@alcinnz
We were just coming online to voice a concern that there is a "chrome://" protocol(?) serving javascript in #Tor.

What do people here think of Tor?

If there were to be a new standard we wonder whether it could use the work that Tor have already done?

So there's less a need to reinvent the wheel?

Maybe something that can easily plug into Tor or #i2p? Same way you have a different window for #privateBrowsing in Firefox?

@freedcreative

@dsfgs I haven't bothered using Tor, but I understand it's a very valuable tool. I also understand Tor works at the TLS level, so it should slot nicely into Gemini, Gopher, or whatever.

Personally I like to encourage using a significantly simpler subset of The Web which isn't trying to do everything. In which case Tor Browser doesn't need to do anything, just continue to include Noscript out-of-the-box.

@freedcreative

@alcinnz
BTW Tor does a fair amount of stuff, not just providing NoScript and HTTPSEverywhere out of the box.

Aside from the obvious bouncing traffic through the onionRouter, it has a stepping system for screen sizes so many users have the same browser pane size (if reported by CSS media queries etc). It restricts the type of JS operations to safer ones.

It does a lot to help avoid fingerprinting.

@freedcreative

@dsfgs Yes, I am taking active anti-fingerprinting measures in developing my own browser engines! Thinking about what data I'm leaking and taking active steps against it.

The only thing deducable from Rhapsode's networking traffic is that you're using Rhapsode.

And I will be vague about screensize, etc info as is leaked by media queries to the server. Haven't finished because Rhapsode doesn't have a screen to worry about.

@freedcreative

@alcinnz
Interesting.

So will Rhapsode be a type of onion(?), garlic(?) or something-else-routing browser?

@freedcreative

@dsfgs I'd definitely welcome contributions that way! But my focus is on what to do with pages once they've been downloaded, which keeps me *plenty* busy.

It *would* be good to support onion routing! Advice?

And I'm very keen to support some sort of peer-to-peer hosting, like @cwebber 's DataShards, based on DHT technology!

@freedcreative