Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[strypey]

I understand the sentiment Chris, but I actually like the way the plug-in  
architecture support the old school UNIX philosophy; many small tools which  
each do one thing, and do it well. A swiss-army-knife plug-in that tries to  
do everything is not necessarily an improvement, and building in lots of  
bells and whistles has lead to FireFox becoming bloated, which is ironic  
considering it began as a solution to the bloat of the SeaMonkey suite. Not  
that privacy/ security functions are bells and whistles, I agree they are  
important. But for example I'd like to see LibreJS functions included by  
default in any free code browser worth of the name, but until the project is  
more mature (both the client-side software and the server-side compliance),  
it's better to keep it as a discreet plug-in which can be installed/ removed  
and enabled/ disabled separately from other functions.


That said, I would like to see a 100% libre, cross-platform browser (on as  
many desktop and mobile platforms as possible), under a unified branding,  
since Firefox no longer really qualifies (EME, TokBox Hello etc etc).  
Cross-platform apps don't solve the problem of non-free OS, but they do make  
the transition to a free OS easier, because at least part of the UI will be  
familiar. The browser is a key app to make cross-platform, because people  
spend so much of their time using it.


One possible candidate is Dooble, has anyone else checked that out? I must  
admit I'm a little dubious of projects still hosted on SourceForge, after all  
the adware and non-free bundling scandals, but Dooble seems legit and  
released a new version recently:

http://dooble.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[christian]

Given the direction in which Mozilla is heading, I would really like to see  
the EFF develop their own browser.

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[tomlukeywood]

the gnu project are already doing this by forking Firefox as icecat(aka  
gnuzilla)

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[Dave Hunt]

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[Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[tegskywalker]

If you missed it earlier, here you go:  
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/privacy-badger-10-here-stop-online-tracking

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[tegskywalker]

Oh and it is licensed under GPLv3:  
https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[nicolasmaia]

I'm currently using uBlock, Disconnect, Privacy Badger and NoScript. Talk  
about overkill!

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[chris]

Wouldn't it be nice we could just implement these features into a browser or  
at least combine the features into a more sane single stable plug-in?

Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF releases Privacy Badger for Firefox (Abrowser) to stop online tracking

[mcz]

I tried a few, now I have these:
https-everywhere
html5 video everywhere
Noscript for some rare js exceptions
Request Policy for redirections
Random agent spoofer for html5 and making tracking harder
self-destructing cookies
ublock origin

And only youtube-dl since the others rely on some activated js at some point.

So this one is similar to donottrack and disconnect?
But with Noscript and RequestPolicy, isn't that enough?
Maybe it's geared towards people who have js on (the normal people, I am  
tempted to say).


I love the idea of this being a built-in feature though.