Posts by andreas@nitro.horse
(DIR) Post #A0xteuaM4bDJJEvxCq by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-07T17:53:03Z
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“Microsoft (owner of Hotmail, Yahoo!, Outlook, Live.com, Office360, etc.) is rejecting all emails originating from Disroot.org servers.”https://disroot.org/en/blog/microsoft_hostility#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A1A4RtHBCMoZokBiHg by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-13T16:40:55Z
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New IVPN update:“Generating an account for our VPN service no longer requires an email address, and we dropped renewing subscriptions by default in favor of a pre-paid system.”Source code for website: https://github.com/ivpn/ivpn.net/https://www.ivpn.net/blog/new-open-source-ivpn-website-subscribe-without-email/#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A1MogwPXq9HsAfziC0 by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-19T20:19:05Z
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Looks like Ghostery will be launching a desktop browser based on Firefox and search engine powered by Bing early next year.https://www.wired.com/story/ghostery-browser-search-ad-free/#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A1QzNkabK2O0schRLs by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-21T18:56:03Z
5 likes, 31 repeats
There's a new "experimental feature" being tested in Firefox 83: sponsored sites in the URL bar."Mozilla works with advertising partners to place sponsored tiles on the Firefox home page (or New Tab) that would be useful to Firefox users. Mozilla is paid when users click on sponsored tiles."https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacyYou can disable this by setting `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites` to `false`.Found via https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jybx2w/uh_why_is_firefox_showing_me_sponsored_links_in/#privacy
(DIR) Post #A1R0diQ7FqHGjwyK8W by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-21T19:00:15Z
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"When you click on a sponsored tile, Firefox sends anonymized technical data to our partner (https://www.admarketplace.com) through a Mozilla-owned proxy service (https://github.com/mozilla-services/topsites-proxy). This data does not include any personally identifying information and is only shared when you click on a Sponsored Top Site."#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A1S3nrPLBiq0Wy6A1A by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-22T02:24:44Z
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@mnw yeah, confusingly the support page doesn’t mention the URL bar but the Reddit author shows sponsored sites do appear there 🤔
(DIR) Post #A1T6UeTFYbjVvTQ2WO by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-22T21:08:37Z
2 likes, 1 repeats
Just discovered RSS-Bridge; really helpful, open-source project.https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridgeFor instance Mozilla doesn't provide a feed for their security advisories page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/) but rss-bridge does (https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/bridges/MozillaSecurityBridge.php) 👍🏼 @amolith and @snopyta both run public instances too.- NixNet: https://rss.nixnet.services- Snopyta: https://rss-bridge.snopyta.org/#privacy
(DIR) Post #A1fkf8Vn33PS3VgFbE by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-28T21:38:38Z
13 likes, 22 repeats
Very cool -- https://teddit.net is a new privacy-friendly Reddit frontend, similar to Invidious / YouTube, Bibliogram / Instagram, and Nitter / Twitter.Source code: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit- No JavaScript or ads- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit- Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint- Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB)#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A1hrr1ZnkORo155msa by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-11-30T00:10:11Z
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@Givou @nipos nice!
(DIR) Post #A2FRai9fNw309QxR1k by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-12-15T23:12:48Z
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This is helpful; a generator for creating an encrypted DNS configuration profile for you Apple device.https://dns.notjakob.comSource: https://github.com/fyr77/dns-mobileconfig#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A2Qz0VOasdvDKnPFgG by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-12-21T17:08:57Z
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Threema is now open-source.- https://threema.ch/en/open-source#overview- https://github.com/threema-ch#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A35HS3Uk0YAi65nxbM by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-01-10T03:02:40Z
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Learned of another self-hostable, privacy-focused front end similar to Teddit called Libreddit.https://libredd.itSource code: https://github.com/spikecodes/libredditDifferences as of now are:- Libreddit mirrors Reddit’s redesign while Teddit mirrors the old.- Libreddit is written in Rust while Teddit is in Node.js.#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A3HXg3cTioSRiz1NRI by andreas@nitro.horse
2020-12-29T01:08:23Z
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ProtonVPN on Testflight now has a “NetShield” feature. Free version can block malware, paid subscription supports ad and tracker blocking too. Interested to learn what filter lists it uses 🤔https://testflight.apple.com/join/3yl2MSbw#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A3HXhHXTSJc3BTGSBs by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-01-16T02:56:32Z
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Proton's blog posts [1] [2] don't state details on the filter lists being used, only that it's a "massive database of sites known to host malware, spyware, or any other malicious software."But it looks like they mentioned on Reddit [3], "We have both public and proprietary lists that we maintain." 😕[1] https://protonvpn.com/blog/netshield-ad-blocker/[2] https://protonvpn.com/support/netshield/[3] https://teddit.net/r/ProtonVPN/comments/kwb7pf/what_is_the_sources_of_dns_filtering_for/gj7ocwo/#c#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A3HXq9W4eXIEuOq6Mq by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-01-16T03:00:37Z
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Would be insightful for someone to conduct tests against bad sites [1] across security-focused DNS resolvers from Proton, Quad9, CleanBrowsing, Cloudflare, and CIRA Canadian Shield to see which comes out on top. Per site testing against some resolvers can also be conveniently done via https://dnsblacklist.org by CleanBrowsing.[1] https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/blob/master/security/threat-intelligence-feeds.json
(DIR) Post #A3JHYCgCwV7yYav0gS by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-01-16T23:04:39Z
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Interesting.. The search engine selection preconfigured in Ghostery's upcoming browser (based on Firefox) includes a new one called Tailcat, "The open, unbiased search engine." No privacy policy or about page yet that I can find - just that it's based in Munich, Barcelona 🤔 https://meow.tailcat.comhttps://github.com/ghostery/user-agent-desktop#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A3mK7thR5xr87o7n2u by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-01-30T21:11:13Z
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Helpful filterlist for uBlock Origin, "Fuck Fuckadblock," a successor to reek's "Anti-Adblock Killer list."https://bogachenko.github.io/fuckfuckadblock/#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A3n4KU04YHx64kmTi4 by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-01-31T07:53:17Z
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FYI Mozilla / Firefox shares user data with Google, Leanplum, and Adjust [1] by default except on Klar [2] [3]. Learn how to opt-out here [4]. Also doesn't hurt to search for "telemetry" in `about:config` (not available on Firefox iOS) and toggle the entries to `false`.[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/privacy-and-security/no-surprises[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-usage-data-firefox-mobile-browsers#w_why-do-you-enable-data-collection-by-default[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus#Firefox_Klar[4] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-usage-data-firefox-mobile-browsers#w_how-do-i-turn-off-data-collection-and-reporting#Privacy
(DIR) Post #A4lNODgJUxtqola67c by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-02-27T01:58:57Z
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Gab has an alleged data breach? Oh please be true! 🤞🏼https://news.gab.com/2021/02/26/alleged-data-breach-26-february-2021/
(DIR) Post #A4lNOE8JoqIkDcgSm0 by andreas@nitro.horse
2021-03-01T02:16:42Z
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Yup, it’s true 🥳 ✨> The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make Gab’s 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.https://www.wired.com/story/gab-hack-data-breach-ddosecrets/