Hello. I bet you may be aware of that it is not that wise to use Konqueror as a webbrowser these days, but here is another reason not to – and it also applies to the internal browser in Akregator:
Despite proxy settings pointing to Privoxy, as well as Easylist+Easylist Privacy, Easylist Germany, Fanboy List and quite some other lists enabled in the ad blocker settings according to https://panopticlick.eff.org/ neither Konqueror 17.08 nor Akregator 17.08 effectively block trackers. I brought and I will be bringing this up with upstream as well: Bug 387549 - According to panopticlick 3.0 test does not protect against trackers https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387549 Bug 387550 - According to panopticlick 3.0 test does not protect against trackers https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387550 By all means, I suggest avoiding using the internal webbrowser of Akregator and Konqueror for any sites that track, only sites like bugs.debian.org or bugs.kde.org and so… are still fine to use. I may switch to Firefox for RSS feed reading. I understand that this could be a hard to fix issue. The browser issue. But it is important to address. And upstream recognized it by choosing privacy as default as a goal. I think it would be best to adopt the technology behind uBlock Origin. It just does its job. Thanks, -- Martin
