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if i knew how i would. There are no end of smart people out there who have been cracking software for 20+ years, accomplishing all sorts software wise (deep fakes, AI dungeon etc) who could do something like this and it would be worth the effort. All i want is an internet experience with no worrying about cookies, popups, etc. Just pure information, like how the internet was for, and how it was for a long time (from the BBS days to the early 2000's, arguably up to about '69 if you count the closed system networks). All this fucking JS bullshit is a relatively new "development" and only exists because the internet has been watered down by billions of fucking moronic people flooding it who don't have the intelligence to operate a terminal so they have to use gui's and shit.

It's certainly possible but the big problem is that you're chasing a moving target. Big web sites change their code all the time and your scraping scripts stop working. And every site behaves differently so you have to write a custom module for every single site.

surfraw does something like this (originally created by Julian Assange)

 

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After months of exclusively using Brave, I decided to hop back to Firefox. As it would happen, Firefox's anti-fingerprinting measures are far more comprehensive than Brave's (at least, according to CoverYourTracks. With all the FF tweaks listed on PrivacyTools, my browser's fingerprint doesn't leak anything via UserAgent, time zone, and WebGL. Unfortunately, my specific Brave configuration leaks those exact things that I'm looking to cover up. There are some other reasons why I moved back to Firefox as well. Multi-Account Containers is one hell of a robust extension and not having access to it on Brave was a real pain in the ass. Also, CanvasBlocker on Firefox is much more intuitive than using the equivalent Chrome extension.

Anyone else feeling the same way, or am I the only one autistic enough to stick with Mozilla despite how terminally exceptional they've been in recent memory?

 

[Kosher Dill]

With all the FF tweaks listed on PrivacyTools, my browser's fingerprint doesn't leak anything via UserAgent, time zone, and WebGL.

I ended up turning off the fingerprint blocking because it messes with sites that actually use the time zone information. Including this very forum.

 

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I ended up turning off the fingerprint blocking because it messes with sites that actually use the time zone information. Including this very forum.

I think I'm lucky in that regard; anything that specifically requires my time zone generally doesn't work well with Firefox to begin with. Before switching over to Brave, I only ever used it for stuff like Google meetings or virtual job interviews.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I have disdain for Mozilla but Firefox has been the most respectable in terms of performance on ARM SBC's like the Raspberry Pi 400, in general it has run better on Pi's and budget smartphones, I'd imagine most browsers (except Safari) run better than Chrome on low end hardware. With Firefox on Manjaro ARM I get even better youtube video performance WITHOUT H264ify, but I still use it because the Pi isn't all there to handle that load.

 

[Bongocat]

After months of exclusively using Brave, I decided to hop back to Firefox. As it would happen, Firefox's anti-fingerprinting measures are far more comprehensive than Brave's (at least, according to CoverYourTracks. With all the FF tweaks listed on PrivacyTools, my browser's fingerprint doesn't leak anything via UserAgent, time zone, and WebGL. Unfortunately, my specific Brave configuration leaks those exact things that I'm looking to cover up. There are some other reasons why I moved back to Firefox as well. Multi-Account Containers is one hell of a robust extension and not having access to it on Brave was a real pain in the ass. Also, CanvasBlocker on Firefox is much more intuitive than using the equivalent Chrome extension.

Anyone else feeling the same way, or am I the only one autistic enough to stick with Mozilla despite how terminally exceptional they've been in recent memory?

Given Mozilla's recent statements, I would not put it past them to start sniffing out "problematic content" from users and their remaining base would be ok with it. They've really gone full on psychotic and I would not trust an auto-updating program from them on my pc.

Using a privacy hardened fork of firefox might be more ok since that code is likely to be reviewed before being pulled in.

 

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Given Mozilla's recent statements, I would not put it past them to start sniffing out "problematic content" from users and their remaining base would be ok with it. They've really gone full on psychotic and I would not trust an auto-updating program from them on my pc.

I seriously doubt that Mozilla will ever implement such a horrifying measure for one reason alone: Firefox is the basis for the Tor Browser, so any major changes that affect Firefox will affect them downstream. Will I be eating those words a year or two from now? Only time will tell, but for now, I trust Mozilla to keep their retardation to themselves with opt-in features like Pocket, their shitty Mullvad front-end, and so on.

 

[Bongocat]

I seriously doubt that Mozilla will ever implement such a horrifying measure for one reason alone: Firefox is the basis for the Tor Browser, so any major changes that affect Firefox will affect them downstream. Will I be eating those words a year or two from now? Only time will tell, but for now, I trust Mozilla to keep their retardation to themselves with opt-in features like Pocket, their shitty Mullvad front-end, and so on.

I pray you are correct, but also

 

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Looks like Brendan Eich and the rest of the Brave Foundation have their sights set on creating a search engine that can compete with Google; they acquired a shitty German search engine a while ago, and it looks like they're gonna be trying to make it competitive (with plans to become default once they're satisfied with the results). Somehow, I doubt it'll actually succeed. The "privacy" search engine at this point in time has been done to death with shit like DDG, Startpage, Qwant, and even searX. Truthfully, I would've preferred it if the Brave Foundation opted to go for the metasearch approach with an instance of searX that they officially run, but we all know that's too much to ask for in this day and age.

 

[AnOminous]

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Looks like Brendan Eich and the rest of the Brave Foundation have their sights set on creating a search engine that can compete with Google; they acquired a shitty German search engine a while ago, and it looks like they're gonna be trying to make it competitive (with plans to become default once they're satisfied with the results). Somehow, I doubt it'll actually succeed. The "privacy" search engine at this point in time has been done to death with shit like DDG, Startpage, Qwant, and even searX. Truthfully, I would've preferred it if the Brave Foundation opted to go for the metasearch approach with an instance of searX that they officially run, but we all know that's too much to ask for in this day and age.

It will probably fail but of all the people to enter this particular fray, I welcome Brendan Eich. All the others suck shit, especially CuckCuckBlow.

 

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It will probably fail but of all the people to enter this particular fray, I welcome Brendan Eich. All the others suck shit, especially CuckCuckBlow.

Of all the alternative search engines I've tried, Startpage is the only one that actually delivers meaningful results. DDG's results are generally trash, Qwant's results are even worse, and I damn sure don't trust any public searX instances because half of them don't even have a privacy policy. I wish Brendan Eich et al luck in their newest endeavours, but I can't help but feel like maybe they should focus on their browser.