sinceyouarrived.world/taken has been making rounds lately so I decided to put Konform-Browser through it.

This is a completely new profile with 2 changes I personally made

• tor sock5proxy to protect IP address (you could use a VPN as well ig)

• change the theme to light mode

Out of the 21 data points
Konform hides the following
timezone, gpu, screen resolution & bitrate, battery. the site correctly recognizes I am using firefox-based browser and linux = not specific enough but still a factor for fingerprinting.

Most other data points like time spent on the page, percentage of page scrolled, tab switches, mouse movement and clicks are not identifiers they are pretty useless in terms of fingerprinting. The page shows the theme, cookies and Do Not Track is enabled which are things that can be changed very easily...

Does this make the browser unique enough to track?
A: probably

Will anyone use all of this data points to stalk you around the web?
A: nah not really

Is konform safe and good enough?
A: YES

Also since I used a socks5 tor proxy the IP changes everytime. You can use port forwarding, split tunneling and other VPN mumbo jumbo for the same effect...

Brave was worse in some ways than konform as it exposes timezone, battery, GPU, screen info. Librewolf got pretty much the same results as konform but I didnt have to change the theme to light...

What to do now?
A: tor, mullvad...idk both of them can't be used in regular surfing of world wide web.
Install konform-browser (only available on  for now)
https://konform-browser.codeberg.page/

#konformbrowser #konform #librewolf #firefox #opensource #privacy #fingerprinting #web #foss #internet #browser #surveillance

[Projet] close scheduler

Une extension web pour #Firefox #Librewolf #ZenBrowser qui permet de programmer la fermeture des onglets du navigateur au bout de x minutes.

Pour éviter que ça reste ouvert si jamais vous vous endormez devant un service de streaming ou autre 😃

https://omacronides.com/projets/firefox-close-scheduler

#web #extension

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Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

There is a lot of coverage of the shitshow that is ShitHub this week. And that makes me so happy I moved to Codeberg several […]

Si, comme moi, vous avez #GnomeSoftware qui prend 5 min à charger les données, où si l'extinction du pc met elle aussi 5 min, c'est sans doute à cause de dnf5daemon-server.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gnome-software-is-unresponsive-when-a-repository-with-repo-gpgcheck-1-exists/189222

En l'occurrence dans mon cas c'est la vérification gpg d'un des 2 repos tiers que j'ai déclaré : #vscodium ou #librewolf (très certainement ce dernier vu les alertes lors de la mise à jour)

#dnf #Fedora #gnome

#LibreWolf v150.0.2-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/150.0.2-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

Notable Changes:
- Avoid running setUninstallURL when removing extensions
- Fix some translations not using the correct language code
- Re-enable autoconfig sandbox

There's been a few hiccups and rough edges regarding usage of the new signing subkey here and there, but those should all be addressed by now – thanks for (hopefully ;) being patient with us!

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/150.0.2/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

Niggle that is hard to research...

For anyone running Debian Testing (Forky) and using Waterfox, some video will not play due to Waterfox 6.6.12 not being compatible with ffmpeg v8. It is expecting v7 and I guess there are some videos where the video won't start due to switches, params, or whatever.

My use case was an old Youtube video that I snarfed many years ago and had on my Jellyfin server.

[ Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(progressive), 854x480, 1100 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn (default) ]

Waterfox (v6.6.12) won't play it but Librewolf (150.0.1-1) does. Both are installed from PPA, not flatpak.

Forky currently has: ffmpeg/testing,now 7:8.1-3+b1

New stuff plays fine so I hadn't noticed it since ~Wednesday when this box was re-imaged and moved into.

Apparently the Waterfox flatpak doesn't have this problem (probably has it's own ffmpeg v7 bundled inside or has a flatpak ffmpeg dependency).

I could get into the weeds further to confirm but Librewolf works for now. I'll wait for Waterfox to work through it. 🙂

#Linux #Debian #Testing #Forky #Web #Waterfox @Waterfox #Librewolf #PPA #Flatpak

I am sick and tired of this UTM bullshit added to URL everytime you click a link.

Fortunately there is UTM Eraser extension for that shit.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-eraser/

#firefox #librewolf #utm

I am sick and tired of this UTM bullshit added to URL everytime you click a link.

Fortunately there is UTM Eraser extension for that shit.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-eraser/

#firefox #librewolf #utm