…and now it’s broken :(
I’m the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.
Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I’m nearly done with an IT Security degree.
TL;DR I am a nerd.
…and now it’s broken :(
Fingerprinting is a complex beast and nearly impossible protect against. RFP (created and upstreamed by Tor Browser) protects and normalizes most fingerprintable metrics (timezone, display viewport dimensions, user agent, audio devices, installed system languages/fonts, etc) to a stable value for each Firefox version. Canvas is the only metric which is randomized. The purpose of this is to create a shared stable browser fingerprint for all RFP users, creating a crowd for people to blend in with each other.
While RFP is strong, its anti-fingerprinting strategy was created for Tor Browser, which users are not supposed to customize. The same can not be expected of all other Firefox users, resulting in most users being much easier to distinguish from each other. RFP also can cause some site breakage and doesnt offer a granular way to toggle specific features per website (eg. Canvas protections breaks your webcam in conference calls).
There is no good solution. Best options are use Firefox (or a fork like Librewolf) for casual use, and Mullvad/Tor Browser for more critical situations. Always use uBlock Origin (except with Tor).
On the Chromium-side, Cromite and Brave randomize some fingerprintable metrics, but they aren’t as exhaustive and aren’t upstreamed to Chromium (for obvious reasons).
Online tests of uniqueness are skewed by the population who uses them, aka privacy-conscious aren’t the typical user even if a dataset overrepresents.
My point was introducing Canvas noise isnt going to make you less fingerprintable, actually quite the opposite. Firefox’s RFP is much better at normalizing fingerprintable metrics and is native. Canvas is one of many many other fingerprinting vectors.
If you go the route of trying to protect against fingerprinting through randomization, use the extension JShelter which seems to do much more noise than Canvas blocker does. I am still very skeptical of it (and other anti-fingerprinting extensions) because of how complex fingerprinting is.
Not an exhaustive solution which results in easier unique fingerprinting. Plus Firefox already randomizes Canvas noise with both FPP or RFP modes (FPP is default).
Classic rap song at this point.
AI stuff is banned in this community.
It tastes like dirt.
Both Firefox and Chromium support native Wayland.
Also, this might lead you in the right direction for remote Wayland apps: https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs
You could set up Wayland probably. Just make sure you use GNOME (Mutter) since it is the only Wayland DE that protects the screencopy API.
Docker guest still shares a kernel with host. Use a custom OCI runtimes like kata-containers (VM) or gVisor/sydbox-oci (unprivileged application kernel) to reduce the kernel attack surface and protect against privelege escalation.
Eventually it’ll trickle down.
No, it is not a proxy for another search index/engine.
Yes, you can add Brave search to your other browsers.
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Pic: The picture has a diagram showing water above freezing being flowy and liquid, and below freezing being rigid and icy. Many people find the sounds Bouba and Kiki to match visually to the look of rounded and pointy shapes respectively.
I wouldn’t stress much. It would take a targeted attack to have actually compromised your phone. It is alright.
Your god damn right.
I am kidding obviously, I stress about people looking at me.
Idk, but I just enable intelligent autohide.
I have no experience with this project. I will check it out.