Thunderbird: Free Your InboxHey, it doesn't matter how long it takes you to reach the right destination. Only that you eventually arrive π
Matthias R. Koch@brave Browser FTW π
Buenaventura Luxemburg@manankanchu @thunderbird brave is based on chromium, is run by an ass, and has been doing shady shit since forever.
Well, it does it's job, almost no ads ...
It uses the chromium search engine but not the ad env ...
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)
... and I guess, we're unluckily getting used to corporates with "strange" management π€
@manankanchu @thunderbird upsides of Firefox, in particular with uBlock :) if you want more privacy by default, VPN provider Mullvad has developed a browser based on Firefox in collaboration with the Tor project :)
I guess, privacy is a pretty theoretical thing as of today ... you always have to trust software, network and content to a certain extent ... no guarantees that such browser/whateversoftware, VPN provider or TOR nodes doesn't fiddle around with your traffic π
Parigot-Manchot Ο@manankanchu @prosaluxemburg @thunderbird Tor and other projets are open source. You can inspect them. And they are reliable.
@parigotmanchot @prosaluxemburg @thunderbird
that doesn't help if nodes are monitored ...
@manankanchu @parigotmanchot I mean, https is still not broken. Doesnβt matter what exit nodes do if the traffic is encrypted.
@prosaluxemburg @parigotmanchot
My message is only: stay alert
meta data (IP addresses, fingerprints ...) are as valuable as content.
even with TOR: m-i-m and triangulations are there ...
If someone controls the traffic of the destination IP you're lost and TOR does not help you at all.
Chris Daniel@manankanchu @prosaluxemburg @thunderbird I think the relevant guarantee in this case is that a browser owned by a for-profit corporation will eventually turn evil.
@cjdaniel @prosaluxemburg @thunderbird
that's an indication, not a guarantee π
David Fetter@prosaluxemburg @manankanchu @thunderbird "ass" does not *begin* to cover his consistently terrible behavior over the decades. "Bigot" is more descriptive. So is "guy who foisted Javascript on the world."