I had not heard of that LocalCDN fork of DecentralEyes, and I'm going to try it out. Also prefs list is short and useful. Nice. Usually these Firefox guides are so big and outdated that they're hard to find the good stuff in them.

Guess they asked someone else.

It's interesting because, from what I gather, in Germany they have the same rule regarding telecommunication providers as in Switzerland, but different interpretations of it or - more precisely - of what constitutes a telecommunication provider. Maybe it's true that Switzerland is still a decent model when it comes to privacy.

why not just use LibreWolf?

It's not something usable on random criminals. In a sense it is do-not-care. If what was possible would be used for everything, everyone would be more or less aware, making it much less useful. Like the heart attack gun the CIA has since the 1960s. It's used sparingly enough for most people to not even know that it exists. (It's basically an untraceable killing method with a disintegrating projectile that induces a heart attack int he victim.)

What you describe isn't something the people with access to the good stuff would be even aware of, I believe. Too insignificant to reveal their hand.

Spies benefit from false fears of omniscience.

This is utterly useless if crypto, Tor, VPNs are legal. They have to go all the way China or lose on a disqualification. Which do you think?

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox_classic.html

I use Waterfox how fucked am I?

Bromite is only for Android, but I guess Android web browsers are missed when mentioning FLoC. Also, from what I see, CalyxOS build of Chromium either has FLoC disabled by default (and it is on version 89, by the way) or I haven't been FLoC'd. Actually, since I disabled third-party cookies, I can't be FLoC'd. And also, it doesn't look like the Calyx Institute mentioned FLoC and whenever they disabled it in their build of Chromium.

Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and enhanced privacy for Android.
This browser is disabled FLoC by default since version 90.0.4430.101.

The difference is that ungoogled-chromium disables connections and integrations to Google. Since I have a feeling the chromium-browser Mint package might still contain those, you might need to download the package manually. I think AppImage, Debian, or the portable builds should work.

Is there a difference between ungoogled-chromium and chromium-browser? I've got the latter in my repository (Linux Mint), but not the former.

It looks like it will be embedded in a way that can be disabled. In fact, Brave and Vivaldi have already stated FLoC will be disabled. ungoogled-chromium didn't state anything about it AFAIK, but since it disabled everything Google, it will probably disable FLoC too.

Is this only part of Chrome or will this become an integral part of the engine that basically all other browsers use, too?

At one point they started serving unsolvable captchas like google, fortunately they soon quit that fuckery and now it seems to work consistently.

It's still annoying as hell because tons of retarded webmasters block read access from Tor with Cloudflare cancer and thus also hCaptcha.

Though IMO captchas are not a fundamentally bad idea for blocking robots from having write access to a service, not malicious humans. They're just overused by idiots who have no fucking clue about what they're doing, which is mainly why half of the modern web is completely unusable on Tor. (There's also the minority which knows exactly what they're doing, aka Google.)

Yeah, that's on me. Usually I'll read, or at the very least skim my submissions.

Should've dig deeper before sharing then, especially when it's from reddit, where they do shit like censoring the Dig Deeper website, which is a fucking joke for a subreddit that says they help with "Privacy & Freedom in the Information Age". Never mind the subreddit, the entire forum is against privacy. At least they aren't Clownflared and they allow VPNs.

I'll admit, I didn't read the article. Just copied from /r/privacy on reddit.

It'll eventually be like China, each country has their own Great Firewall.

It's an improvement over using Google reCaptcha, at least for now it's not Google (although Google would probably just buy it). Ideally of course our website should be standalone, not loading resources from external sources.

Let's not forget to mention Firefox and DuckDuckGo. Oh, and did I mention that Medium is Clownflared and Internet Archive is shit at trying to view an article on it, forcing you to use Google Cache? It sounds like irony to me.

Brave

ProtonMail

Signal

social media apps

What a joke.

hCaptcha turns this model around. When you use hCaptcha, companies bid on the work your users do as they prove their humanity. You get the rewards.

What rewards? Why the fuck do I need to prove humanity to another technological roadblock?

I don't trust hCraptcha - their main page has a "Try it out" thing, which embeds hCraptcha over Clownflare, which means BCMA will block the main page after the first load. So it's clear to me they support Clownflare in some way.

Actually, the Stop Cloudflare repository said it's all about money. You can see it on hCraptcha main page:

hCaptcha allows websites to make money serving this demand while blocking bots and other forms of abuse.

The "abuse", of course, will be e.g. users who use Tor and they happen to visit a Clownflared website.

Is that the only issue? Well, it also has the issue reCRAPTCHA has - the user is still forced to solve it, the only thing that changes is who gets your data to abuse it.