Cloudflare wrestling AI scrapers, not that I disagree, but how Cloudflare comes to decide who or what can access a website? They have a nearly monopolistic, man-in-the-middle position (like in CDN)
@Waterfox has provided build instruction for the Waterfox internet browser 🤩
Prebuilt binaries and packages are great already, including auto-updates, but sometimes when one need to poke at source code or tailor a custom build : Thanks, much appreciated.
@Waterfox has provided build instruction for the Waterfox internet browser 🤩
Prebuilt binaries and packages are great already, including auto-updates, but sometimes when one need to poke at source code or tailor a custom build : Thanks, much appreciated.
It doesn't even mention when Brave silently installed their VPN as a service on your system. Which doesn't get removed when you uninstall Brave. And if you do manually remove it, gets reinstalled on Brave silent automatic update, because that's also a background running service.
It's a panel of tests for browsers. It isn't the clearest what each mean (without doing a little research) and not all categories and subcategories have equal importance. I still like this website though just for the listed information.
I think he sould have included Chromite. Regularly updated and a fork of the abandoned Bromite, which was a privacy-centric project. I still use Firefox, but also use Chromite.
@m33@theprancingpony.in I've been liking floorp and zen. used floorp for a while but i'm giving zen a real try for the first time in a while rn and I think it's my favorite implementation of vertical tabs.
more Blink-based browsers could have been included, there are some even there that are pretty good in privacy and security: top pick is Cromite (can be ran as portable, no install required, inbuilt adblocker based on editable blocklists, very agressive on tls certificate validation (more than anything, including librewolf), native userscript support, datetime and viewport size randomization on each website (i don't know any other browser that can do this), changing http referrer policy and more). Other recommendation ks Thorium (it is made by furries, has some google stuff in it, but it is open-source and constantly updated, though not as fast as cromite, that updates weekly),and Iridium, Falkon
Good article. I use Brave on desktop and android. I like that the adblocking is baked in. I still have to add my favourite addons but that's the beauty of personalization.
Quick question: is the Tor browsing functionality in Brave adequate or should I just stick to the official Tor browser in that regard?
Chrome: Ads infused in browsers core is a leap in the wrong direction.
Firefox: helpless to find a stable income, goes into turmoil for looking forward to AI goldmine.
Browsers are so bloated they are not simple applications, more like a full stack, an operating system for the internet, controled by forces beyond a mere user power and often understanding.
We need trimed down forks of both open source chromium and Firefox. And for a sustainable development, actual donations to those projects.
Yes to be free, safe for privacy, one have to pay a little of the hard earned money.
Gov backdoor in encrypted services, UK, France, Sweden...
What a world to live in because 1. we may (?) actually need that because of bad guys 2. good guys goes bad breaking privacy and service integrity with backdoors 3. bad guys will be bad guys and use backdoors too
It's not just that backdoors are intrinsically targets for bad actors, it's that they don't help. Encryption isn't some magic that only big companies can produce. With off the shelf libraries, it takes a really small amount of code to write something that encrypts and decrypts messages. If Signal has a back door, then a bad person can still use it as a transport for messages that they're encrypting with keys that they're distributing via some other mechanism.
If you do this, then the messages seen via the backdoor will be gibberish. At that point, law enforcement can say 'aha, you're using additional encryption, you're either a criminal or paranoid', but that doesn't really help them much.
Yes of course, thanks for this complement. Anything above the transport will add another layer of obfuscation, and essentially give you more time before a breach.
With that said, it may be such an inconvenience regarding the primary use of instant messaging that I doubt actual bad guys would still use it like that.
Plus symmetrical encryption is good enough for a proof of concept, managing a key infrastructure is out of reach from many.
Anyway that’s a good point you’ve made on your GitHub publication 👍
An amendment to the “Nacrotrafic” law is moving to the French National Assembly. Remind your legislators that a backdoor for the good guys only is not possible.
here is my contribution to the Fediverse: a guide to install a Friendica instance using Docker and Caddy.
That should help new administrators and beginners to go online easily.
Friendica deserves a try, this instance variant is neither mastodon nor pleroma, yet after testing many including Misskey forks I tend to lean on Friendica's side for my instance... will you ?
Like this, it is really good for selfhosting or single user instance on a cheap VPS. And it may scale to many users.
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in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌 • • •Actually a pretty decent review.
There is this though
(Bolding is theirs, not mine)
Then the review page contains googletagmanager, Facebook, and mediavine. Which are all ad/tracking services.
I don't agree with what they said, but everyone has opinions.
I know this is about desktop, but do not use ungoogled chromium for Android, it hasn't been updated in years.
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in reply to Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌 • • •Good article. I use Brave on desktop and android. I like that the adblocking is baked in.
I still have to add my favourite addons but that's the beauty of personalization.
Quick question: is the Tor browsing functionality in Brave adequate or should I just stick to the official Tor browser in that regard?
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