Oof ouch owie. I wonder if there’s a community for juice here on lemmy?

I love lemmy, people post nitter links :)

Tried what?

Another awesome extension from the people behind LibRedirect :D

(definitely check that one out, it redirects big corpo sites to privacy-friendly frontends, eg. twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit, yt to invidious etc. can’t live without it)

These are literally default search extensions from Mozilla that come with every vanilla Firefox install - some basic digging would’ve told you that (in fact, your very screenshot shows that the extension IDs come from Mozilla). They’re what allows the search options for those sites in Firefox. If you go to search settings and turn those search engines off, they have zero effect on you. Or better yet, simply hit “remove” in those settings to completely get rid of them, which makes them no longer show up anywhere, even about:debugging.

You’re welcome to move away from Garuda; it just wouldn’t change anything. You could also fork the code to remove the extensions by default, but at that point ask yourself why neither LibreWolf nor the Garuda team found it necessary to remove these extensions by default if they were actually a privacy threat (and again, you could just remove them yourself in 5 seconds through search settings).

Honestly, these default search providers could potentially be removed simply because more privacy-focused users have no reason to use such search engines, but that’s something you should take up with the LibreWolf/Garuda team in a polite discussion.

Here, this post could potentially affect Garuda’s reputation for something that’s completely harmless and is 2 layers upstream from them (FF > LibreWolf > FireDragon). It also makes privacy enthusiasts look silly and paranoid.

I understand why seeing these would make you suspicious, but the next step would be to look it up somewhere rather than jumping to a conclusion.

OP, I’m not trying to scold you (and I’m sorry this comment feels that way) . Rather, this is a reminder to everyone here: please do some due diligence before posting stuff.

(P.S. As someone who once also used this distro and browser, I would also recommend to just setup FF or even LibreWolf the way you want instead of using this specialized distro fork. Not for any malicious reason, but simply because important security updates are bound to come late to a fork of a fork.)

https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/265796

here you go, keep in mind that it’s 2 days old so probably best not to comment on it and shake up a pot that’s now settled. just sit back, read and laugh instead

(wish i could give you a properly formatted link that would load the post in your instance instead of booting you off-site, but as of now i don’t think there’s syntax that lets you share proper links to posts, like there is with communities. does each instance just number every post on the network by itself? so far that’s what it’s been looking like to me)

thank god someone else is finding humor in this too. i laughed at the sheer absurdity of half the comments in that thread. people can really easily lose all sense of proportion