HAhans_castorp·Jan 16, 2026
It does if you look into the README for Firefox
https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/tree/mai...
In Just the Browsercorbindavenport
just-the-browser
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corbindavenport / just-the-browser
just-the-browser
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
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4Mentions
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What it is
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
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| Jan 16, 16:00 | 2026-01-16 16:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 17:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 16, 17:00 | 2026-01-16 17:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 18:00 | 2026-01-16 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 19:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 16, 19:00 | 2026-01-16 19:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 20:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 16, 20:00 | 2026-01-16 20:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 21:00 | 2026-01-16 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 22:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 22:00 | 2026-01-16 22:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-16 23:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI dont understand the need for an entire website and shell script installer when all it does is download 1 file and put it somewhere.
For anyone else on firefox, save yourself some effort and just download this https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...
In Just the BrowserIt's a pretty simple project, and the license is MIT. Wouldn't be hard to let them know what's missing: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser
In Just the BrowserFor anyone interested
This is the shell script it runs on Mac/Linux: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...
For FireFox it downloads this: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...
{
"policies": {
"DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
"DisableTelemetry": true,
"DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
"FirefoxHome": {
"SponsoredStories": false,
"SponsoredTopSites": false,
"Stories": false
},
"GenerativeAI": {
"Enabled": false
},
"SearchEngines": {
"Remove": [
"Perplexity"
]
}
}
}
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