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Linux users are more likely not to opt-in and actively opt-out of spyware, telemetry, or whatever you want to call it.

The ones that don't are more likely those who leave things on defaults, are involved with the project or a distro, or similar. No, I don't have anything that backs this up. The statistics they're using can never be accurate, by virtue of being free software that ships on privacy concious distros to privacy cincious people. There was a study that backs up this claim, but I'm not google.

OTOH, xfce is doing fine.


Linux are also more likely to contribute bug reports and crash dumps.

Security conscious doesn't mean not getting involved with the community and helping useful projects.


I'd swear to any diety "The Game" on HBO was a screener. No thank you, I'll just trawl the high seas for loot.

I laugh at your spying attempts from my cURL e-mail service that I use instead of a web browser.

Processes are usually spawned with CreateProcess. There's no fork in win32.

Have you disabled swap in the kconfig entirely?

If not, is your vm.swapiness 0? How do you deal with overcommit? Did you replace malloc with a more strict implementation?


> How do you deal with overcommit

    echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

No swap device

The weirdest thing is "fuck you" doesn't mean "fuck you" at all! I learned the hard way when I started to unzip :(

Looks cool. And I wonder why I'd run this over JSshelter. It appears to do the same thing, no?

JSshelter looks cool, I'm not familiar but this makes it seem like it operates more like resistfingerprinting by blocking outright instead of noise injection, at the expense of more broken sites?

https://jshelter.org/fpd/

What all security extensions do you run? After running into issues over the years, with extensions doing multiple things that fight each other, I switched to trying to block via ublock origin as much as possible, then prefer other extensions to just do one thing to extend coverage, like this one. Makes it much easier to troubleshoot/exclude/disable when it breaks something vs. fiddling in settings.


You can still do that, but it may not be rendered correctly in a screenshot.

Or dave, the command to start Dangerous Dave.

I haven't seen this much bullshit in a long time. Can we just run a webserver, write the html and whatnot and call it a day? It's not like a webdev didn't have anything to do already.

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