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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31884410

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

How can a site see what extensions you have?

One of the things I've seen mentioned before is that installing too many extensions can make you more unique, and thus have a negative influence on your fingerprint. This got me curious, how exactly do sites detect which extensions you have anyway? Can they outright read your list of extensions?

Furthermore, do all extensions make you more unique? I guess the answer would depend on the answer to the first question (surely, if they can just outright see your list, then the answer would be yes), but lets say you install something that seems rather innocuous, like Transparent Standalone Images, for example. Can a site see that this is installed / does it make your fingerprint more unique?

explanation

Web sites do not have any way to enumerate or query your installed extensions, and they cannot directly "see" the content scripts injected by extensions. However, some extensions do modify pages in a way that scripts in the page could recognize as being the work of a particular extension, assuming the owners of the site care to research and check for such things.

One particular issue is that an extension may insert a path into the document to a page or image in the extension itself. Firefox assigns a randomized UUID to the extension at install time, and the path uses this UUID. On the plus side, this may prevent the site from associating the URL with a specific extension. On the minus side, at least in theory, a site could detect this weird URL in the page and use that for fingerprinting. See: How to prevent fingerprinting via Add-on UUID?.

is there anything else that I should notice?

Thank you!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31884410

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Is there a firefox extension that disable the web connection of other extensions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

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What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter?

• Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
  • Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer.
• JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
  • JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing.
  • Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

JShelter seems to spoof info by controls the APIs provided by the browser? and Chameleon spoofs user agent and many other information.

To me both seems to serves the same purpose of spoofing. Is Chameleon spoofing without interfering with js and JShelter spoofing with interfering with js the main difference between them? In addition JShelter seems to be able to block malicious js

How JShelter and Chameleon achieves spoofing differently?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31789847

Browser Timezone & Privacy Concerns

How can I hide my "timezone" from sniffing sites?

From my understanding, websites can access both the timezone of my browser (without using javascript) and the timezone of my local machine (using javascript). my question being

• If a website has access to my local machine's timezone, does it mean it has access to other information on/about my local machine?
• According to Privacy - How can I hide my "timezone" from sniffing sites? - Super User, we must disable JavaScript to block timezone access. However disabling javascript is not really feasible as it breaks most of websites. Is there a workaround that allows us to block JavaScript from running specific commands?
• Maybe my understanding of JavaScript is incorrect, but if a website has the privilege of running any program on my computer through the web browser, it can retrieve all the information it needs. If I don't disable JavaScript while using the browser, I don't see the point in resisting fingerprinting, like spoofing my device info.

appreciate any help!

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31859998

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As a security-conscious user, I've used NoScript since Firefox's early days, but its restrictive nature has become frustrating. I'm often forced to go unprotected just to access websites with multiple scripts running on different domains, which defeats the purpose of using NoScript and balances security and usability that it once provided.

Is there a way to block browser JavaScript from executing commands that retrieve sensitive information from my local machine, while still allowing JavaScript that is only used for rendering web pages?

greatly appreciate any insight

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31859998

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31796865

Should I Disable WebSocket Connection on My Web Browser (in terms of privacy)?

Considering disabling WebSocket connections for security reasons. Any experience or thoughts? Have you disabled WebSockets? Any notable issues or performance changes?

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Hi guys! In my notebook I've been noticing that Edge it's consuming a lot of battery in the background. Without being open, it's consuming almost 25 per cent. Changed the settings, but I'm pretty much in the same amount. Any clues?

Hey people.

i recently heard rumors that Fennec is not updated properly anymore/not secure.

I don't really know what's going on (since the last update on f-droid is from 9.4.25) but am now unsure if its still the right choice.

What I like about fennec:

• -tuned version of firefox
• -not based on chrome
• -supports ad ons
• -possible to play YouTube while phone locked.

Just wanted to hear if someone can confirm the rumors of not being as privacy friendly / safe anymore and if so suggest privacy friendly alternatives, preferable not loosing the things I like.

Haven't seen a list as exhaustive as this anywhere else, so I thought I'd share.

I'd like to explain the world of browsers to some friends.

It was the only feature keeping me from migrating. Bye Google!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/431357

TEXT VERSION HERE:

https://thelibre.news/servo-vs-ladybird/

EDIT: I swear, my scatterbrained self sometimes… Switched the main link to the video version for easy embedded watching in Lemmy-ui

Loving this browser!

I miss Dark Reader, UBO is pre-installed, but the only way I can see to install Dark Reader is through firefox add-ons page. I'm hoping that simply going to that page to install the add-on is relatively safe, I wouldn't feel too worried visiting the mozilla website generally, but given I'm installing extensions the browser I wonder if I'm somehow undoing the good that's done switching to LibreWolf.

With recent concerns about Firefox and the mozilla corporation I am starting to wonder if I should take stock of alternatives. A common recommendation seems to be Fennec, but given what F-droid describes as anti-features, I wonder if I'm essentially replacing the problem like for like.

What do they mean? What services? Optional ones? Can it be used without connecting to any mozilla services at all?

!browsers@lemmy.ml should update the browser list why because there are a lot more browsers than the ones on the list (Chromium, Zen, Floorp, etc)

Hello! I just learned/found out you can tile tabs or split the screen in two browsers. The first browser is Vivaldi, which has tab tiling. You hold down the control button, select which tabs you'd like to tile, then right click and select tile tabs.

The second browser, that can do this (afaik, maybe there's more browsers) is Zen browser! I was not aware Zen could do this, until I did the same method in Zen as in Vivaldi. Just hold down control and select the tabs, and you can then split the tabs. Zen has the ability to split multiple tabs. Vivaldi probably does, but I only needed two. Anyways, give Zen and Vivaldi a try for tab tiling.

Do you use tab tiling? What's your opinion?

Hi to all! Recently I changed my browser from Firefox to Pale Moon on my Laptop. I've been noticing that Firefox eat a lot of my battery, being almost 80 percent of the usage. So, looking for alternative I've reached to Pale Moon Browser again (I was a user in Windows 7).

Something I'm quite don't understand is that I have issues in Facebook and in Reddit.

Facebook

• It's sluggish and delay a lot to load. Even getting the not response sign
• Can't use messenger because can't decrypt messages
• Have the sign of outdated browser (I'm using the last update of PM)

Reddit

• It struggles a lot with the new frontend. Now I'm writing from old reddit because from the new one it's almost impossible to use

YouTube

• it also struggles to load main Web and videos. It's kind of impossible to change quality

Any suggestions?

Hi. Zen Browser just released with version 1.16. It has a new feature called Zen Glance, which is pretty cool. You can preview links in the same window as if you opened that link. Press ctrl-click on a link and a window pops up showing you the link/page. You don't have to leave the page you're on either! I clicked on a video link with Zen Glance, and honestly, you could watch a video in Zen Glance while you're on the search page of youtube. I'm not sure of any other browser doing this. It's very awesome in my opinion. Anyways, that's all I wanted to share.

F-droid is telling me that there is a security vulnerability in Mull. Does anyone know what it is? F-droid doesn't provide details, and I can't find anything relevant on Mull's side either. I am assuming it is some out-of-date library but would like to know the risk?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20706955

I use Firefox on Android 11 and Windows 11. What's the best way to bypass short links and sites that make us await a certain period of time (say, 10 seconds) before proceeding? Is it Violentmonkey + Bypass all shortlinks (debloated)?