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Does it block ads like Brave without installing extensions? Tracking is one of the worst plagues of modern browsing so blocking all kinds of tracking and fingerprinting should be the first concern in an enterprise. Nothing should leak to the outside world

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Well, just install the fucking extension in Firefox. There is nothing else that is as good as uBlock Origin. E.g. Reddit prevents you from reading unless you log in? There's a filter for that in an "annoyances" block-list that you can activate.

Can people working at places that don’t let them install Firefox without an enterprise contract just go and install extensions?

Firefox already had a very mature policy management engine, it just didn't have a nice gui and would require like ansible or something to use.

It allows forcing specific extensions on, and allowing user installs is a flag.

I use the policy engine on nixos to install some plugins and disable some of firefox's dumber features.

You'd think from a security perspective IT would even preinstall ublock origin.

I wanted to, but my dumbass global IT department directly blocks uBlock Origin, Origin Lite, and AdBlock by extension IDs. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, the works.

I cannot even begin to fathom that stupid fucking decision from someone above me.

My company's security dept briefly (briefly!) put GCC on the banned software list. Yes, that GCC. Buncha big brainlords in that dept.

How did that work out for them?

Probably took them some time to clean up all of the the Work Stoppage tickets that every dev in the company filed, lol.

I've been doing consultancy for OSS development and one in-between company asked me to sign a contract that had a random clause in it somewhere that banned the use of OSS for work.

When I pointed this out, they said "just ignore that part".

Nope LMAO!

...if you are told in writing (say over email) to ignore a part of the contract, can you do that? Does that part no longer apply?

You can strike a clause and then both parties countersign next to the strike mark on all copies and it will hold up in court.

Even so I would advise you to have the lawyers re-draft the entire thing.

You can change a contract before you sign it

Let the other side know, ensure you make the change clear and initial the change. 8f they sign the contract too, your change sticks

In my country, anyhow

It took a while to point out all the other stupidity in the contract (this wasn't the only part, just the most blatantly silly) and I ended up taking another one.

Enable the secret built in adblock

>just install the fucking extension

...and this is/was the true Firefox way. You don't need to get some other browsers on the same engine made by shady companies. You have powerful plugins.

This feature ships in Firefox for a few years IIRC? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

I agree with the other person though that you should install uBlock Origin in Firefox (which works better there than in Chromium based browsers) and never look back.

Firefox supports policies for enterprise deployment, the ability to install extensions (like uBO) has been available for a long time:

https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#extensions

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Deploying-uBlock-Orig...

Is this a real question?

It takes literally two seconds to install uBlock Origin.

You can even preload it by baking in the xpi file.

It doesn't ship with a blessed adblocker, but firefox + ubo is still the gold standard.

If you are unable / unwilling to install an extension, Librewolf includes and enables uBlock Origin by default.

https://librewolf.net/

It is a Firefox fork with sane, user-respecting defaults. Of course it breaks sites that do not respect their users' privacy / agency.

If its first concern why would you use a browser that has ben caught injecting affiliate codes?

Note: that browser is Brave, I think the downvoters might have been confused

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