One thing that even privacy advocates seem to get wrong often, is that passive fingerprint of browsers is a thing. And avoiding that takes more than just changing a user agent.
So yesterday's fun experiment with the Lynx browser really drove home that unless you have access to logs of things in transit you have absolutely no idea what is happening to some of your users-none, zilch, zero. Your origin server isn't gonna see anything & your JS script isn't in page so a user may just quietly go boom in the darkness of cyberspace.
Cloudflare sites did pretty well, other things not so much. Ex: things hosted on Wp Engine = #fail
Changing #Chrome's user agent string to make it identify itself as #Firefox so that analytics tools report more Firefox usage without me actually having to use Firefox.
In preparation for tomorrow's public #TestFlight of Browser Actions for #macOS, I've added the list of currently available new Shortcuts actions to its website.
✅ add support for filtering to "Get Browser Windows” & "Get Browser Tabs” actions
✅ add support for naming #Safari windows
✅ add action for bringing a page element into view
I want to give a quick shoutout to this free Chrome extension for web developers that I have used over and over again for years to debug HTML and CSS layouts and make sure elements are properly aligned!
The @sovtechfund invests in Open Web Docs and will support two @MDN browser-compat-data (BCD) projects that address how BCD is updated, maintained, and accessed.
>One of the oldest malware tricks in the book — hacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months. New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain.
Seems implausible to me that any tech-savvy peep is gonna fall for this, but i suppose there's bajillions of non-geeks for whom the scam might work?
Thorium Browser claims to be the fastest browser on Earth
They claim an 8-38% improvement over vanilla Chrome. It is not a completely de-Googled browser, but their focus has been on improving performance as well as a number of patches to restrict what is passed back to Google and generally improve security and priva ...continues
#BraveBrowser is installing VPNs without users' consent, even if you didn't willingly enable their #VPN service. Just stop using #Brave, it's garbage.
Edit: the services are disabled by default, but they were still installed with very little to no transparency about them towards the user, alongside all the other stuff that's often unwanted from Brave users (Pocket on Firefox is to blame too, lol.)