chrome:// url

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Is this relevant if i dont use facebook?

@thomholwerda is brave good these days?

@thomholwerda Done. But pretty shit that `false` is not the default. Really unimpressed, @mozilla

Privacy intrusion by stealth: the moral equivalent of peeking through people's bathroom windows.

@thomholwerda thank you so much

@thomholwerda and in that case there is an option in Advanced for Safari to opt out (if it applied)

@thomholwerda not an issue on Fennec F-Droid! but thanks for sharing, I know of people who will need it…

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Do we know if this shit is in Firefox Focus?

Edit: Answering myself, it IS on Firefox Focus, the supposedly super-private edition of Firefox, for fuck's sakes... 🤦

@thomholwerda Can you link us to directions on doing it on desktop Firefox?

@thomholwerda Also, I don't understand - Chrome? Why is the direction to enter "chrome" in a browser that isn't Chrome?

@thomholwerda couldn't get the about:config to work. Until I found that it's only available in Firefox Beta, not in the official released version: https://droidwin.com/cannot-access-aboutconfig-in-firefox-android-fixed/

@thomholwerda Or just use Mull.

This is a privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology. It enables many features upstreamed by the Tor Uplift project using preferences from the arkenfox-user.js project. It is recommended to install 'uBlock Origin'.

@thomholwerda thank you. I’m looking for a new browser on iOS, any suggestions?

@thomholwerda thank you!

@thomholwerda I can't open the config file. Bye Firefox.

@thomholwerda this is awful i think, i feel “had”

@thomholwerda holy hell thank you for showing how to enable about:config all on it's own!

I've wanted that for years now.

@thomholwerda Thank you! It worked (was necessary) for Firefox Klar as well.

@thomholwerda interesting. I would've thought that that wasn't active or that it didn't even exist!

Thanks for the tip.

@thomholwerda another possibility: use the Firefox-beta app, which has about:config enabled by default

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social
1. i'm glad that you can use about:config on stable
2. why in the fuck is the method to enable about:config so obscure?

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Considering that my malware detector notifies me about dangerous links when I visit many news sites without an ad blocker, the solution is simpler. Adblock.

@thomholwerda I've just found that the submission option is also enabled on the desktop.
Damn!

@thomholwerda that is only a temporary solution. The long term solution is:
1. Uninstall Firefox
2. Download & install Mull or Fennec F-Droid
3. ?
4. Profit

i gave this exact same advice to how to deactivate it on the desktop but instead recommending Librewolf

@thomholwerda Thanks! I, sigh, thought it was too good to be true to assume it was just part of the other visible ad related toggle in preferences.

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Thank you.

I was wondering where they stashed the fiddly settings on mobile. Bookmarking

@thomholwerda Facebook?

@thomholwerda
While this is useful - thank you - it's a bit confusing as words run into each other, making the instructions unclear.