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Sadly I think even disabling JS entirely would take away so much “blending in” that it still wouldn’t be hard to uniquely fingerprint a user without it. Even CSS (without JS) and standard HTML tags like “picture” can be used to fingerprint now.

Right. I guess there's also a difference between wanting to be as anonymous as possible and wanting to not be tracked too much by some sites.

In some browser profiles I do block JS completely for a few reasons.

• Let's me read a lot of articles. Even articles with supposedly "paywalls".
• Clutter free reading. Does it matter that the remote sites can recognize me based on a unique FP and build a profile ? I'm not too bothered. Should I ?

For other use cases I prefer Tor browser without any added extensions.

IDK about Coreboot, but Android has a completely different userland. The only thing it has in common with Linux is the kernel.

Completely different ? How so ? Last time I did an adb shell I could use ls and find afair.

No issues here whatsoever with other sites, including those that use L.E. certs. Weird. I guess it is a Tor circuit related issue. On another browser without Tor it loads fine.

First link gives an SSL warning for me. Here's the WayBackMachine link https://web.archive.org/web/20240425192244/https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html

Here it is fine for me in a browser on the desktop. Maybe your server blocked or muted something or has some configuration mistake ? Or maybe on your phone app ? Test on a few different browsers on desktop ? Try un-subcribe and then sub again ?

Thanks. Didn't know that Lubuntu did choose for a dot me domain name. TIL the Lubuntu mascot is called ... Lenny.

I've tried the Ubuntu Beta on an old laptop and that gave fatal errors during installation. Tempting to see whether Lubuntu would save the day.

https://github.com/gorhill

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Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought.

If you ever want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which are available to use by all for free.

Kind of agree. Though there is pi-hole and several others. And there's i2p, Freenet (now called Hyphanet) and GNUnet, and similar.

Insightful point. And it does remind me of the corporate purchase of the Don't care about cookies extension for Firefox (And the Simple Mobile Tools for Android). Luckily it was forked. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies Open source FTW!
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I also don't understand it. But now I am wondering if we would not have had those "careless" (indifferent ? ignorant ?) millions of people not blocking ads then Google and others may have started pushing anti-adblock measures years earlier, no ?

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Gladly upvoted to worship honor one of the open source heroes.

NixOS is build on a really cool and impressive concept imho. Did you know an OpenBSD developer did like NixOS a lot ? https://dataswamp.org/~solene/

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down-voted /j

Thanks. AUR seems to only have a Tor browser bin which does not recompile.

Oh, I see :/ Forgot that I'm kind of privileged with using Raspberry Pi (I don't particularly endorse them actually.It just happened years ago). From time to time when I look at other SBC hardware options I do see that the software is not catching up as well as it does for the rpi. Good to hear your story.

One thing you can do with your arch build is use the fingerprinting tool to see how unique you are, then get a new identity, then go back and do it again. Does it now say you’re one of 2 people who have used the tool, or does it show you’re (again) unique? If the latter, then it’s working (at least enough) properly.

Interesting. I would have expected the useragent string to be part of the user configuration files that are automatically created in the browser profile directory. I've not used Tor browser package from Arch yet but curious to do some testing.

I would consider myself an intermediate-advanced user (not quite power user), do you think trying Arch is a good idea at this stage?

Arch Linux used to be pretty difficult to install for new users, but now it comes with a build in installer it requires less reading than before. btw There is Arch for ARM https://archlinuxarm.org/ maybe your orangepi is supported. Distro hopping or just testing another Linux distro can be comfortable on SBC since replacing SD card or USB stick is usually easy.

Maybe better to use cross-post next time. Sometimes people do not cross-post and then the same link will appear five times in the time line for the five identical posts they made. With cross-posting it appears only once. I use Arch, btw