12/28/2023 0 Comments 73 gnu icecat– Prevent execution of Javascripts without a proper License (LibreJS) – Isolate requests to First Party domains Icecat tries to mitigate this with the following settings: This also tells us why Google Analytics is GRATIS… Or is it?. Think of Google Analytics: it’s almost everywhere and while the one website owners, can use analytics to get some stats about the website visitors, Google, on the other hand, can see the activity of all the users across many websites (the majority use Google Analytics) and build complete user profiles in an illegal and unethical way: without user consent, without letting the users know and with no chance of opting-out. Some of these resources are included in a webpage with the only purpose of logging and tracking the user activity. The majority of the browsers will happily execute any javascripts for the sake of the web, otherwise some website might not look as expected or might not have certain functionalities. The problem is that many of these are often downloaded from third parties servers, who in turn, can log our visit, see our ip address, fingerprint our browser, and even worse, try execute some dangerous javascript. When we open a web url, our browser will download a web page (html) and all the referenced javascript, images, css etc. – Disabling DRM Differently from the many Firefox Forks out there, Icecat is the only one that doesn’t send out any data, unless the user decides. – Disabling checks for update (you have to check for updates yourself). This antisocial and debatable behavior is consolidated among all major browsers developers and software vendors in general. A fresh installed Firefox, as soon as it is started, connects by default to several services owned by Mozilla (Telemetry) with so called “pings”, in the background and without asking for user permission*, signaling Mozilla and all the parties involved in the connection, that the user just open the browser.
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