I've just been looking at this site>
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/
I'm a little perplexed by what's been written there.
Waterfox is the only browser I have installed, so I can't vouch for what is said in the article about the others in the list.
I ran mitmproxy against Waterfox and I don't see what the author sees. What I DO see is calls from uBlock Origin updating the filters list and update checks to other addons, but that's expected and normal behaviour. Maybe it's because I don't use sync and have made many configuration changes to the standard package that also carry-over in updates? I dunno... I just don't get the same results, thankfully.
Spying Browsers?
Re: Spying Browsers?
If you like security info, this site provides some good links. Be careful where you get your info from, not all sites are reliable. Many are severely biased.
Edit: here's the link... https://www.techworld.com/picture-galle ... s-3625613/
Edit: here's the link... https://www.techworld.com/picture-galle ... s-3625613/
Pax vobiscum,
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Re: Spying Browsers?
I'd like to try to verify the claims in this story - but I haven't been able to get "mitmproxy" to work. Neither tarball nor zip seem to have any instructions; the web page they point to has none.
Can anybody help me out?
Can anybody help me out?
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Re: Spying Browsers?
wulf, I found "nothing" written there, just a list of links. What writing... where, specifically, are you saying is "perplexing"?
The cards are really stacked against us in regard to testing, corroborating, any malbehaviors.
Various sites dynamically, conditionally, serve differing content to requestors... and browser vendors silently (switch on, silently opt-in for A/B testing) features for only a subset of users ~~ leaving us would-be troubleshooters/reporters arguing amongst ourselves as to "who really saw WHAT"?
Brillo, it's necessarily a "deep dive"; I wouldn't encourage you to go down the mitmproxy rabbithole.
If you do, in advance you'll need to consider attention-to-detail "stuffs" like: developer.mozilla.org/...Subresource_Integrity
"security.sri.enable=FALSE"
The cards are really stacked against us in regard to testing, corroborating, any malbehaviors.
Various sites dynamically, conditionally, serve differing content to requestors... and browser vendors silently (switch on, silently opt-in for A/B testing) features for only a subset of users ~~ leaving us would-be troubleshooters/reporters arguing amongst ourselves as to "who really saw WHAT"?
Brillo, it's necessarily a "deep dive"; I wouldn't encourage you to go down the mitmproxy rabbithole.
If you do, in advance you'll need to consider attention-to-detail "stuffs" like: developer.mozilla.org/...Subresource_Integrity
"security.sri.enable=FALSE"
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I was lead to this a few days ago I so shocked to read about waterfox.
The whole of the internet has became a joke lies from every company out their.
Now I what is meant by the term internet USERS..
The whole of the internet has became a joke lies from every company out their.
Now I what is meant by the term internet USERS..
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Is your post a riddle? A joke?
I haven't noticed any recent scuttlebut { buzz | rumor | dish | gossip | hearsay} regarding waterfoxproject.
smooth sailing, calm waters... https://old.reddit.com/r/waterfox/
Re: Spying Browsers?
It was from the authors first source link on the Waterfox article after clicking the Waterfox link and reading his/her? findings, and then reading this from their first link>skidoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:27 pm wulf, I found "nothing" written there, just a list of links. What writing... where, specifically, are you saying is "perplexing"?
The cards are really stacked against us in regard to testing, corroborating, any malbehaviors.
Various sites dynamically, conditionally, serve differing content to requestors... and browser vendors silently (switch on, silently opt-in for A/B testing) features for only a subset of users ~~ leaving us would-be troubleshooters/reporters arguing amongst ourselves as to "who really saw WHAT"?
Brillo, it's necessarily a "deep dive"; I wouldn't encourage you to go down the mitmproxy rabbithole.
If you do, in advance you'll need to consider attention-to-detail "stuffs" like: developer.mozilla.org/...Subresource_Integrity
"security.sri.enable=FALSE"
https://web.archive.org/web/20180607023 ... wsers.html
I was perplexed because it's not describing the browser I'm using. As I said, that might be because of numerous configurations I've made, removing "phone home"/telemetry stuff as a matter of course, which is inherent in Waterfox as a consequence of being a Firefox variant. I've not used stock Waterfox for a long time because my configurations stay in place through every update. I take your point re;- silent opt-in for testing. I had that happen to me once with Firefox. I don't know, and it's just a guess on my part, but I wonder if there are significant differences in browser standard configuration and behaviour, dependent upon which country you are in?
Capt' Brillo...mitmproxy is available in stable repo in MXPI or/and Synaptic. No need to download from anywhere else. Agree with skidoo that if you haven't used it before, you should maybe do a bit of reading-up on it before running it.
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I read the blurbs on Vivaldi and Slimjet that he links to, and it was not good at all.
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi.html
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/slimjet.html
Of course what they say could be all garbage, but how does a body figure out how much to believe?
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi.html
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/slimjet.html
Of course what they say could be all garbage, but how does a body figure out how much to believe?
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Looks like Iridium (which we have in our test repo) could be be your best bet for a Chrome based browser. We also have some others in main or testing, such as Qutebrowser. https://repology.org/metapackage/qutebrowser/versions
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wulf, stevo - not finding mitmproxy or iridium in any repos or in synaptic on this machine
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