/tech/ - Technology★

>>1043081 (OP)

>made a thread that's essentially a post

FUCKK, I keep calling anons out on it, but ended up doing the same. Could have made a firefox thread and brought it up, or just looked at catalog. Fuck I'm too lazy, mod delete if you want. Il keep looking but don't need anons to help.

>>1043085

>made a duplicate thread as well

Just... just.... fuck my shit up right up. I don't deserve to post on this board anymore.

use waterfox, you homo

>>1043099

Is waterfox good? How do I set it up?

You're a nigger for doubleposting, but my negro for posting Haruhi.

>>1043100

If you're on Arch, look for it in the AUR. Otherwise, you should use the Linux binary provided on the website, unless other distros have started packaging it.

>>1043101

Its owned by mozilla? Also should I do a standard setup or custom? I'm a casual ass but I care for privacy.

I'm going custom!

>>1043102

It's made by this kid who was 16 back in 2011, and he still manages it. Completely seperate from moziilla. What it is, is that it mirrors firefox in terms of security enhancements and some feature additions, but to my knowledge stuff like geolocation and webrtc is completely gutted.

>>1043104

Lol, changed geolocation on my firefox when I first installed but only changed the webrtc just now when I looked at a video on invidius. Lol, don't even know how webrtc works or if this waterfox thing is legit but il try it out. Weird how it can mirror so much firefox stuff and get away with it. Anyone here ever snoop the code to see if there are any backdoors like in firefox?

I looked up, what I found is the Mozilla Information Trust Initiative (which happened soon before they gloated about how cool their new "curated news system" was, and how it didn't infringe on privacy).

August 2017

Mozilla Joins George Soros’s Efforts In Launching A Strike Against “Fake News”

Mozilla and fact-checker engine join fight on fake news

>The US-based open source group said it was "investing in people, programs and projects" in a new initiative to actively "disrupt misinformation online".

>It said the "internet's ability to power democratic society suffers greatly" because of fabricated stories

>The group, which is backed by Omidyar and Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist George Soros, said its software is capable of spotting lies in real time, and was used to fact-check a live debate at the House of Commons.

http://archive.is/09j03

http://archive.is/knFbZ

January 2018

"Mozilla Firefox is testing updates that customers fear pivot from its focus on consumer privacy"

https://www.businessinsider.com/mozilla-firefox-testing-updates-consumer-privacy-2018-1?r=US&IR=T (sorry, can't archive)

>Mozilla is currently testing two updates on its Firefox web browser, including a better recommendation tool and sponsored content.

>Both new features are attempts to experiment on popular browser functions Mozilla thinks can be done better and more securely, but they still require sharing data.

>In October, Mozilla informed users that it would be testing a recommendation tool that would collect data and share browsing activity with servers owned by its newly acquired company, Cliqz GmbH. A few months later, in an update on Mozilla's acquisition of website-bookmarking application Pocket, the company announced Firefox would "soon experiment with showing an occasional sponsored story within the Pocket Recommendations section," according to the press release.

http://archive.is/PFXKJ (Testing Cliqz in Firefox)

http://archive.is/9qodi (Update on Pocket and Firefox Integration)

>"Pocket recommendations and sponsored stories were implemented in a privacy-centric way. Neither Mozilla nor Pocket receives any of your browser history to make this experience possible"

>"Users get great stories from the web that are relevant to them, without having to trade their privacy in return."

And then, some articles explaining that some telemetry parameters were being removed (which implies they were activated before).

November 2017

Firefox 58: Mozilla will collect only base Telemetry data (release channel)

>Traditionally, Mozilla collected two sets of Telemetry data of its Firefox web browser: base Telemetry data that was on by default and could be disabled by Firefox users, and extended Telemetry which was off by default for Firefox release builds and on by default for pre-release channels such as Beta or Nightly.

http://archive.is/Wd7l5

Does it sound like it, or was it something else entirely?

>>1043109

DUDE YOU ARE A FUCKING ==LEGEND==!!!!!

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Damn.

>>1043108

Until recently, the userbase for Waterfox is small. I'm very suprised too, since the main reason to use it before was because FF forks were the only way to get x86_64 firefox. Despite that no longer being the case, I've seen a lot more people using waterfox over FF. One thing to caution, waterfox uses the last ESR for FF56.

>>1043112

I've been using firefox 51 for the last year man, not really bothered.

No wait I'm fucking dumb.

>>1043112

What's the problem with the last ESR? Reason being ↑

>>1043122

Reason why I'm asking*

I swear I'm not like this usually.

>>1043122

>>1043124

Well, the current ESR is based on sixty something, and the last one being 56, means that you might run into some problems with websites. Case and point, trying to use some nu-JS sites needed for school dont work well in waterfox, so I have to have a copy of un-googled chromium around.

>>1043126

lol, I was right then, But looking at another thread (The librefox one >>>1012114 )

looks other anons think its better than palemoon, and I tried palemoon once and fucking hated it so they are probably right.

Also thanks a ton for changing this thread from pure disaster to helping me get a better search engine. Its anons like you and the guy who actually linked the thing I was looking for, that make me come back to this site.

>>1043128

Looks like other anons*

I have to be more tired than I thought or something, goddamn.

gnu/icecat is pretty good alternative since firefox started pumping in ads and crap in their browser. but they only have old versions for non free operating systems since they do not want to use proprietary toolchains

>>1043128

You're welcome. Being frank, the web is very bloated today, so as long as the waterfox autist keeps backporting patches, you should be good. I might spare the guy a tip since it's about the only open source project, barring the software on my home server, thats made my life better in a direct fashion.

Waterfox isn't any better: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox.html. Use Palemoon or IceCat.

>>1043099

>>1043100

Might as well just use Firefox:

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

>>1043167

Palemoon is horrible.

https://notabug.org/themusicgod1/cloudflare-tor/src/master/what-to-do.md

Ctrl+F and find Palemoon

Use cyberfox

>>1043167

>>1043180

Stop shilling your nigger blog.

>>1043217

Not mine

>>1043217

Fuck you. Online Spyware Watchdog is a total bro.

>>1043126

Man I'm running the most recent firefox and it still very often does not render pages properly. Keeping chromium around to use pozzed websites is just something that has to be done these days.

>>1043217

nigger, he's doing actual work though it's not that up to date.

he should also mention that icememe is just mozilla debranding to make it compatible with GNU system (being the copyrighted icons => copyleft icememe) and poorly tailored compileflags that at one point had the marketplace and ff pocket and a bunch of telemetry which is my reason to not even use it again. It also had privacy badger by default that at one point whitelisted cookies for jewgle to track me despite my cookies being turned off and it turned it the fuck on and even allowed third parties back in.

waterfox is meme made by a winfag and only could release binaries for winfag without even the source code hosted anywhere for loonix. the old icon was an homage to a drowning stickman. cyberfox was better but just the better shit.

can't even patch a single CVE himself so had to always rely on forking the latest and still in support ESR.

palememe is the only good browser but it's sorosed so it isn't anymore. the dev does Defense-in-Depth and at one point made security update for severe exploit way faster than google/firefoxaurora does.

>>1043220

seriously hope you're using librefox over that in the very least it might wipe your history, settings, and probably bookmarks so use with caution

>>1043249

Dude, you should put more time into making your own fucking search engine then just saying the obvious. Also, still using version 51, lol.

>>1043132

Fucking too good to be true, damn nu-firefox!!!

>>1043205

Never heard of it, is it good?

>>1043167

IceCat? Librefox? Goddamn there are so many.

i have no words to succicently describe how retarded this post is. are you a fucking bot. let me try:

>Every fucking webscale piece of shit corporate cancer website now has a bar saying:

>WE'VE UPDATED OUR """"PRIVACY POLICY"""" XDDD CLICK HERE TO SEE

And if for some fucked up reason you actually went to look at it, you'd see something like this:

>Hi goy we reserve the right to do this and that and change this and that without notice. We totally don't spy on you or anything, that would be illegal and bad for business. We only collect these 3 things even though our retard engineers change what is collected every 5 minutes with their pull requests.

Also Firefox is not real software, it's basically Discord or an Electron """App""". (Apps aren't real software either, neither are webshit).

Do you need any more deconstruction?

>>1043307

Yeah man, was firefox always an app or was it just the new versions? Also is tor actually anonymous or is it just a meme?

>>1043252

>icememe is just mozilla debranding to make it compatible with GNU system

Anon, that's Debian Iceweasel not GNU Icecat.

>>1043298

Librefox is dead now.

>>1043321

What!? How the fuck did that happen? WHAT!!

>>1043323

https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/119

I don't know but the dev decided to hide.

>>1043324

Can you still download it or did the dev just quit? Also can people still work on it outside of github or is it dead dead?

>>1043325

You can fork it of course. But the dev doesn't appear to care anymore.

>>1043327

would he care if someone else picked the project up? I don't have a github account so it would be nice if someone here who does have one could ask.

>>1043328

ask him intika@librefox.org

>>1043330

Nice, il see if he responds.

web browsers are fucking dead. even with an up to date firecuck or chrome, you still come across sites that do retarded shit like show a "LOADING XD" wheel and nothing happens. at this point you might as well use an old version of palememe or a 10 year old version of firecuck and if you get pwn3d oh well, better than putting up with the latest versions. or use links which will restrict a lot of what you can browse

>>1043391

never found a page I couldn't access with this version.

>>1043249

Where is the source for the soros aquisition and firefox 52 botnet? Outside the links already posted here.

>>1043452

This directly about ths Soros thing: https://needtoknow.news/2017/08/soros-partners-firefox-ebay-founder-create-censorship-tool/

This about mozilla's BS in general: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html

>>1043455

Thanks for the links, especially the mozilla bs one. But if they have been doing this for years why would any version before 52 be better? Especially since 52 went out in 2016.

>>1043465

They've been getting worse over the years. I think Pale Moon is your best bet these days.

>>1043330

Its been two days, no relies to my email to the address, I can safely say that if he has abandoned it completely, its free real estate for anyone interested in working on it.

>>1043540

Would be nice if someone took it up. We have ungoogled-chromium and FF needs an equivalent.

>>1043324

https://github.com/intika/Librefox/commit/45a4d3ce647b8c896e81ce3e5ac5ddc95ff045e0#commitcomment-32174421

>we need to wait

Someone get on mozilla's ass. It looks like they're doing sneaky shit.

>>1043657

Looking at all the shit mozilla has done over the years, it would be abnormal if they didn't do sneaky shit. As long as the guy doesn't delete everything before someone picks it up, but even then its probably saved on someone's harddrive. So anyone wanting to work on this should be good as long as mozilla doesn't try doxxing and suing them on public platforms.

You all fucking niggers are normalfaggot as fuck.

Stop using shitty Firefox forks that only change the logo and the theme.

Download vanilla Firefox and nuke every http address from about:config.

Then disable anything with the words "telemetry", "safe" or "experiment" on it, disable automatic updates for the OpenH264 extension and for the browser itself.

Install Ublock Origin and enable all the lists that sound useful.

Then check with Wireshark if the browser is sending any funny packets, if not then you're good to go.

Or just switch to Tor Browser and stop being a fag, because no matter what browser you use, if you're not using Tor, your ISP (and by proxy LE agencies) can see everything you do just the same.

And switch to Loonix or any of the BSDs if you aren't already, because otherwise you're still being spied on no matter what you do.

>>1043180

Trash website written by a moron with no idea what he's talking about

>>1044719

Explain why.

>>1044725

The guy gets political in certain places, and isn't very specific with a lot of stuff. But Its still some solid advice on many popular programs. Still wouldn't mind hearing why from the other anon.

GNU IceCat is the only good browser.

>>1045727

>using furryfox

>using furryfox with an extra layer of bureaucracy on top of it

shiggy diggy

>>1044725

Standards are applied inconsistently, standards are unclear in the first place, lots of "trust me dude" hidden in between data, and very questionable interpretation of data in some places.

>>1045842

The site is written by many people.

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