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You wouldn’t happen to have all those needed settings changes in a conveniently shareable list, would you?
I'm not able to copy/past my changes from my phone's about:config but here is a great tutorial and most of the parameters I changed:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy
Keep in mind that to use about:config on mobile phone you have to use the beta, dev or nightly version of firefox.
Also this could and will break some sites, I don't know how much you want to harden your firefox but here are the addons I use with Firefox:
+AdGuard home at the DNS level.
You can test all your changes on: https://browserleaks.com/
ICYMI: All the cool kids are using LocalCDN instead of DecentralEyes now.
Woho, Thank you for the tip :) will take a look on how it differs from Decentraleyes, except not being updated for a while !