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Re:Z-Library on New Domain on Saturday December 10, 2022 @09:41PM (#33939527)
I'd be wary of using this site and stick w/ the onion sites linked on the Wiki page until we know this is actually "official" [1] [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ytqzy0/eli5_zlibi...

Re:About Lockdown Mode on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @09:29PM (#32845877)
Trying LockDown mode; looks like backups are still occurring as expected.
Yattee [1] and AdGuard [2] are two solutions I’ve found that can help.

[1] https://github.com/yattee/yattee [2] https://adguard.com/en/blog/how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-block-y...

https://www.doineedavpn.com enumerates legitimate use cases well I think.

> This site was conceived and built by IVPN to challenge aggressive marketing practices in the VPN industry.

Re:Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:59AM (#26167844)
Nice app! I created configuration profiles for convenience at https://encrypted-dns.party but an app with providers pre-configured is way more convenient. Some smaller providers that come to mind for ad-blocking: Adhole, AhaDNS, BlahDNS, LibreDNS, and Usable Privacy DNS.
Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:40AM (#26163743)
Re:Threema – Secure and Private Messenger on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:05AM (#25860313)
Related, looks like Signal recently added a support doc for this issue.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360055276112-In...

More discussion found at https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-should-warn-users...

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:16PM (#25786572)
> I've got to spend more time investigating a way to remove this question for users...

At least on Firefox AMO, their new “verified” add-on badge is worth a look.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-badges

Re:Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:28PM (#25717774)
Also worth noting is that Private.sh is run by Private Internet Access / Kape Technologies [1] in partnership with Gigablast for its search index. [2]

[1] https://www.voxmarkets.co.uk/articles/kape-technologies-to-a...

[2] https://gigablast.com/blog.html#privatesearch

Re:Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:23PM (#25717696)
Also worth noting is that since the acquisition, Startpage has added these support pages:

- Startpage CEO Robert Beens discusses the investment from Privacy One / System1 [1]

- What is Startpage's relationship with Privacy One/System1 and what does this mean for my privacy protections? [2]

- What is the Startpage privacy-guarding data flow? [3]

Some further context [4].

[1] https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

[2] https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

[3] https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

[4] https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/

Worth keeping an eye on Teddit development [1] [2], an alternative, open-source/self-hostable/JS-free interface similar to Invidious/YouTube, Bibliogram/Instagram, and Nitter/Twitter. Login functionality isn’t supported yet but apparently on the roadmap.

[1] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit [2] https://teddit.net

Looks like the old mobile design (https://i.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/jyg1jq/finished_the_b...) redirects to the new Reddit interface for image galleries.
Re:Cover Your Tracks on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:17PM (#25167845)
I'm pretty sure that because Tor Browser ships w/ `privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing` set to `true` by default since 9.0 [1] (Oct. 22 2019 [2]), users can resize the windows now without affecting their fingerprint.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31059 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90

Shameless plug: DoH configuration profiles for several more DNS providers can be found here: https://gitlab.com/nitrohorse/ios14-encrypted-dns-mobileconf...
Re:Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers? on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:51AM (#24969390)
Yeah, and specific to the site OP linked, here’s the RSS feed:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/atom.xml

Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:54AM (#24870105)
I’d recommend this podcast episode on the origins of QAnon from Media Roots Radio.

https://mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-the-origins-of-qano...

Re:1Password for Linux beta on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:17PM (#24851646)
I think Strongbox supports those features: https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox
Re:Firefox 81.0 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:52AM (#24555977)
Looks like Cookie AutoDelete does support IndexedDB [1] and Service Workers [2] by the way.

[1] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/... [2] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/...

Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:17AM (#24389387)
DeleteMe [1] from Abine [2] comes to mind.

> We monitor each data broker website for your personal information every three months, providing you with four DeleteMe Privacy Reports per year. [3]

[1] https://joindeleteme.com/

[2] https://abine.com/

[3] https://joindeleteme.com/help/kb/monitor-my-info/

Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:36PM (#21424823)
You could give Outline a try (self-hosted Shadowsocks VPN): https://getoutline.org/
Here's the proof-of-concept extension by gorhill for anyone interested: https://gist.github.com/gorhill/b0316e35d4e7e4a44df39e8b7fa5.... Looks like his tweets regarding this have also been deleted.
Yeah, looks like the report is hidden now. Unfortunately it wasn't captured in the wayback machine.
Some discussion by gorhill 11 months ago about this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/46#issu...

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