firefox-privacy-restorer

A script to modify your Firefox preferences to disable telemetry, built-in advertisements, and data collection anti-features.

The changes this script makes can all be done manually via about:config, but this becomes tedious and impractical across multiple machines and Firefox installations.

Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

Why?

Mozilla has recently made some decisions that many members of the community believe have betrayed their trust in the browser, and as a result the need for a privacy-respecting alternative was created. After some investigation, I learned that it was possible to achieve this goal without switching browsers by modifying some settings in about:config, and decided to create this script to automate the process.

This is still a work in progress, and feedback and other contributions are welcome.

Usage

Linux/macOS

To start, first clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/shawnanastasio/firefox-privacy-restorer
cd firefox-privacy-restorer

Next, simply call the script with python3 (you may need to download this from your package manager).

$ python3 firefox-privacy-restorer.py

If you are prompted to select a profile, simply enter its number (or leave blank for all) and press enter.

$ python3 firefox-privacy-restorer.py
Detected multiple firefox profiles.
Please pick which one(s) to use:
1. /home/shawnanastasio/.mozilla/firefox/3pa6py6n.default/
2. /home/shawnanastasio/.mozilla/firefox/c4pnubpd.default/
Choice (1-2) [all]: 1

Firefox user.js profile successfully updated! Please restart Firefox to apply changes.

After the script is done running, simply restart Firefox to apply the changes.

Windows

Windows support is currently untested, but should work. Standalone .exe binaries are planned in the future.