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nitrohorse··on Z-Library on New Domain
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...

nitrohorse··on About Lockdown Mode
Trying LockDown mode; looks like backups are still occurring as expected.
nitrohorse··on YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts
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...

nitrohorse··on Ask HN: Browser-extension creators, how do you write for multiple browsers?
MDN is what I've used in the past:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples

nitrohorse··on ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company
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.

nitrohorse··on Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit
Also available is Libreddit (another open-source front end).

https://libredd.it/r/europe/comments/ls7ft8/protest_note_abo...

https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

nitrohorse··on Firefox 86.0
Interested myself, currently using https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/mozilla.announce/msgs/r... (https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.announce).
nitrohorse··on Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland
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.
nitrohorse··on Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
Potentially, depending on your Pi-hole’s blocklists. For reference you could check against these popular spy pixel lists:

https://github.com/apparition47/MailTrackerBlocker/blob/main...

https://gist.github.com/dhh/360f4dc7ddbce786f8e82b97cdad9d20

https://gist.github.com/leggett/8c2ab9735037cb66c218fdbe898d...

nitrohorse··on Threema – Secure and Private Messenger
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...

nitrohorse··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
> 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

nitrohorse··on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
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

nitrohorse··on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
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/

nitrohorse··on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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

nitrohorse··on Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
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.
nitrohorse··on Cover Your Tracks
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

nitrohorse··on Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
Shameless plug: DoH configuration profiles for several more DNS providers can be found here: https://gitlab.com/nitrohorse/ios14-encrypted-dns-mobileconf...
nitrohorse··on Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?
Yeah, and specific to the site OP linked, here’s the RSS feed:

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

nitrohorse··on The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
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...

nitrohorse··on 1Password for Linux beta
I think Strongbox supports those features: https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox
nitrohorse··on Firefox 81.0
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/...

nitrohorse··on Data Broker Opt-Out List
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/

nitrohorse··on T-Mobile reveals data breach, customer account info accessed
Ting comes to mind: https://help.ting.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360030105653-...
nitrohorse··on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
You could give Outline a try (self-hosted Shadowsocks VPN): https://getoutline.org/
nitrohorse··on All Chrome extensions can execute remote code in their own context
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.
nitrohorse··on All Chrome extensions can execute remote code in their own context
Yeah, looks like the report is hidden now. Unfortunately it wasn't captured in the wayback machine.
nitrohorse··on Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages
Some discussion by gorhill 11 months ago about this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/46#issu...
nitrohorse··on Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
Not for Wire “Personal” (https://wire.com/en/products/personal-secure-messenger).
nitrohorse··on PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
I wonder how this compares to Cryptomator [1].

[1] https://cryptomator.org

nitrohorse··on Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU
> This funding will without a doubt accelerate our ProtonDrive efforts...

Looks like there’s a somewhat working site to learn more: http://protondrive.com

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