Valid and unfortunate point. Dasein wrote a great post on this somewhere in FDN awhile back.

As a "mitigation," you could use an addon that disables JS by default, then "allow" scripts only for sites where you need it. For daily browsing on known-safe-enough websites, you could also take the opposite approach and disable scripts on sites where it becomes intrusive. uBlock Origin is useful for either case. uMatrix is a better option for aggressive filtering but you'll have to put some work into maintaining the rules over time.

Chrome may try to push out content blockers in future releases. Be careful if you find yourself too reliant on a Chrome-based browser, even Brave. I've also had ads leak through Brave, so make sure you're checking up on their filtering once in awhile. https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/c … ck_origin/

Gecko-based browsers are great but may not be compatible with every web app you use. Firefox is good enough for general-purpose browsing imo. Surf2 is also fun and I need to revisit that one.

Be careful about smaller projects as they often (unfortunately) lack the manpower to maintain a robust behind-the-scenes security team. "Big Tech" tends to tackle security but the tradeoff is usually privacy.  https://www.zdnet.com/article/pale-moon … -versions/

I still lurk

Sup HoaS,

madaidan has some legit insights. Whonix is an interesting distro. Used it for research awhile back.

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It is upsetting that businesses treat privacy as a commodity, not a right in and of itself. The early web had so much promise...

I'm half-sure what you're asking, but I once ran dd to an HDD and basically copied a Kali ISO directly to a laptop's hard drive. Session data is non-persistent, which is a dealbreaker for most use cases.

I get your point but I don't know that I'd go this far. SSL has a purpose for securing the connection for web apps and the like. Preventing inline snooping is a big deal with mobile infrastructures. (Unfortunately, I think that proprietary mobile is the direction in which tech is heading.) Big tech and malware both take advantage of that, but SSL is a good thing when used correctly imo.

Severely underappreciated point. I think we are already seeing this kind of deconstruction, and I imagine it will only get worse over time. Mobile/web app development seems to be aggressively pushing the idea of (their own) services over anything else. (Edit: To clarify, I share your point of view. [Another edit] I did not realize that was a goal with the history of browsers. Thanks for sharing.)

well ctrl+f me sideways.

Also worth noting that the beowulf installer lets you select runit as the system init.

Can't reach this website. ChangTzu, do you have another link?

The murdux kernel more is to my taste, streamlined and minimal.

10 PRINT "THANK YOU FOR USING THE IAN MURDOCH KERNEL"
20 GOTO 10
30 RUN
...

But, really, welcome.

Fixed that for ya.

The best way is to start pulling features from your system. Challenge yourself just to use the command line to solve simple problems.

My two cents