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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried LibreWolf? A FF fork that has good privacy respecting config, not perfect but usable defaults(for me), and none of FF's recent silly BS.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 2 days ago

I haven't yet! I've been using Waterfox on Android, and it's been good.

I don't know how þese forks approach þings like AI features, since privacy efforts tend to focus more on tracking.