Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

Post by jonathanyc » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 3:23 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #191

roca wrote: post #188

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Brave's good but since it's a wrapper around Chromium, you're still supporting Google control over the Web.

This sort of reasoning is fallacious. Use of Chrome’s renderer is not specifically advantageous to Google until/unless they attempt to leverage it to break web standards, which is not their general policy (Widevine concessions to content creators notwithstanding), just as use of WebKit is not specifically advantageous to Apple, nor is Node’s use of v8, et c. Fact is, Brave is, as I understand it, a system that intend…

Post by sitkack » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 8:48 AM UTC

mrspeaker wrote: post #87

andrepd wrote: post #36

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The www has an API for gamepads. I need a moment.

Off topic, but besides being a really cool API for playing games - and heaps of games support it - I used this in a talk to control my "slides" via an xbox controller: https://mrspeaker.github.io/emacs_talk/ - moving around topics, triggering slides forward/back, starting/stopping videos, and changing slide opacity using the d-pad, analog sticks, and triggers. I'll never use an apple remote again ;)

Post by mholt » Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

charlesdaniels wrote: post #59

I agree with the general sentiment in the comments that this is good -- fingerprinting in particular is something browser vendors should be trying to combat. I am concerned about the approach however; a simple blacklist of fingerprinting scripts may be insufficient, in that non-blocked scripts can still access the data that is used to accomplish fingerprinting. Personally, I would like to see more security around the…