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by ajvs 4y ago
I have an older XPS and I'd never buy a newer one with 4K display - too much battery life consumption for marginally better results.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Messaging is a hugely complex with the amount of features users expect nowadays. Best to integrate an existing FOSS solution and customise it to your particular needs e.g. Matrix, XMPP, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, etc.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Reddit and other social media has largely replaced it I'd say (not to the same quality though).
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by ajvs 4y ago
What torrent clients offer native I2P support?
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by ajvs 4y ago
That's never been a requirement. There exists SPV to verify cryptographic signatures without downloading a blockchain.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Whilst I agree that external moneyed interests control the US government to a large degree via the aforementioned mechanisms, this is not what people refer to when they say Deep State. Deep State refers to government employees who hold a
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by ajvs 4y ago
uBlock Origin is exactly the type of extension which blocks these malicious webpages.
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by ajvs 4y ago
You do realise uBlock Origin doesn't send the URLs you visit to anyone and it's open source so you can even check this yourself?
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by ajvs 4y ago
Which prevents powerful privacy-enhancing open-source extensions like uBlock Origin, LibRedirect and Redirector from existing on iOS.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Probably referring to the fact that browsers on iOS are just basically reskins of Safari.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Alternatively people can use uBlock Origin and simply block all remote web fonts. It'll break some sites which use fonts to replace icons, but the add-on can easily be disabled for those specific sites.
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by ajvs 4y ago
AppImage is sufficient.
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by ajvs 4y ago
> I could go on, but I'm definitely leaving gnome/gtk apps behind. I've eyed KDE Plasma which could give me everything I ever wanted from a DE, but I was using Ubuntu/gnome because it was mainstream enough that everyt
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by ajvs 4y ago
Their whole point is that it's not a fair playing field, so independent companies don't stand a chance. Therefore even decently sized companies like Mozilla have to suck on the teat of the Big Tech behemoths.
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by ajvs 4y ago
It's not either/or. Tor Browser has many defaults that it asks you not to change, so that all Tor users look the same. The changing IP address however makes you look like a different user.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Congratulations, you've made yourself unique and thus easy to track. Use the resistFingerprinting preference in Firefox or just use Librewolf - they automatically enumerate a standardised set of accepted languages that a large userbase
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by ajvs 4y ago
That's just one of many ways to fingerprint you. This blog post is only concerned with showing you how they are eliminating a different one.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Unless filtering algorithms are transparent, can be configured by users and errs towards allowing speech that is acceptable globally instead of just in Silicon Valley, then it just incites feelings of biased censorship.
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by ajvs 4y ago
It's a legit usecase for Single-Sign On providers. However this functionality has been mainly abused by ad trackers, and has thus been curtailed.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Google would still have to fund Mozilla to prevent more anticompetition charges being levied their way regardless. uBlock Origin is a far greater threat since it blocks the more powerful JavaScript-based tracking, and you can see exactly ho
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by ajvs 4y ago
If your browser is set to update automatically, then yes you'll get this feature. It's not a flag being switched on remotely, it comes with an update.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Probably yes, but it shouldn't be difficult to get an exception by posting a request to the Firefox bug tracker. In the meantime users can disable Enhanced Tracking Protection on the specific site with the new SSO provider.
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by ajvs 4y ago
Yes these are each subsets of State Partitioning[1], of which cache has also been partioned in Firefox for some time now. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...
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by ajvs 4y ago
Dark Reader extension has made me never notice this was a thing.
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by ajvs 4y ago
ETP Strict
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by ajvs 4y ago
It shouldn't. "Exceptions are made for cross-site cookies when they're needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers."[1] [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/securit
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by ajvs 4y ago
Total Cookie Protection is the same as the Tor Browser's first-party isolation sandboxing - third-party cookies can't be used to track you across sites because they're only accessible within the domain they were created on. S
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by ajvs 4y ago
Allo? I think you confused this with something else if you're referring to Google Allo chat app.
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by ajvs 4y ago
AKA XPrivacyLua
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by ajvs 4y ago
Secure Camera by GrapheneOS[1] is what you're looking for. It's built on the latest CameraX API, which means it supports all the modern sensors. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.graph

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