privacy.resistFingerprinting breaks a lot more than just themes. Many of the weird problems reported in Firefox (and forks) are just from enabling it.

It has some pros but also TONNES of cons. Everything from a completely blank page to wrong timestamps to poor textures and so much more. Sometimes you will be flagged as a bot and prompted with literally infinite puzzles, thus effectively banning you from a website.

Some of these problems get fixed but new ones also get born. I personally use it but I also expect breakage and worse performance.

You can stop this by changing the settings in your browser. In Firefox go to about:config and search for browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction and toggle it so that it says true.

Go to about:config and set “browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction” to true

Go to about:config and set “browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction” to true

If you want to help but find configuration hard you can easily help by running a Snowflake proxy on your phone or in your browser.

I have configured my phone run a Snowflake proxy every time my phone is connected to WiFi and charging. It’s automated and does not require me to do anything. I have turned on notifications that tell me every time I’m helping someone connecting to Tor. It gives me a good feeling every time.

The sender is generating the link preview on Signal. Would this not eliminate the threat for the receiver? Not my field.

You shouldn’t give out your real email address. I instead use randomly generated email addresses that forwards emails to my real one. I can easily deactivate any forwarding email address and therefore stop any unwanted emails.

It works really well and also has other benefits like for example knowing who sold your information if you start receiving spam.

You also gain a bit of privacy and security from being a tiny bit harder to track and your credentials being less valuable in the case that the company you gave the random address to has a data breach.

This video explains the concept very well.

I worked in one of the biggest telecom companies in Europe. This is most likely an order made through customer service. The telecom companies have known about this problem for a long time. They are trying balance security and ease of use for the customer.

If company A implements noticeably stricter requirements for identification to order stuff, the average customer gets annoyed and switches to company B.

Therefore the companies watch each other closely and implement stricter requirements slowly at about the same rate as their competitors.

Protip: You can contact customer service of most telecom companies and ask them to write down a password that you need to tell them before you can order a SIM or other stuff.

I don’t know a lot about Linus. What makes him a creep?

Reminds me of some of Maalavidaa’s old stuff.

If you are willing to compromise I would recommend Betterfox as it breaks far fewer sites while still being better than the default Firefox profile.