AppWarden
user.js
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AppWarden
- Ash HN: My country is undergoing a coup, which encryption software should I use?
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Name some underrated open source apps
Here's one you probably haven't heard about: Warden, by Aurora.
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Foss alterntaive to digital well being ?
Solved : Using Warden atleast i can monitor spend time on this app with Nice UI :)
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How to make the phone more secure ?
Then you can try every one of the indications and judge if they fit or harm your user experience. Avoiding big data botnet is a great start (Google, Facebook, Amazon), you can start to inspect your applications and their trackers with ClassyShark3xodus, Aurora Warden and TrackerControl. Then you might like to learn about your digital fingerprint with CoverYourTracks, TorZillaPrint and other testers, but the most important, always keep updated with privacy-related online content.
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trackers-specific questions
Hiya folks, I have a few questions about blocking trackers. I've been running under lineageos for quite some time with a (mostly disabled) microg. Occasionally I still find it tempting/useful/necessary to install apps with trackers and try/hope to mitigate the tracking functionality. For example, transportr, öffi, and osmand have been flakey lately (may just be my fault/environment) but I've temporarily installed moovit, citymapper, and transit, which have 6-17+ trackers each. Using Warden/App Manager (https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager), you can block/disable most of the trackers. Using blocking hosts files (in adaway for example) you can block some of the tracker functionality. Using trackercontrol (proxy) you can try to see if you neutered all of the trackers. Questions: 1) Do Warden and AppManager duplicate their functionality? (can I just use one of them?) 2) Do I need to go to the trouble of sniffing traffic if I want to make sure all unwanted traffic/tracking/advertising 3) Does an app repo or tool exist that sanitizes popular apps (removes the tracking payloads)? (I'm aware of Izzy) 4) Should I be asking this elsewhere like xda? 5) There are severe limitations introduced when doing things this way. Is there a better combination of tools/methods you would recommend? I realize that, in this use case, even just my search data will be used for tracking/profiling purposes so it isn't a good example. But I'm curious for all apps, not just navigation apps... Cheers, and thanks!
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10 cool apps to download for android (in my opinion)
There you go. It's a great app!
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What's the Most App Trackers You Have Seen?
I'm not sure as I haven't done it. Maybe this link answers your questions: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden
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Got the feature invite yesterday and enabled it. Astonished by seeing the numbers in less than 24hrs. Need to read more on how exactly it works though.
Checked Redmorph with Warden not excited about the trackers embedded in it - particularly Google AdMob.
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Question:- What is use of APK explorer and editor from F-droid?
If you have root then you may want to check out Warden, it's made by the same people as Aurora Store/Droid/Services and allows you to disable trackers and loggers in apps
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I use Firefox and Brave and i use DDG and Startpage, what other i should replace and how.
I also like Warden for insight on Trackers and Loggers.
user.js
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It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web
Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.
[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
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Most secure and privacy oriented alternative to mail.app
For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
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Which Firefox user.js file do you recommend for piracy?
only arkenfox
- What privacy-related preferences keep breaking my Twitter?
- Anonimlik Rehberi
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Lock Down Firefox - Network Hardening - FOSS - git clone
This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.
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Waterfox G6.0.2 had whitelisted search deal partner www.bing.com against user extensions in extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains
If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.
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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime
Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...
[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
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I don't understand what's so good about Firefox
Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.
What are some alternatives?
App Manager - A full-featured package manager and viewer for Android
Better-Fox - An up-to-date user.js to speed up and secure Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox]
tracker-control-android - TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.
privacytools.io - 🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
XPrivacyLua - Really simple to use privacy manager for Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later
Librefox - Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements
drozer - The Leading Security Assessment Framework for Android.
settings
capacitor - Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️
idm-trial-reset - Use IDM forever without cracking
GmsCore - Free implementation of Play Services
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!