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  • The source code is freely available for you to run all the tests yourself. On any browser you like.

    Brave sucks. Peter Thiel can suck the corn out of my shit.

    But, the tests and results are still accurate. *based on fresh install and no config changes. (FF can be hardened well beyond what’s shown)

    As you can see in the results tor/mull/mullvad/librewolf are basically the best for all around privacy and security.

    They’re all based on FF.

    Ps: The guy was doing this long before he went to work at brave. (Maybe that’s why they hired him? Hmmm)



  • The past 2 years I have been collecting seeds from anything I can eat which produces seeds. (Because of cost and because the world is dying) Whether I’ve grown it or whether I bought it at the grocery store. Fruits, veggies, and what some would consider weeds in certain regions. From apples and cucumbers and jalapenos to cilantro (coriander) and wild mustard, chives. I’ve also been discovering what is actually edible that I would never have thought to eat. All those impossible to kill hostas in my yard are apparently pretty tasty.






  • People believe what they want.

    But, you are correct.

    Not necessarily because FF is bad, but because the internet and web standards are often stupid and not privacy friendly.

    Webrtc? Great! (But, by default, it leaks your real IP address even with a VPN). WebGL, web GPU, etc. Sketchy not privacy friendly standards

    But, again. At least FF allows obfuscation either by fingerprint blocking or masking or other config settings. But… it is tedious. And they change flags and flag names constantly.

    FF at least allows you to mod it so you can use it without leaks.

    What irks me is all the telemetry. And this new deal they call fog.

    And the impossible to get rid of add-ons I never asked for. No, I don’t want screenshots built in. Nor amazon, or google, or eBay, or Normandy or opt out studies

    After all the tweaks I make manually (arkenfox user.js is nice, too) it ends up well over a hundred settings to get what I want functionality and privacy wise.

    And, yet, it is still the absolute best of the browsers.

    (Tor, mull, and librefox as well)




  • I use a very old (circa ~2010), very underpowered (6Gb ram because one slot is dead) optiplex 760 with a DP to HDMI adapter to watch movies and live sports on a projector.

    I can watch my pirate streamed movie or sports in one window and do other nerd stuff in another no problem.

    Running Linux mint-xfce with Firefox, ublock, and containers.

    Internet is acquired by tethering one of my old android phones running dnscrypt-proxy and tor (invisible pro), with KDE connect for remote control.