I am absolutely aghast that Firefox would say Firefox is the best web browser. Their chart is, however, open to external audit so it is entirely unimpeachable.
(This is a parody of people who were arguing in favor of an “independent” browser privacy website run by someone paid by one of the browser companies)
A privacy focused search engine without logs or trackers, own index and above all, the special feature to show in the search result the ads, trackers and other crap waiting for us in every listed page....
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I’m guessing they want to cover their butt in case their server is used for something illicit. But even in searching for something as locked down as, say, a Minecraft server, I ran into the same issue.
It’s strange, because generally you can use a fake identity and a masked card to purchase… just about anything, really.
Probably because LibreWolf is most of the way there, and the Mullvad branding + proprietary VPN is more than a bit much. I use(d) the VPN alongside it and found the add-on “hints” regarding the correct DNS settings more frustrating than helpful, too.
Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave’s users
Based exclusively on whether a user had not gone through the Brave’s browser settings and disabled the “Send statistics about my behavior to the Brave corporate HQ” flag.
In other words, the number is useless.
This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.
This argument could be used to tell people to avoid using the Brave browser too. After all, only a minority of people do. The best way to blend in would be to use Google Chrome on Windows 11, and improve no privacy settings.
Unless someone wants to argue that using Brave makes you an acceptable degree of unique, but using advanced tracking blocking makes you unacceptably unique.
Nostr is a public, “all your content are belong to us” platform designed for the transmission of cryptocurrency and increasing its value for its owners first, and privacy dead last.
I’ve trash talked this website before in my head, but maybe I was approaching it as a professional organization instead of more of a blog run by a small group of people.
They aren’t just doing ads dude, it’s a for-profit propaganda machine.
But seriously, Mullvad would do well to switch out their email provider to something that’s not Google. Even though email is inherently unsafe, email through Google is pretty much is unsafe as it can get.
It’s because of the difference in credentials. One is a website positing as having both privacy and cryptocurrency investment advice services, and the other is a random Lemur
Different use case. Those are containers, which have a similar color… But in Chrome, everything is in one container, the colored tabs are just grouped together and those groups can be collapsed to save horizontal space in the tab bar.
I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...
For example, privacy settings on Facebook are available to all registered users: they can block certain individuals from seeing their profile, they can choose their “friends”, and they can limit who has access to their pictures and videos.
We were talking about the definition of privacy, and I was giving an example to bolster my definition of it. We can switch to a different topic if you want, but first I want to cement this definition.
Why do you think they don't show Brave here? (lemmy.ml)
Firefox updated today and I’m wondering why they don’t put Brave in this table, what’s your opinion on this? 🤔
Ghostery Private Search (www.ghostery.com)
A privacy focused search engine without logs or trackers, own index and above all, the special feature to show in the search result the ads, trackers and other crap waiting for us in every listed page....
You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11099621...
VPS suggestions?
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Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Mullvad uses Gmail (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)
Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought (tube.kockatoo.org)
A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.
Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)
I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...
What site can scan sites for trackers?
I once knew a site that could detect and list ALL the used trackers and cross-site cookies and other stuff of any site....