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  • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Please forgive me, I’m going to keep asking this everywhere I can until hopefully get an answer.

    I love librewolf and I want to use it, but I can’t get it to render the symbols that some websites use to make their UI work. I’ve tried downloading fonts but they’re all mapped to private use area. I think they need to be downloaded on a per website basis but librewolf seems to categorically refuse.

    I really want to stop using brave and I honestly don’t want to figure out arkenfox.

    • SakiEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Since LibreWolf is libre software, it’s likely that a user has freedom to tweak this maybe via about:config. You just need to ask this directly in the LibreWolf community.

      I think I know what you’re talking about, though. Perhaps CSS @font-face is forbidden, because many sites use Google fonts, which allows them to track you.

      If Tor Browser is acceptable, give it a try. While TB too has very strict font restrictions to avoid finger-printing (so that a remote site may not know which fonts your system already has), web fonts are allowed by default. It’s relatively harder to distinguish/track individual Tor users, since TB hides your real IP & by default cookies are per session only.

      LibreWolf shows your real IP, so it’s understandable and reasonable that it wants to be more careful about fonts. Still a user should be given freedom to do whatever, at their own risk. That’s what free software is all about, after all. Just a thought…

    • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure I understand… The symbols?

      Could you give an example?

      Librewolf has stuff cranked down for a reason putting privacy before usability