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File: 993a24a5a79d865⋯.png (7.75 KB,256x256,1:1,sphere_logo_big.png)

 No.12105

So, I was looking around for a privacy-focused browser, not being completely satisfied with the typical options, and I came across this project.

https://sphere.tenebris.cc/index.html# (Sorry for the bare link. Archive.is didn't seem to want to cooperate.)

It seems to have a shady background in Russian cybercriminal circles. It is closed source, yet claims to have a focus on privacy, while enabling anonymity and freedom. It is based on Chromium, and claims to have removed all of the typically included google spyware, and unverifiable claim for reasons you understand. It has a few decent security features such as identity switching and emulating, as well as an OTR mode, which supposedly restricts the program to saving to RAM.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/sphere.html

Spyware Watchdog seems to have found no obvious security issues. I'm not totally confident in their opinion.

https://ls.tenebris.cc/

As you can see from the above link, there seems to be a paid version of the browser, which from what I can tell predates the more recent free version.

Let me know what you folks think of this program. I'm currently hesitant to use it, but if what it claims is true it would make for a very good option.

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 No.12120

>>12105

This looks far too sketchy in my opinion. If speed isn't critical to you Tor does what that browser does but better, and is open source. If speed is a concern try using firefox with all the settings cranked up to max for blocking js and cookies.

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 No.12124

>>12105

Tor Browser / Firefox remain my favorite options. Falkon looks promising, but really misses alot of features.

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 No.12190

Pull up netstat and find out.

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 No.12221

>>12105

>It is closed source

>It has a few decent security features

Are you sure it actually has them?

>Spyware Watchdog

It's a schizo's blog, ignore and spam "kys faggot" when the owner advertises it.

>there seems to be a paid version of the browser

>I'm currently hesitant to use it

Anon, I appreciate that you actually tried to do some research and came asking for opinions instead of jerking yourself over your clever find, but the browser you're talking about has more red flags than an USSR army parade.

Seriously, there's a reason why open source stuff like TOR, SQLite, and even the Linux kernel is very common in high security applications, and that's because being able to see and change how the code works is necessary if you want to trust it with your precious data.

To help you in your search for a privacy-focused browser, it would be useful to know more about what's you threat model and what you want to do on the web: you'll get very different answers if you mostly want advertisers to fuck off instead of wishing for your text-only anonymous chats to be outside of the police's reach.

Very general advice would be to avoid mainline Firefox and Chrome, the latter for obvious reasons and the former because it's controlled opposition paid for by Google, and to use TOR where possible and where no account is required (but not for obscure stuff you'd like to also do outside of TOR).

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