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For browsing, Mozilla is probably the least likely to want to do this sort of logging. There are probably more niche browsers that focus on privacy that I'm una
by pserwylo 12y ago
For browsing, Mozilla is probably the least likely to want to do this sort of logging. There are probably more niche browsers that focus on privacy that I'm unaware of too.
As for other Apple products, you can run Linux on a MacBook quite happily (Linus does, after all) and there are some nice Android ROMs which focus on freedom, such as Replicant.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y ago[Citation Needed] Mozilla's "Safe browsing", for instance. If you're going to go with something FF based, at least choose something with such things disabled by default. For instance, I run PM.
- eli 12y agoMozilla safe browsing does NOT phone home with sites you're visiting.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoQuote: > Before blocking the site, Firefox will request a double-check to ensure that the reported site has not been removed from the list since your last update. Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
- eli 12y agoPretty sure it's still actually sending a hash, not a URL
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoThe entity I'm primarily worried about tracking here is Google. And, pretty much trivially, if the URL was added to the blacklist, they have the corresponding URL to the hash. (Not to mention, even if they didn't, their core product is based around crawling webpages. I'd be highly surprised if they didn't have hashes of the URLs they visited.) And, even beside that, URLs are relatively low-entropy. Especially with the path-splitting that safe-browsing does.
- eli 12y agoI think your fears are unfounded, but it's easy enough to turn off.
- zobzu 12y agoFirefox Nightly also has a tracking protection in about:config => privacy.trackingprotection.enabled its off by default seems to also block some adverts when on. (probably because those adverts are also trackers)
- madeofpalk 12y agoWait. People are upset about how unintuitive Apple's preferences are, but Firefox having config hidden away in the advanced about:config is OK?
- zobzu 12y agoNope. Firefox hide away stuff in about:config for testing purposes generally and expose the setting in the user interface after its been tested enough. Sounds logical enough to me.
- metastart 12y agoEpic Privacy Browser - private browser built on chromium for Mac & PCs -- epicbrowser.com (one such niche privacy browser)