# Pale Moon Browser Spyware Mitigation Guide

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After configuring Pale Moon according to this guide it's rating changes like so:

### Spyware Rating: Medium => Not Spyware

The first thing to do, after you have downloaded Pale Moon, is to turn off your internet connection. Then install the browser and change the homepage to something else. In the "options" dialog:

The next step is to disable update checking, you can do that like this:

Finally, you should set the following options in about:config:

Spyware Feature | about:config flag | about:config value
--- | --- | ---
Addon Blocklist | extensions.blocklist.enabled | False
OCSP querying | services.sync.prefs.sync.security.OCSP.enabled | False
OCSP querying | security.OCSP.GET.enabled | False
OCSP querying | security.OCSP.require | False
OCSP querying | security.OCSP.enabled | 0
Geolocation | geo.enabled | False

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