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JavaScript, that once promised to be so useful, has become the tool of choice for the wonderful surveillance dystopia we live in…
A year ago, I tried for a few months to use the Web without any JavaScript running. If it was fine on a few selected (and, unsurprisingly, privacy respecting websites) it was… close to impossible everywhere else, including state/government/public services websites. That’s the first thing I would want to change if we were to take back some control/privacy: official/public services should not rely on privacy invasive tools.
For general use, it’s almost impossible, but I found it very doable to have a browser without js in the phone, for reading stuff. Turns out most news and informational sites are readable without js.
canvasblocker ublockorigin privacybadger
about:config ->
-> javascript.options.shared_memory = FALSE
-> privacy.firstparty.isolate = TRUE
-> privacy.partition.network_state = TRUE
-> privacy.partition.network_state.oscp_cache= TRUE
-> privacy.partition.network_state.oscp_cache.pbmode = TRUE
-> privacy.partition.serviceWorkers = TRUE
-> privacy.reduceTimerPrecision = TRUE
-> privacy.resistFingerprinting.reduceTimerPrecision.jitter = TRUE
-> privacy.resistFingerprinting.reduceTimerPrecision.microseconds = 1000 … or… more?
… might do something to stymie this?
From the paper:
We assume default configurations for the operating system and browser.
Well I have no idea what the ‘default configuration’ of … Linux … is…
But uh, theoretically this is something you could harden against by going balls to the wall with security preferences and options in firefox, waterfox, librewolf, ironfox, something like that… maybe?
Also, its maybe possible that using a seperate container for each seperate tab could also stymie this.
Yeah I apparently missed all this but yeah, there seems to have been a significant hubub of basically… wait why do we even need this at all?
To satisfy lazy corporate web devs who can’t be bothered to use existing APIs properly?
That’s basically my take after after a light review of reading several threads in various places around this, over the last few years.
Mullvad browser maybe better for this than librewolf?
Potentially?
Maybe?
I would not call myself an expert here, I don’t… dev webbrowsers, more like I’m a privacy minded power user.
I’m literally just spitballing, I can guarantee nothing.
Maybe if I did a full crash course over like a month or two, I could have what I would call a ‘semi-informed’ opinion.
Because mullvad based on torbrowser which known very fingerprint resistant.
Joke’s on them. I have an HDD.
That’s insane
nrly, just Mozilla things.
Great, just what we needed
