#browser
Cybercriminals crave cookies, not passwords
source: https://cybernews.com/security/cybercriminals-crave-cookies-not-passwords/
Authentication #cookies establish an expiration time for your sessions with services. The token expires after some time, which may take minutes to months, and the user needs to re-authenticate. Malicious actors, having access to cookies and device information, no longer need to know passwords and security passphrases or have access to account recovery options.
#password #cooky #security #web #internet #browser #cybercrime #news #malware
MinusBrowser 2.25.1 is Published
Minus is like Gopher, but even simpler. MinusBrowser also browses Gophersapce.
- This version fixes a mistake in the documentation (in the Home page).
To update to this new version, if you already have MinusBrowser 2.1 or later, just follow the instructions on your browser’s home page. You will not need to use a web browser to update.
To get MinusBrowser if you do not already have it, download this file from Codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Protocol/raw/branch/main/MinusBrowser.tar.gz
There is no need to install MinusBrowser. Just download the .tar.gz file to your home folder and unpack it with
tar -xzf MinusBrowser.tar.gz
or use your favorite GUI software to unpack it. If you have a version of MinusBrowser earlier than 2.1, unpack the .tar.gz file into the same directory as your present MinusBrowser folder.
To follow the progress of the Minus Protocol Project, click on #minus-protocol or look at https://nerdpol.ch/tags/minus-protocol
You can download MinusBrowser from a terminal window with this command. This will work only if Tor Browser is running because it borrows Tor Browser’s SOCKS5 proxy. (Both Tor Browser and MinusBrowser contain their own copy of Tor.)
curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 -O gopher://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion:1990/9/MinusBrowser.tar.gz
This works because all Minus URLs can be translated into Gopher URLs.
minus://something.onion/ → gopher://something.onion:1990/9/
For more information:
[minus://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion/](minus://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion/)
https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Protocol
#internet #protocol #tcp #hypertext #http #gopher #minus #minus-protocol #browser #minusbrowser #minus-browser #server #minus-server
#doh #dns #https #firefox #privacy #url #browser #internet #android #iphone #smartphone #windows #linux
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver
"All preferences for the DNS-over-HTTPS functionality in Firefox are located under the network.trr prefix (TRR == Trusted Recursive Resolver). The support for these were added in Firefox 62.
network.trr.mode
The resolver mode. You should not change the mode manually, instead use the UI in the Network Settings section of about:preferences"
#aboutconfig #setting
Google’s Corporate Paternalism in The Browser
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
It’s a big year for the oozing creep of corporate paternalism and ad-tracking technology online. Google and its subsidiary companies have tightened their grips on the throat of internet innovation, all while employing the now familiar tactic of marketing these things as beneficial for users. Here we’ll review the most significant changes this year, all emphasizing the point that browser privacy tools (like Privacy Badger) are more important than ever.
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Chrome, the most popular web browser by all measurements, recently announced the official death date for Manifest V2, hastening the reign of its janky successor, Manifest V3. (...) [W]hat security benefits it has are bought by limiting what all extensions can do. (...) Put bluntly: Chrome, a browser built by an advertising company, has positioned itself as the gatekeeper for in-browser privacy tools, the sole arbiter of how they should be designed. (...) Google’s trackers are present on at least 85% of the top 50,000 websites. (...)
For what it's worth, Apple's Safari browser imposes similar restrictions to allegedly protect Safari users from malicious extensions. (...)
This is just another step in transforming the browser from a user agent to an advertising agent. (...)
Most recently, people with ad-blockers began to see a petulant message from Youtube when trying to watch a video. The blocking message gave users a countdown until they would no longer be able to use the site unless they disabled their ad-blockers. Privacy and security benefits be damned. YouTube, a Google owned company. (...)
Obviously this all sucks. User security shouldn’t be bought by forfeiting privacy. (...)
> Read other articles by EFF about the fight for digital rights in 2023
Tags: #internet #google #alphabet #chrome #youtube #trackers #privacy #browser #safari #apple #profile #profiling #Manifest_V3
I have been using Vivaldi over the last few (3 or so) days, instead of Firefox. On my own computer.
I'm a bit shocked to say Vivaldi starts much faster than Firefox (less than half the time), and loading times of websites feel shorter too. Also, and this could be because Firefox is very very strict, far fewer issues with websites.
Vivaldi also has profile management built into the browser.
Vivaldi (the browser, not the composer) lacks proper emojis by default, at least on my Ubuntu linux.
I fixed by downloading and installing this font:
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Color+Emoji
After that, restart Vivaldi.
Done
Meet ‘Link #History,’ #Facebook’s New Way to #Track the #Websites You Visit
source: https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
When you click on a link in the Facebook or #Instagram apps, the website loads in a special #browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, #privacy researcher Felix Krause found that #Meta injects special “keylogging” #JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to #monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including #TikTok do the same thing.
#surveillance #web #www #internet #economy #bigbrother #problem #news
@pascal macaigne - original post
THE GOPHER REVIVAL IS UPON US
A maxim for anyone writing a web page in the mid 1990s was that it was good practice to bring the whole thing (including graphics) in at around 30 kB in size. It was a time when the protocol still had some pretence of efficient information delivery, when information was self-published, before huge corporations brought everything under their umbrellas.
Recently, this idea of the small web has been experiencing something of a quiet comeback.
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Read on : https://hackaday.com/2023/12/29/the-gopher-revival-is-upon-us/
Detect Missing Adblocker
Description
Provide a more #secure experience to your website’s visitors by notifying them if they’re not using an #ad-blocking #browser extension.
Inside the 'arms race' between #YouTube and ad blockers
Source: https://www.engadget.com/inside-the-arms-race-between-youtube-and-ad-blockers-140031824.html
Keeping pace with YouTube will likely become even more challenging next year, when Google’s #Chrome browser adopts the Manifest V3 standard, which significantly limits what #extensions are allowed to do. #Modras said that under Manifest V3, whenever an ad blocker wants to update its blocklist — again, something they may need to do multiple times a day — it will have to release a full #update and undergo a review “which can take anywhere between [a] few hours to even a few weeks.”
“Through #Manifest #V3, #Google will close the door for innovation in the ad #blocking landscape and introduce another layer of #gatekeeping that will slow down how #ad #blockers can react to new #ads and #online #tracking methods,” he said.
Anyone who knows #Firefox and still uses Chrome out of conviction is beyond help.
#software #news #browser #internet #block #adblocker #advertisement #economy #business #money #marketing #problem #surveillance #web #www #evil #extension #addOn
#SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on #YouTube
Source: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
#Firefox #sponsor #web #browser #plugin #addOn #video #advertisement #tool #internet #Google
