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72 lines
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# Firefox Privacy Settings
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Go to Settings.
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## General
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#### Files and Applications
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- Always ask you where to save files
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#### Browsing
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- Recommend extensions as you browse: Off
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- Recommend features as you browse: Off
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## Home
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#### Firefox Home Content
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- Shortcuts > Sponsored shortcuts: Off
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- Recommended by Pocket: Off
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- Snippets: Off
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## Search
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#### Default Search Engine
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- DuckDuckGo or add any other privacy respecting search engine.
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#### Search Suggestions
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- Provide search suggestions: Off
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## Privacy & Security
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#### Enhanced Tracking Protection
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- Strict
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- Send websites a “Do Not Track” signal that you don’t want to be tracked: Always
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#### Logins and Passwords
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- Ask to save logins and passwords for websites: Off
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NOTE: Never save passwords in browsers. Use a password manager instead. Check out [recommendations, alternatives & reviews](https://github.com/the-weird-aquarian/privacy-settings#recommendations-alternatives--reviews).
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#### Permissions
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- Warn you when websites try to install add-ons: On
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#### Firefox Data Collection and Use
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- Turn off everything
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#### Security
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- Turn on everything
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- Certificates >
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- Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates: On
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#### HTTPS-Only Mode
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- Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows
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#### DNS over HTTPS
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- Enable secure DNS using: Max Protection >
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- Choose provider: NextDNS/Cloudflare or select Custom and provide URL for other secure DNS from [this list](https://www.privacyguides.org/dns/).
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Example: For Quad9, enter https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query
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## Further Hardening
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- For further hardening of Firefox, check out [arkenfox user.js](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js). |