In this regard, it is not enough to set the browser so that all #cookies and other memory are #delet in the #browser when you close it and therefore this is almost unnecessary?
#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.
@voxel@privacy This video explains that it's not just #Firefox users being affected by the delay, but #Safari, #Edge, #Brave and even #Chrome itself. It also has nothing to do solely with the #browser you use, but rather a combination of that and your #ad blocker. #Google's testing this with different groups of people, that's why changing your agent string seems to help.
I am tempted to start using the @Vivaldi browser but then I looked* at the diversity in the underlying technology and I think it is better to promote and start using @firefox :firefox: more.
Or should we leave it to #Google :omya_google: and #Apple :apple_inc: only❓
I'm curious 😅 @Vivaldi why not use SpiderMonkey and Gecko❓
Good news! Brave for Android now let's u use your favorite uBlock Origin Blocklists!
Under Settings > Brave Shields & privacy
Can you now add custom filterlists and edit Brave's default selection of the already avaible filterlists. Some of you now that this was possible before too (via brave://adblock) but at this time it had no UI and wasn't a official feature, now you can easily add, remove and customize fiterlists via the the settings.
One day after launching Vivaldi on iOS, Vivaldi is the top iPad app in Norway and #5 on iPhones. Not a bad start at all. We are on the list in many other countries as well.
Make sure to share the great news with all your friends! @Vivaldi is now available!
Little Rat - a browser extension for monitoring other extensions
"Little Rat is an open-source extension designed for network traffic monitoring. Easily view, monitor, and block traffic from other Chrome extensions on a per-extension basis."
I use it myself and I think it's a very useful extension for everyone who uses more than just few extensions for different purposes and don't fully trust them that they send no data as the developer promises, this extension can monitor the network and act as a firewall per-extension basis.
I heard of this methode of Tracking before, but never knew that this was it's name, anyway. As I searched for it, I found this article from Brave which gives a very easy to understand explanation of Bounce Tracking, I recommend reading it.
I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.
"When you’re tracked online, a tracker, such as a cookie or a tracking pixel, is inserted into the code of the website you’re visiting. These tracking technologies could be owned by advertising and marketing companies, government agencies, or other monitoring authorities. Usually the owner of these websites agrees to sell your data to advertising companies in exchange for whatever service the advertising company provides.
It is believed that your data is shared with as many as 70 third parties when a website has embedded trackers. Furthermore, Google has trackers on more than half of all online traffic."
@richard yes there are more, yesterday? I shared these in a thread someone else started
edit to add: I a pretty sure there are even more
"In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands." https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/
"When beginning the journey of restoring digital privacy, some people get overwhelmed with all the work involved, and perhaps give up. Don’t let that be you. Understand that you don’t need to do everything right away. Instead, start small and go step by step at your own pace. With each step in the process, you get more security and control over your personal data, which is a small victory." https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/
stop using #tabs and your #browser#history to save #links. i shouldn't have to explain why, but i will. you're gonna lose those tabs when your browser crashes (WHEN.). browser history should be cleared often. don't depend on that.
After 11 years and 15 days from 2012-07-12, I am proud to present the first real release of MoeNavigator - a web browser written from scratch in C++. Its engine (called MoeNavigatorEngine) is also written from scratch:
ICYMI: Bromite #browser hasn't been updated at all for more than 6 months, so be careful if you're considering to use it on your #Android smartphone because of anti-fingerprinting features.
Instead, check out the fork of Bromite called Cromite https://github.com/uazo/cromite which also uses some features from Ungoogled Chromium and even Graphene's Vanadium. It is still at early stage and bugs are expected, but make sure you're not using Bromite. #Privacy#FOSS#OpenSource#Tracking
Ich habe schon viele Browser durch und viele haben ihre Vor- und Nachteile. Zur Zeit benutze ich Edge mit dem verbesserten Bing, weil ich ChatGPT4 + Internetanbindung testen wollte ohne 20 Dollar im Monat für einen kleinen Spaß auszugeben. Mittlerweile hat Microsoft die KI auch hart gestutzt. Zumindest kommt es mir so vor....
@b0tch Auf meinem PC läuft #Linux und als #Browser benutze ich den #Firefox und #Chromium. Habe eine Zeitlang mal #Brave ausprobiert, hatte mit dem unter #KDE aber Probleme und ihn daher wieder runter geschmissen.
A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team (Jeff Fortin T. (@[email protected])) (mastodon.social)
A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team;...
Welchen Browser nutzt ihr? German
Ich habe schon viele Browser durch und viele haben ihre Vor- und Nachteile. Zur Zeit benutze ich Edge mit dem verbesserten Bing, weil ich ChatGPT4 + Internetanbindung testen wollte ohne 20 Dollar im Monat für einen kleinen Spaß auszugeben. Mittlerweile hat Microsoft die KI auch hart gestutzt. Zumindest kommt es mir so vor....