@const_void It's not about choosing distros in anyway, please read the post before you comment. 🙄
@CrabAndBroom Thank you, but I already covered this 😅 When you check my profile, you will see thats exactly the stuff I'm dealing with day by day, but ty! I may will take a look at OpenSnitch, but I think Portmaster is already covering this need.
@beta_tester Could you tell me more abt Distrobox and SElinux? I think I never heard of both before
@Corb_The_Lesser @linux Oh. Thank you a lot! Never discovered this lol
@keydelk @linux Hm, ig I will stick to Cinnamon, I don't want to run into issues, using another environment which got discontinued by Linux Mint a few years before for some reasons.
Abt the browser and content blocking, is already done ;) Privacy and Security is one of the things I'm very good at, just wanted to know how to enchance the security of Linux Mint.
Btw. I would recommend uBlock Origin instead of ADP is leightweighter, customizable, opensource, non-commercial and pretty well. Since ADP had some controversies in the past.
I'm pretty happy with Linux Mint so far, never tried Fedora, but I will take a look on it
If you use touchpad gestures, the new configuration options are useful.
Where can I find them?
@MuffinJets @linux Oh sorry, forgot to mention it, I'm using Cinnamon since I liked it the most
Hey 👋 dear Linux Community,
I'm still kinda new to Linux (started using this year 😅) I already made it to my main OS, even if I still missing some things which I used on Windows, anyway. What I wanted to ask you guys, what recommendations do you have for Linux Mint (Cinnamon)? In terms of security, optimization, (a way to make the UI looking modern ;-;) and privacy? I would be very interested in what you do guys to optimize your Linux setup :) I'm pretty technical, so there is nothing which could overwhelm me (probaly).
Thx! 🤍
\#privacy #dataprotection #linux #linuxmint #opensource #foss #cybersecurity @linux
@GentriFriedRice There are multiply dectections and like mentioned in another comment there was multiply reports from Edge and Firefox users that they experienced the same issue.
@Bear_with_a_hammer Ah alright, goos to know. Do you have a link to it?
@programmer_belch Not sure since I'm not so good at javascript, but I know abt several reports and articles that Edge users has the same issue as Firefox users.
@SaltyIceteaMaker Same, I think it's bc of uBO or other modifications from or which I made to LibreWolf, but other people made reports on Reddit and other Social Media platforms that they expierenced that and the code obviously shows that YT is doing that stuff.
\#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.
\#privacy #youtube #google #dataprotection #firefox #msedge #browser @privacy
@whale For me it works 🤷♂️
(tested with hardened Brave and Mull (hardened Firefox for Android Fork))
@sj_zero Just wanted to share this information, is not a recommendation which search engine you should use. Not everyone feel comfortable with using a search engine which is closed source and owned by a company, some rather wanna use a opensource search engine hosted by a invidual or a group of people, some other people prefer search engines like DuckDuckGo since they work put of the box without problems and have usually a better usability for the modt people, then SearX (or SearXNG) does.
Did you know..?
DuckDuckGo has two non-javascript versions of their search engine and both of them are very lightweight, especially the lite version.
You can access them via:
Html: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html
Good news! Brave for Android now let's u use your favorite uBlock Origin Blocklists!
Under Settings \> Brave Shields & privacy
Can you now add custom filterlists and edit Brave's default selection of the already avaible filterlists. Some of you now that this was possible before too (via brave://adblock) but at this time it had no UI and wasn't a official feature, now you can easily add, remove and customize fiterlists via the the settings.
@IronKrill Thats the same thing I think abt you guys, but alright.
@eya May I ask why you think that? I their afe good reasons to don't use Firefox either...
Warning to all Brave Browser Users
Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave's functionalities. For me did Brave's "forgetful browsing" feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/encrypted-hello/
Nothing big, but kinda interesting. I'm excited to see how this will go 👀
@free Yep, thats why people invest a lot of time which have much more technical understanding than you have to create products to improve the privacy problem on Windows, Privacy isn't a privilege which only a specific group of human is allowed to have, Privacy is a human right and should be accessable for everyone. If you miss the understanding for that, I would recommend informing yourself better then spreading false information.
Tor Browser is no longer flagged as "Malware" by Windows Defender
https://forum.torproject.org/t/torbrowser-12-5-6-no-longer-flagged-by-windows-defender/9522
\#privacy #cybersecurity #torbrowser #thetorproject @privacy
@smeg You basically missread the article and it basically says, what I already mentioned and the extension is completly opensource I even checked the code myself. 🤦♂️