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  • ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    • You can also use Ungoogled Chromium. Personally I prefer Chromium-based browsers over Firefox because I feel Blink is faster than Quantum.

  • supercookie

    ⚠️ Browser fingerprinting via favicon!

    • So, they claim to be able to track 2N users with N redirects.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • brave-core

    Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues

    • Brave browser does too, since September

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