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Formerly worked with DuckDuckGo My advice: Install ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chro
by niftylettuce 6y ago
Formerly worked with DuckDuckGo
My advice:
Install ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Install these extensions:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
https://github.com/ilGur1132/Smart-HTTPS https://github.com/ilGur1132/Smart-HTTPS
There is also a Chromium extension that lets you install from Chrome Web Store: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
Set duckduckgo.com as your default search engine with a blank home page. But you could also use @pkrumins home pages of https://techurls.com https://techurls.com or https://finurls.com https://finurls.com as nice home pages.
Use Mullvad VPN: https://mullvad.net/ https://mullvad.net/
(They are EVEN available on F-Droid now, which is AMAZING)
Security harden your Android device: https://niftylettuce.com/posts/google-free-android-setup/ https://niftylettuce.com/posts/google-free-android-setup/
Security harden your Mac: https://gist.github.com/niftylettuce/39597a7b3bc0660ffe1e09d77588bcf6 https://gist.github.com/niftylettuce/39597a7b3bc0660ffe1e09d...
P.S. If you need email forwarding for your domain name, you can use something I made. https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net - it is 100% open source.
Follow me @niftylettuce on GitHub and Twitter for more
- RandomBacon 6y agoWhy ungoogled-chromium over Firefox?
- niftylettuce 6y agoFaster + less bloat
- accelbred 6y agoAd blockers' functionality has been limited on chromium due to changes in the extension API, though
- what_ever 6y agoI don't think that has taken place yet? Disc: Googler
- whycombagator 6y agoMostly agree, one nice thing about FF is containers.
- FalconSensei 6y agoThat's something I really miss on chrome-based browsers
- verandaguy 6y agoDisagree on most points, actually: >Faster, less bloat Stock Firefox doesn't actually have that much bloat, and it's not noticeably slower than Chrome on reasonably modern hardware (i.e.: most page loads are near-instant, same as in Chrome on a good connection). >Extension support for Chromium is way better too Until Google decides that your extension is unworthy of being in their store. This notably happened with Pushbullet quite recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168874 ... Until Google inexplicably restored it a few days later, but not before lots of accusations were thrown around. --- IMO it's also worth noting that ungoogled-chromium is (obviously) an unofficial fork of Chromium. Google may at any time change Chromium so substantially as to either require Google integration at some fundamental level for even the most basic functionality, causing too much work for such a low-profile effort to continue, or just make Chromium closed-source. With Firefox, that risk doesn't exist because of the business motivations of the company that develops it.
- niftylettuce 6y agoAs I said in other another comment, I'm a power user. And by power user I mean probably 10x the normal standard of what a 10x power user means. Tooling is everything to me; which is why I prefer this over anything else. I'm very biased.
- jnkl 6y agoWhat does that even mean? Ten times? Tooling is everything?
- johntash 6y agoWhen it comes to a browser, I'm curious as well. I often end up with 100+ tabs in firefox before I close them all. I don't think think I'd consider that being a power user, but would a 10x power user simply mean someone with over 1,000 tabs open? I haven't used Chrome regularly in the last year or so, but it would get noticeably slow by the time I had 3-4 windows with 10-20 tabs each. Firefox hasn't really had that issue yet. Years ago though, Chrome was noticeably faster than Firefox. That changed (IMO at least) at some point in the last few years.
- moonchild 6y agoFirefox can run chrome extensions.
- fastball 6y agoWhy ungoogled-chromium or Firefox over Brave? Brave is the only browser that includes strong ad and tracker blocking by default, which is the best way to ensure your privacy on the internet. In fact, every decision I've seen from them makes me think they care the most about user privacy, period.
- niftylettuce 6y agoI cannot recommend Brave due to the autosuggestions-for-profit feature. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842 You can install uBlock Origin in 10 seconds from the GitHub release page (see previous link shared). This is vastly better than anything I've seen for ad-blocking.
- fastball 6y agoAn auto-suggestion is not a redirect. Also that just makes me trust them more – they are the only browser vendor that are trying to find business models that don't involve selling my data or selling out to someone who does.
- niftylettuce 6y agoThe issue is that nothing is as pure as ungoogled-chromium is right now. I've also felt that Brave was slow, and not best for developers. As a power user I'm very biased, so Brave may work better for folks that are not as technically skilled and have no idea how to install from GitHub/brew/etc. Edit: I feel it is slow because it has extra bloat added. Like I said, take my comments here with a grain of salt because I'm a very biased power user. I respect the efforts of these developers regardless of what project it is, the focus on privacy and building something different is truly awesome.
- fastball 6y agoBrave is chromium under the hood. Not really sure why you think it would be slower than ungoogled-chromium. Ditto for developer / power-user experience – it's still chromium. Just with an ad-blocker written in Rust built-in and some other features.
- morpheuskafka 6y agoForwardEmail is a great service, thanks for making it!
- niftylettuce 6y agoThanks! I'm rolling out the following within probably the next 7 days: - All new load balanced infrastructure - Browser extension + API wrapper - Support for pixel tracking blocker (opt-in checkbox or TXT setting) - Smart alerting - Globby/regex support If you follow my Twitter or the GitHub releases you will get updates.
- Gigablah 6y agoDo you plan to have an SMTP relay?
- niftylettuce 6y agoYes, 100%. It is in the works.
- adjagu 6y agoCould you please elaborate as to why you suggest ilGur1132's Smart-HTTPS instead of EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere?
- niftylettuce 6y agohttps://reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/5qnq6j/time_to_stop_recommending_https_everywhere/ https://reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/5qnq6j/time_to_...
- livre 6y agoThat's outdated information. Nowadays you can enable Encrypt All Sites Eligible and the extension will force HTTPS everywhere skipping the whitelist. It'll also prompt you to continue to the HTTP version if HTTPS fails to load.
- niftylettuce 6y agoThanks for the heads up
- the_duke 6y agoSeems a bit off-topic for the concrete issue. Advertising your Twitter for the advice of "switch to somewhat well-known browser X, install these very common extensions and use a VPN" is also a bit ... odd.
- niftylettuce 6y agoPrivacy-focused web browsers; alternative to DDG browser due to this issue among others.
- Gigablah 6y agoI think it’s significant that a former DDG employee is advocating switching away from the DDG browser.
- austhrow743 6y agoAn ex DuckDuckGo employee recommending people use an alternative browser over the DuckDuckGo browser, in a post about the DuckDuckGo browser spying on its users, is about as on topic as you can get; after the current employee giving an explanation.
- smolder 6y agoThey said "worked with" duckduckgo. I'm not clear on what that means. I think they'd have said "worked for" if it was direct employment.
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- livre 6y ago> Security harden your Android device: https://niftylettuce.com/posts/google-free-android-setup/ https://niftylettuce.com/posts/google-free-android-setup/ I haven't checked all links but some things need to be updated, for example Skimmer Scanner is gone from the Play Store and Yalp Store is abandoned and doesn't work anymore, you should be using Aurora Store. I'd also recommend Aegis or FreeOTP+ over FreeOTP for 2FA. NewPipe is better installed from this[1] repository until this[2] issue is solved. [1] https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/ https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/ [2] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/1981 https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/1981
- niftylettuce 6y agoYeah, I do use Aurora Store. No longer use Skimmer Scanner. I have to update that post. Working on a new blog/site and a book (eventually). Thanks for heads up.
- bluehatbrit 6y agoYour "Security harden your mac" guide has a bunch of amazon affiliate links, it would be good to call that out when piggybacking on a post about privacy at least.
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