Re:Best and free browser extensions to improve privacy and w...
by ffpip on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:52AM
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Public ownership meaning open source?
Source for localCDN - https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN
LocalCDN's developer is extremely pro-privacy. The extension collects nothing. Privacy policy is one sentence.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork... https://www.localcdn.org/privacy.
Re:Best and free browser extensions to improve privacy and w...
by smcleod on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:03PM
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Interesting, maybe the Reddit user got it wrong or perhaps it's been updated since they wrote the comparison.
Re:Best and free browser extensions to improve privacy and w...
by ffpip on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:04PM
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It's been the same since the extension started being developed.
Reddit comments are mostly the same info being spread again. One redditor must have posted wrong info and other users spread the same thing. Never trust them blindly.
- Decentraleyes has the advantage of being a "recommended" webextension which "undergoes a thorough technical security review to ensure it adheres to Mozilla’s add-on policies."
- Decentraleyes' has public ownership; Thomas Reintjes.
- Decentraleyes' last commit and last activity by the maintainer was 4 months ago; there are 78 open issues, and 9 merge requests with no indication of being merged in anytime soon. So I assume
- LocalCDN was forked because Decentraleyes actually appears stale which is unfortunate.
- LocalCDN doesn't have public ownership.
- LocalCDN isn't a recommended webextension and thus updates won't undergo "thorough technical security reviews."
- LocalCDN does support more assets/CDNs (which increases privacy beyond Decentraleyes) and will support more.
- LocalCDN has not slipped a new permission in. Compare LocalCDN's manifest.json with Decentraleyes'.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/fc05uh/comm...