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This is pretty similar to my set up but I'm ready to quit Firefox because what feels like every few weeks they somehow manage to add new auto-enabled spyware.

I regularly have to turn stuff off in

"Firefox Data Collection and Use"

and

"Website Advertising Preferences"

Recently I also started seeing ads in my address bar when typing stuff and saw they've added:

"Suggestions from sponsors Support Firefox with occasional sponsored suggestions."

of course, enabled by default.

Firefox is a great product but unfortunately slowly being milked/destroyed by its non-technical management team.



Updates aren't supposed to reset any setting. Submit a bug report for them to fix whatever is doing that for you: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/


> but I'm ready to quit Firefox because

This is still nowhere near Google's browser.


Easiest solution is to just use LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on Android.

They get rid of all the anti-privacy defaults.




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