When it comes to the privacy vs usability debate, I come down hard on the side of privacy. Doesn't matter how pretty it is if it's going to get you rubber hosed.

An example of this in practice is eschewing software & services which use privacy and security in their marketing but whose implementations don't hold up under scrutiny, such as Protonmail and Keybase.

A lot of people will defend such products regardless, resulting in a trend I've been thinking of as "privacy roleplaying". It's harmful and needs to stop.

If you're familiar with privacytools.io, by the way, they have a seriously bad problem with privacy roleplaying. I do not recommend them as a resource.

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Would you please elaborate? I thought it was a good resource, specially for mozilla hardening

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I'd consider github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks

The about:config keys we have mentioned on the site are a small subsection of the ones there. I personally use ghacks-user.js and think they're awesome.

That part of the page is due for some updating.

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