user.js
xdg-utils
| user.js | xdg-utils | |
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| 45 | 3 | |
| 2,717 | 39 | |
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| 6.4 | 0.0 | |
| 26 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| JavaScript | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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user.js
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Is there a way to disguise your device info while browsing the web?
I don't know about Chrome based browsers but if you are using Firefox you can try user.js from arkenfox [link] or from pyllyukko [link] (I personally recommend the first one because they have a great wiki), you just put the script to your Firefox profile directory and it will spoof your screen resolution, link referrer, user agent, etc. (Remember to manually edit the file to suit your preferences, otherwise it may delete your history and cookies!). Also you can try User-Agent Switcher and Manager [Chrome] [Firefox] it is open source and lets you change your user agent to whatever you want. You can view your browser information on this website: https://deviceinfo.me, IMO this is a great website for identifying your browser's privacy issues.
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How to harden security on Brave?
I don't know how this one compares to Arkenfox, but from my limited understanding, it seems it's more/less of an out-of-the-box Arkenfox experience.
- Bringing attention to the potential of Firefox’s customisation
- Tor Browser without Tor in 2022
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I2p browser hardening
I recommend pyllyukko's hardened user.js https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/
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Is there any recent user.js you'd recommend for Firefox?
I've been using the user.js script based on https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/tree/relaxed for a few years now, but today I noticed that it hasn't been updated for quite a while.
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A distro based on Ubuntu that also is good for privacy
If you're that worried about privacy you should probably change your Firefox to one of these templates.
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I guess it isn't the worst thing out there
Already tried it. Pretty nice but I prefer hardening Firefox on my own (which just means copying and pasting this user.js accordingly and applying some extensions )
xdg-utils
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Why won't keyboard shortcuts work to open the terminal?
I would prefer DE developers to get together and just come up with a common "launch the preferred terminal" spec. Freedesktop.org has got most of the way with xdg-terminal, but a) DEs will want something that doesn't involve running a shell script, and b) xdg-terminal isn't actually shipped in xdg-utils yet anyway.
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Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor
No, xdg-utils are absolutely terrible. They're a mess of untested, undebuggable, underdocumented and extremely user unfriendly shell scripts that need to die.
I've once had xdg-open be absolutely broken on my machine, scanning all of my $HOME because of a symlink with a space [1]. Any attempt to use xdg-open would pin a CPU core for 100% while it recursively traversed millions of files because of missing quote characters in a shell script. Truly the pinnacle of software engineering.
[1] - https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-utils/commit/9816ebb3e6fd...
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Cannot set Firefox as default browser
Fix xdg-settings support for default-web-browser for Plasma 5.19+
What are some alternatives?
Librefox - Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements
ff_in_podman - Run FireFox browser in podman container with sound and video
privacytools.io - 🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
contain-reddit - Reddit Container is an add-on you can install on Firefox to prevent Reddit from tracking your activity on other websites, so you can continue to use Reddit while protecting your privacy.
supercookie - ⚠️ Browser fingerprinting via favicon!
NanoCore - An adblocker
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
Searx - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.
ghacks-user.js - Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening [Moved to: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js]
user.js - Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening