I thought you were going to say something about destroying all nonfree
software and taking over the world to make it libre...
;p
My battery is broken.
Thank you for all the information, made adjustments to about:config and
installed Privacy Settings / Policy Control add-ons, much appreciated!
In Tor it's set to false.
Yeah me too. :/ My browser version is 49.0.2.
Mozilla actually completely removed the API from Firefox:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/firefox-disable-battery-status-api-tracking
In my Abrowser it was set to "true" by default.
Icecat is by far the browser with the best "privacy settings" by default. If
I remember correctly it even disables by default the weak ciphers like say
rc4
You can easily test it by writing about:config in the address field and then
"rc4"
All the entries should have the values set to
> Frankly, Web browsers are too powerful. It's gotten to the point where they
can basically function (and, in some cases, do function) like entire
operating systems. Total madness.
Could not agree more.
It requires js to work if I understand it correctly. In any case 95 % give or
take and
coyote totally correct ;-) ... and is also in Abrowser
Seeing i install that addon & do xtra configs in about : config i had not
noticed that it was by default disabled.
My first action usually is to emmediatly disable the WebRTC leaking DNS
Is this not already disabled in Icecat? I "duckduckgoed" it (duckduckwent?)
and found this:
"Changes since v31.8.0-gnu2"
"- Disabled battery handling in dom"
Link: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8376
I was talking about the battery status option, not Firefox OS... I wanted to
know if JavaScript is needed to access this information.
You couldn't disable JS on Firefox OS.
Otherwise it wouldn't work at all!
So probably no. Otherwise they are just a glorified PDF reader.
SuperTramps addon works well meaning its quite easy to use
& set's about:config
dom.battery.enable user set false
Frankly, Web browsers are too powerful. It's gotten to the point where they
can basically function (and, in some cases, do function) like entire
operating systems. Total madness.
Question: does this have any relevance if JavaScript is disabled?
Stunning, but privacy settings addon may be useful yes?
At least Firefox seems to round to the nearest tenth. Still, I would disable
this API.
Bad Firefox :-(
Use Lynx! :-)
But on a more serious note, this was warned of many months ago by security
researchers. Unfortunately people don't understand just how prevalent online
tracking is and how sophisticated it has become. I think even the people who
make up the standard probably
> Um, Since there are so many things to disable, the question I'm asking
myself not-so-sarcastically is: what's to leave enabled?
A lot. The list is huge. In the attachment my prefs.js to give you the idea.
I purged the irrelevant lines. There is an addon to disable the main crap
though
Um, Since there are so many things to disable, the question I'm asking myself
not-so-sarcastically is: what's to leave enabled?
Like, the minimum functional stuff?
Of course, there's still the problem of having too much of a specific
footprint and thus standing out.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/02/battery-status-indicators-tracking-online
To disable the HTML5 battery status API in Firefox/Abrowser/IceCat, change
dom.battery.enabled to false.
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