To be honest, if you have an account on a just breached site and your data didn't got leaked, it's probably a good idea to change it anyway. I still use these kinds of tools, though, but mostly because I used to make accounts on lots of services, forget about them, then get reminded again by a breach, then I usually just download whatever data I had, if any, then remove the account and forget about services for however long. The shock when I found out I got my data leaked because of the Armor Games breach...

users are recommended to immediately check if their passwords were included in the leak.

"We recommend you to add your password to the leak".

These tools have always been a head scratcher for me.

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 Usually these Firefox guides are so big and outdated that they're hard to find the good stuff in them.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.