Not foss but linguee

Thx for the clarification. Maybe there was just a misunderstanding. I wrote site isolation but meant per-site process isolation in the first comment but added it in the following comment.

Firefox doesn’t have per-site process isolation. That info is from the dev of mull.

I’m not sure what info to take from that linked comment, sorry. I didn’t refer to madaidan or grapheneos.

WebRTC is obviously only a problem if you use it. I think I’ve never used WebRTC in an android browser.

I don’t think that enabling it does anything

Btw on android it’s called rooting not jailbraking. I highly advise against rooting your android as this can introduce security risks. Indtalling another os like grapheneos does not requiere root access.

Bromite is chromium based and has site isolation wheras mull doesn’t have process isolation. Both are hardened browsers and are very good for privacy. If your threat model requires site isolation go for bromite but if you don’t need it, you can go for mull. I think mull is enough for my threat model and I really like its ad and tracker blocking and addon capabilities. You can add any addon with a customized addon collection.

Protonmail needs your IP. If you want to open an account via tor or (proton)vpn (i haven’t checked others), then you still need to provide another mail or phone number

If you download a paper you should know that it has a unique fingerprint. If your cloud gets hacked, and the paper released with your “signature”, it affects you.

Fully agree! :)

The problem is that many people are not aware of the problem and just letting them do what they do will lead to an even darker future. China shows us for years how our future will be shaped if we don’t start fighting against it.

Another thing that came to my mind. I visit frequently archwiki and other tech oriented websites. None of them contain (facebook) trackers. But they’ll contribute to the algorithm that decides which ad i’ll see.

The api abuse is not by facebook. Facebook enables the api but doesn’t abuse it. The extension the user installs abuses it. No need to worry, even if you still use facebook. Just don’t install crap on your computer. If it was solely to ban bad extensions, brave could delist (probably) thousands of extensions.

I wish qwant wouldn’t have so many problems. It could be a really good search engine

Disableing DRM

Tbo, I have librewolf and a hardened firefox and I haven’t seen a website braking.

Or disabling js which will brake a couple of sites.

It highly depends about which algo we are talking about.

Way back when I was on facebook and they introduced their algorithm of content filtering/showing it hid content from friends I didn’t interact with but I wanted to see. I had 200 friends, so there wasn’t much to filter. So no, hiding information from the user is not good in this regard.

Wasn’t that my point in the first place? You need to trust piped. If you selfhost, it’s just you

The chromium licensing might be a problem. Bromite is good but it’s only on android and 1. I’d like to support firefox. I use mull. Bromite doesn’t support idontcareaboutcookies and I hate those banners.

What’s the advantage of pale moon? A very good pre hardened firefox fork is librewolf. All extensions work.

Yes, it’s proprietary but there is no real foss alternative that is actually that good. I’ll have a look into tunlookup but if it’s only for win and mac it’s not that practicle. Everyone needs a solution, at least for android. Reducing the power of google is more important than foss/proprietary and linguee doesn’t abuse it’s power in the sense thst google does.

You can selfhost it, but what’s the point? Don’t you still get all the recommendations from google?

I agree. I support firefox.

What I do not know is which browser or engine is actually better? Because if chromium is actuall better wouldn’t it be benefitial (even for firefox) to fork it and just go their own ways after the fork? But as I said, I have not the expertise to judge that.

If you still use google services like google translate but with another front end, you still give google all the power. You don’t support an alternative and there never will be one, if you still use google.

If you use a different front end you give an unknown identity your ip data. E.g. the piped website. I have no idea who that is. Why should I use that? He can insert any video he likes. It’s different from e.g. newpipe. With newpipe there is no other party involved than you and google. Yes, they could hide something in the code, but you can inspect it yourself.

Or for google translate, you still send the data to google. Maybe not the data when you write it, but as soon as you press enter, google will have that data. You should use an alternative, e.g. linguee, deepl. I’m not saying it’s perfect but it’s better than giving all your data to google, and it’s actually better than google.

The site is nested. Imo it wiuld be better to clean it.

E.g.

Google Alternatives

Google Translate

• deepl. Deepl is …

Youtube

• newpipe. Blabla…

I don’t run a server. I’m just a basic user that sees a “lot of” posts from another instance that I don’t understand or like or want to see.

There are the instances where I can login.

I want to block a federated instance with lemmy.ml.

Spoiler: No it’s not

And proper english grammer would be: “is linux still hard to install?”

In the upper right corner I press on the hamburger icon

Thx!

With lemmur. Haven’t checked it with the website. But it should be the same behavior, because there are different comments, right?

Like !lemmy_support ? Yes, just like a regular user. That’s what I do each day ;)

1. It was imoortant to OP that it’s free and has a client. You may assume that it’s privacy respecting but owning your own domain doesn’t increase your privacy. You will standout and every mail send to @XY.Z is an email to you.

If privacy is important, use PGP or selfhost your email. But the amount of work that is needed is not worth the trouble for an average person.

The chance that you need to recover your account us so tiny that you can neglect it. And if you know that you’re doing shady stuff withyour email account, just selfhosting won’t be enough either.

Not really.

Title is misleading. Fonts won’t be shipped by the host or installed in your browser. I They’ll just make a cookie consent banner and if you don’t agree, you won’t get the font. And because blocking fonts means to “break” websites, you’ll consent. In the end you are just annoyed by GDPR.

I was wondering that for years why they don’t do it. Sad that the article doesn’r state how it’s implemented. But if you have two pdfs that should be the same you probably can get the difference.

For many people email is not really that important. While I agree that it would be better to fully own your email address (domain) it’s just not that important. If I don’t have access to my email, I’ll let my bank know that I use a different mail.

I would pay protonmail 10 bucks a year for my mail address just to support them but they don’t offer that. I only need it for sometimes amazon and who knows. But it’s certainly not worth 50 bucks a year - unless you own a business that highly depends on it. I don’t use it for communication with real people. Just websites that need to prevent spam or want to communicate with me for notifications.

I somewhat disagree. The quality of posts and responses varies but where else would you discuss privacy if not in a privacy forum? :D I’ve also read and learned and shared on e.g. r/privacy.

And upvotes too?

Yes, that’s the result of it but not the reason

I’m not sure if I like this answer. It basically boils down to, everyone wants to cook his own soup.

If you want to have it less customizable, you can build on the same fundament but don’t enable the functionality.

I have only good experience with r/endeavouros

I’ll try it, thx!

Anything is better than facebook :)

I second this. It is really difficult to get along with the different package sources.

I can recommend EndeavourOS which is basically ARCH with an UI installer. As a desktop environment I can recommend KDE because you can customize a lot.