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Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by trilila on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:27AM (#20468118)
One might think that since browsing privately and securely is such a pain point, there would be more than one product (firefox) to solve the issue. Any HN entrepreneur types out there reading these posts?
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by bitL on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:43AM (#20468196)
Entrepreneurs go after money to survive, where is money in selling a private browser? Moreover, using some niche addon is a very nice signal to fingerprint one in the ocean of privacy-unaware users.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by trilila on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:49AM (#20468231)
I wouldn't mind paying 10-20$ per year for a decent browser. At scale it might be profitable.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by fghtr on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:42AM (#20468470)
You should consider donating this money to Firefox.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by cameronbrown on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:22AM (#20469464)
You say you would, but would you really? Those are two vastly different things.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:39AM (#20468165)
Practically speaking, you would have to use Chromium as a base, if you want the product to be successful. And if you do that, Google has a million ways to screw you up. One of the first obstacles you will find will be Widevine. Hardly anyone moves past that point.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by ehnto on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:07AM (#20468327)
Not sure why you got downvoted. Practically speaking, A fully fledged and compliant modern browser would require a team to build if not built off the back of another browser. So either you're a funded non-profit or you need to make money which doesn't seem compatible with privacy on the internet.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by S4M on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:47AM (#20469176)
Why not use Firefox as a base?
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by fghtr on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:41AM (#20468180)
What about Tor Browser?
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by blaser-waffle on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:48AM (#20469713)
A lot of Tor nodes and endpoints are fairly small in terms of capacity and throughput. Streaming lots of porn vids through them eats up a lot of bandwidth compared to, say, writing emails or browsing darknet markets or reading about Tienanmen Square or something.

Tor has a place, but in most countries regular internet porn isn't seriously illegal. Save the limited Tor bandwidth for people that actually need protection, like gays in the middle east, victims of repressive regimes, etc.

Get a regular VPN, user-agent switcher, etc. for your pronz.

Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by kyboren on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:38PM (#20474628)
Au contraire: More traffic benefits exactly those who need Tor's protection, because it grows the anonymity set. Your streaming innocuous porn over Tor helps to provide cover traffic for e.g. "gays in the middle east" streaming highly illegal porn. Without this cover traffic, Tor would be utterly useless.

So please do stream porn over Tor. Bandwidth capacity on the Tor network is just fine these days, and your use of Tor helps all those who really need the privacy and anonymity Tor can help to provide.

Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by fghtr on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:42PM (#20471571)
Thank you, a very good point.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by trilila on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:50AM (#20468237)
I have mixed feelings about Tor.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by anonymou2 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:40AM (#20468175)
what is a pain about using Tor?
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:43AM (#20468194)
The incessant captchas.
Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by Xelbair on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:33AM (#20468695)
speaking of captchas..

try solving them in chrome, and in firefox on different network and device afterwards.

In firefox i am constantly getting annoying slow ones that fetch new images after marking one.

In chrome i get piss easy fast static ones.