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privacytests.org
Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.
There are better browsers than Firefox if you care about privacy. Both Brave and Tor have better results in this comparison that was shared here recently: https://privacytests.org/, same in this tool from the EFF https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ also shows better results for Brave than Firefox (even with blockers installed on my Firefox).
Multi-account containers are really the only killer feature in Firefox for me, they're super convenient for work, but that's about the only thing it has left going for it.
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It seems that self-hosted Firefox Sync is NOT currently supported:
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/55...
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68...
It seems they are migrating the solution without having any instructions on how to self host it.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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> Our only hope is Mozilla takes their head out of their arse and start working on their browser
Are you reporting these to the webcompat project? Mozilla is absolutely funding QA testers and engineers to check what's broken and triage issues that affect specific browsers and not others.
They've handled 103k issues: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...
A great number of the issues that Mozilla contractors and employees investigate that are reported via the webcompat project actually turn out to be the site owner's fault. They're not using standardised web technologies, not testing their work in multiple browsers. Mozilla employees and contractors will try to perform outreach to these site owners, but they're often not interested.
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I have this nice toolbar I made which customizes firefox. I would also suggest reviewing security on firefox.
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outline-apps
Outline Client and Manager, developed by Jigsaw. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.
It's not just that they're suspect or unreliable. They're complete bullshit.
The actual use of VPN technology is to create virtual private networks (hence the name). It's a low level technology (works at the system level). There are several types of network topologies you can set up, when I was learning about this I found this article which is quite nice: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2020/10/wireguard-topolog.... You can proxy traffic through a VPN, but the only scenario I can think of in which it makes sense is if you are an OSINT researcher and you need a safe dedicated system on which to conduct your research.
If you need to proxy traffic and "hide" your IP, just use a flipping proxy. It's a high level technology (works at the application level - e.g. for torrenting, every torrent client under the sun supports a SOCKS5 proxy). If you don't have the time to set up a VPS yourself, you can even use something like Outline (https://getoutline.org) which automates that (and it has a mobile client app as well).
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