Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by wisniewskit on Monday November 22, 2021 @11:31PM
(#29314612)
Just FYI, Firefox is working on Total Cookie Protection and other features like SmartBlock to keep third party storage access blocked while not breaking web pages. It's definitely nice to see the anti-tracking space getting so active over the past couple of years.
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by oynqr on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:29AM
(#29315113)
Firefox also recently started to flashbang me every time I open a tab. You gain some, you lose some.
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by aembleton on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @03:49AM
(#29315860)
What is flashbang?
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by Cymrukicks on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:02AM
(#29317275)
All white page i'm assuming. Fantastic terminolgy.
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by woko on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:07AM
(#29318635)
> The non-lethal flashbang grenade temporarily blinds anybody within its concussive blast, making it perfect for flushing out closed-in areas.
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by aembleton on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:52AM
(#29328759)
If its the all white page on a new tab, you can add this to your userChrome.css
@-moz-document url("about:newtab") {
body {
background-color: #000000 !important;
}
}
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by oynqr on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:18AM
(#29367443)
It isn't. about:blank is solid white for a single frame whenever I open it, then it turns dark gray.
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by mintplant on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:12AM
(#29316507)
Author here! Only the data-collection phase of SugarCoat that feeds the script-rewriting step is dependent on Brave (because it's built on PageGraph [0]). The resulting neutralized scripts can be deployed cross-browser in existing content-blocking tools, e.g., uBlock Origin. No reason why they couldn't be hooked into Firefox!
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by donclark on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @12:46PM
(#29320765)
I saw several container tabs extensions. Is this the one you use? And if not, which one do you use?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-tab...
Re:SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
by newscracker on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:01AM
(#29347853)
No, it's not that one, but I'll check it out. I use Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Mozilla [1], which is what many other container related extensions depend on.
I also use Temporary Containers [2], Facebook Container by Mozilla [3], and Google Container [3]. There are also container extensions for Twitter, YouTube, etc.
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/temporary-container...
[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
[4]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/google-container/
Though Brave has been involved in (controversial?) work that’s tangential or unrelated from the core web, such as a substitute for advertising based income for sites, a crypto wallet, etc., I do admire the relentless focus on creating features that help and protect users. It also seems to have a higher velocity of feature releases, perhaps because it can still rely a lot on the open source Chromium project (which it customizes) as opposed to the Firefox team that has to maintain and improve Gecko/Servo as well as handle end user facing features.