Vivaldi is not private, or open source. It is also a fork of Chromium. If we are going to name forks, then Librewolf or GNU Icecat are better browsers by a mile.
Understandable, but you'll stick out like a sore thumb. Why not randomize in a way that makes you blend in. Like for example, enable "privacy.resistFingerprinting" and randomize other metrics not protected already. With something like viewport, I kinda understand randomizing (from a bank of known common viewport sizes for a given platform)
The point to my original comment is fingerprint of extensions isn't straightforward or free, ie requires intentionally designing a fingerprinting technique tailored to identify its behaviour.
CreepJS can really only detect Chrome extensions and very few Firefox ones. On Firefox, it can detect NoScript but not uBlock for example. This isn't to say that uBlock can't be fingerprinted, just that it hasn't yet in CreepJS. Some extension don't touch the DOM at all or produce any fingerprintable behaviour to the web page, so there for can't be detected. Some don't produce weird behaviour until a user interacts with some element in the extension or webpage.
Disabling JS helps reduce the many many other fingerprintable metrics and replaces it with one. One that is rare, but not uncommon in the worlds of I2P or Tor.
That is not true. On chrome, they could be fingerprinted using the way that extensions load remote assets (which I dont think is still possible). On Firefox, that has not been possible (maybe ever but at least for a while). The way that extensions are fingerprinted requires detecting the way they interact with the web pages DOM, which is not something many extensions do.
Does icecat use a custom user config that provides more privacy/security? I see on their page they package it with some preinstalled extensions (JShelter being of interest but only helping to increase the fingerprintability of your browser). All I know about it is that it is a GNU drop-in Firefox replacement (since it is a fork), but it most likely doesn't enable privacy.resistFingerprinting or many of the other things available in the Firefox config. You will not have anonymity on your proposed setup, nor even using something like the arkenfox user.js which provides much better privacy and security than the loose defaults of Firefox. I would instead recommend Librewolf, or even better Mullvad browser.
We do not need armed representatives of the state to have a peaceful country. Cop training is designed to create violence and escalate. Cops are tasked with jobs they are not qualified for, like interacting with disabled people. Cops are violent, cops are slave catchers, cops are used to stop social revolution and to jail/kill political dissidents. They murder, pillage, rape, and justify their violence as "needed" as if violence has ever solved the problem of "crime". Crime is only a symptom of the system, and cops exist to mask those symptoms from the consciousness of the machine. Their "necessity" is far oversold. Any number of more specific and useful specialized jobs could be created to fill the role of cops. Fun fact: on average (between the states) cops only get 500 hrs of training (before they get to shoot civilians).
Still think the cops can be "fixed" by simple policy change (which requires ignoring the systematic issues with the police)? In 2005, the supreme court made a landmark ruling that boils down to "the police do not need to enforce the law, we leave it up to their own judgment" (read more: Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales.
VSCode (or the base app used by it) is open source (see: VSCodium). It has a similar relationship to Chrome and its base Chromium, where assets and tweaks are added to brand the product. You may have been trying to say "a great open source, VSCode alternative" and I misunderstood. Just commenting to remove ambiguity.
Sometimes I wonder if the brainworm I have is happy and wellfed. I hope it is cozy. One day I will dispose of its natural ecosystem and replace it with a Walmart supercenter and the accompanying slave barracks.
Nah, waiting for a Mint ISO which fully supports Wayland first. Cinnamon is close. X11 is just so bad for security and it sucks that there is no KDE (or GNOME) ISO from Mint. IMO, Ubuntu (the base of Mint) is closer to "un-free" than any other major distro rn. It is hard to legally make derivative distros without getting shutdown (see: Whonix legal issues with Ubuntu)
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