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

110 mentions on Hacker News by 78 people: 4 stories, 106 comments · first 2018-09-14 · latest 2026-03-07

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  1. …blocking, i.e. with the rule: * * * allow and hence without disabling javascript on any sites. [0] https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/4.2.3-uM... Edit: as pointed out by DarkWiiPlayer below, if you want to be able to…
    comment by gnomewascool · 2019-05-28 · in I can see your local web servers
  2. …learn anything about what I wrote here. It's useless. 1: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/ 2: https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js
    comment by chienandalou · 2019-05-06 · in Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
  3. With some effort, yes: https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/1.6-Fire... It doesn't work on iOS because Firefox on iOS isn't really Firefox but just a Safari webview with a bunch of extra features and a different logo.
    comment by jeroenhd · 2019-04-14 · in Configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting
  4. …is a false sense of privacy. * https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/... * https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/4.1-Exte... > Edit: I also recently switched to NoHTTP instead of HTTPS-Everywhere. This…
    comment by tya99 · 2019-04-08 · in VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
  5. …and another computer in VLAN2 that is used for the facebooking. I use a hardened browser with https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js that hardens the browser and helps against fingerprinting. I also use a number of addons, for…
    comment by tya99 · 2019-04-08 · in VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
  6. …person making the change to their browser, no one is forcing them. This is my preferred approach: https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
    comment by guilhas · 2018-09-14 · in Firefox about:config privacy settings