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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"It is now time to fix it for good. A new solution has been proposed: partitioning visited link history. This approach fundamentally changes how browsers store and expose visited link data. Instead of maintaining a global list, web browsers will store visited links with a triple-key partition:

- Link URL. The destination of the visited link.
- Top-Level Site. The domain of the main browsing context.
- Frame Origin. The origin of the frame rendering the link.

A link is only styled as :visited if it was visited from the same top-level site and frame origin (...) This approach guarantees isolation and works well with the web's same-origin policy. The system records only navigations initiated by link clicks or scripts—excluding direct address bar entries or bookmark navigations.

Key benefits of this model include: strong protection against cross-site history leaks, solving for good of many known side-channel attacks, support for meaningful styling within trusted, same-context domains, conforming to established web privacy principles and data protection regulations.

This feature is already implemented in Chrome (v132, behind a #partition-visited-link-database-with-self-links flag). I am confident that in 2025 we are going to have this privacy headache solved once and for all."

blog.lukaszolejnik.com/fixing-

Security, Privacy & Tech Inquiries · Fixing web browser history leaksWeb browsing history powers helpful features like styling visited links differently, allowing users to see where they've been before. While this usability feature provides navigational benefits, it also introduces a privacy risk. The handling of visited links happened to be a silent backdoor of a kind, allowing malicious sites to
#CyberSecurity#WebSecurity#Privacy
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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

@simondueckert Die Artikelserie von @kuketzblog half mir.

kuketz-blog.de/librewolf-daten
Ggf. auch: kuketz-blog.de/browser-welche-

Es wurde #LibreWolf. Mobil #Vanadium auf #GrapheneOS.

Ist auch vermutlich eine gute Wahl aus #privacy & #security-Perspektive.

Allerdings gibt's bei LibreWolf das Problem, dass fast alle Zeitangaben nur noch in #UTC dargestellt werden. Besonders lästig bei Chats, Version Control Systems, Kalender, ... im Browser. Könnte man auch disablen aber offenbar nur als größeres Paket von an sich sinnvollen Anti-Tracking-Maßnahmen.

Diverse Workarounds haben bei mir bislang nicht funktioniert.

Meine Lösung aktuell: für diese Seiten, wo mir Zeitangaben wichtig sind, habe ich #Firefox (mit diversen Privacy-add-ons).

Das Wichtigste ist ohnehin in jedem #Browser #NoScript.

HTH

#PIM#Webbrowser
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Kelson

New app review on my website!

IronFox
★★★★☆

A privacy-hardened Firefox variation for Android, comparable to LibreWolf on desktops. Removes Mozilla tracking and services like Pocket. Locks down features that can leak data, but those changes can break some sites.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/apps/ironfox/
#apps #firefox #mozilla #webBrowser #privacy #floss #review

Bubbles completely fill the frame, the left side dark green and the right side bright yellowish-green. The boundaries between bubbles are the opposite: bright against the dark background, dark against the light one, though if you look carefully, they're the same medium colors against both.
Kelson Reviews Stuff · IronFox - ReviewA privacy-hardened Firefox variation for Android, comparable to LibreWolf on desktops. Removes Mozilla tracking and services like Pocket. Locks down features that can leak data, but those changes can break some sites.
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Ramin Honary

I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.

#tech#software#Emacs
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Linux Is Best

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Vivaldi browser for the win.

Mozilla Firefox, the open source web browser, who once stood for a better web, is no longer that.

Today, Mozilla Corporation, who governs over the Mozilla nonprofit, is an advertising and marketing company. As a result, Firefox, now bundles adware, spyware, that monitors ad placement and ad performance, even when you have an ad blocker. It is designed to help them learn how to better overcome your ad blocker.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), has also been embedded into Firefox. And like the new monitoring, it too calls home even when disabled. On that note, Firefox calls home more than Microsoft Edge. Your privacy is no longer a priority and you have become the product. Mozilla even blacklisted uBlock Origin Lite, the future of uBlock.

Brave Browser, also open source, is also an advertising and marketing company. They too now bundle adware, spyware, AI, plus cryptocurrency. Brave Browser calls out similar that that of a lost child or puppy, wanting their mother. The same way, Mozilla Firefox now does. Furthermore, their founder and CEO is a Nazi (I am not using that term loosely). They are against women's rights, lgbtq+ rights, black lives matter, education, medical vaccines, and it get worse the more you look into them.

Opera Browser, owned and managed by a 3rd party Chinese advertising and marketing company. Opera browser is so infectious, you need to use a special remove program to remove all the leftover junk Opera Browser leaves behind. Otherwise it will continue to generate hidden folders and spy on you.

Microsoft Edge, made by the same people who gave you Internet Explorer. Your privacy and security is not part of their agenda. Bundles with adware, spyware, AI, and embedded into most people's desktop with no easy way to remove. Along with no guarantee that removing the web browser, means it will stay removed.

Vivaldi web browser, based on the open source developed, chromium, and while the graphic user interface (GUI) is closed source, it at least does not include adware, does not include spyware, does not include AI, and only calls out to 1) update, 2) report crashes (if any), and 3) install media codecs (Widevine). Furthermore, not only does it include a default ad blocker, they have worked with uBlock to ensure functionality in the future, plus Privacy Badger (you can use all 3 safely together).

#Vivaldi #WebBrowser #VivaldiBrowser

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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

FOSS NEWS

Mozilla removes Do Not Track setting from Firefox, because most websites don't respect it, in fact, it often makes fingerprint more unique, because most users don't have it enabled; “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting is recommended instead as it's more enforcable by law:
betanews.com/2024/12/11/mozill

PeerTube launches limited mobile apps with local account support, available on Google Play and App Store, with F-Droid release planned:
alternativeto.net/news/2024/12
joinpeertube.org/news/peertube
(Wow my latest video got "featured" on one of the screenshots in the official announcement! I'm famous, guys! I'm famous! lol)
(Jokes aside, it's good that PeerTube finally has its own mobile app, it can potentially get more people using the platform, in this mobile-oriented digital landscape. The local account thing is pretty interesting, I've only seen that feature in third-party YouTube/PeerTube clients like NewPipe and FreeTube. PeerTube is probably the first video sharing platform implementing it in its official app.)

Itch.io indie game marketplace has been taken down following false AI phishing report:
alternativeto.net/news/2024/12
odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/
(Luckily, the situation is solved, the site is back online. But yeah, it was a pretty tough situation.)

PenPot 2.4 released with version history, ability to invite team members to view and comment on files without editing access, new .penpot file format for improved import/export:
alternativeto.net/news/2024/12
(PenPot team kicking Figma's butt again lol)

QEMU 9.2 released with AWS Nitro Enclave emulation, RISC-V and ARM improvements and more:
9to5linux.com/qemu-9-2-brings-

3/3
(see thread)

BetaNews · Mozilla removes Do Not Track setting from Firefox and suggests an alternativeMozilla has removed support for Do Not Track from Firefox, with the company stating that it was a setting that was largely ignored by websites anyway.
#WeeklyNews#FOSS#OpenSource
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Johannes Brakensiek

Ich mag ja @netzpolitik_feed, aber ich glaube, das #Internet holen wir nicht mehr zurück. Schon die Technik ist inzwischen so komplex, dass sie nur noch von Superkapitalfirmen zu handhaben ist. Der moderne #Webbrowser ist quasi ein Symbol für spätmodernen Maximalkapitalismus geworden. "Zurück" (sagen wir besser: "nach vorne") geht es m.E. nur mit Technik, die demokratisierbar, d.h. von einer gesellschaftlich relevanten Menge an Menschen handhabbar ist.

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Pale Moon web browser
Alllright, hello lunarians! We've moved instances again (4 hours has to be a world record for shortest stay in a #Mastodon before migrating :P), and hopefully this will be the final time we will do that. It would be a shame, because "Outer Heaven" does sorta fit more for a #browser named "Pale Moon"! ;)

So, with a permanent #fediverse home, here's the short #introduction again done two instances ago on what #PaleMoon is all about:

We are one of the first projects out there to have forked from #Firefox / #Mozilla. We've started as a humble rebuild aiming to bring an optimized Firefox, but we've soon evolved into a full-fledged fork (hard fork if you will) which kept what we believe were the good stuff that Mozilla axed and didn't deserve axing, like #XUL (which we believe is the most powerful language for extending a browser, up to its internals), #RSS, and <style scoped>, and kept out the ones that we believe were not good for our userbase (like Pocket, the LLM cruft, and if you're old enough, Australis!). We aim to keep evolving this mature platform in order to keep up with the latest feature additions to the web as we reasonably can (even though we believe they're becoming increasingly silly) while, if possible and necessary, adding up some of our own. All of that, as an independent effort supported primarily by nothing else but you: the users!

If you want to explore more about our history, roadmap, and what you can do with this browser, then please give our website below a visit! 🌕

https://www.palemoon.org/

#introductions #UXP #UnifiedXULPlatform #web #openweb #webbrowser #browsers
www.palemoon.orgThe Pale Moon Project homepagePale Moon is an Open Source, Mozilla-derived web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux, focusing on efficiency and ease of use.
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