[-] tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 hours ago

Software that is not actively maintained for a certain time should become public property. The same goes for books or music that go out of print for so long. "you want to sell me your original product? That's cool. You don't wanna do that anymore? Alright, but no need to bury it in obscurity."

[-] tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

This article criticizing AI gives me strong LLM vibes. Especially this sentence, which addresses the reader directly, as if in response to a prompt: "The split you describe is real, but it’s not new, and it’s not caused by #AI, it’s the endpoint of a long enclosure of commons → platform capture (#dotcons), trust → contracts, sharing → surveillance + monetisation and public space → login walls." by Hamish Campbell on OMN (or is it?)

[-] tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Appreciate the recommendations. I will give IronFox a try.

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submitted 2 days ago by tired_fedora@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Hi there. I'm looking for advice to improve my online privacy while browing on android. I'm currently using vanilla Firefox, strict enhanced Tracking protection (fix major site errors), HTTPS-only mode, default dns, no technical data collection, delete cookies / cache / page data on quit. As extensions, I use only Decentraleyes and uBlock extensions. However, I heard vague warnings from the privacy community about using vanilla Firefox with self-hardened privacy-conscious settings, because my settings and yours might be sligthtly different, introducing entropy that can be used for fingerprinting. The only browser I recognize by name on F-Droid is LibreLynx Lite, which is barely customizable (e.g., no 'decline cookies' or 'delete cookies on restart' setting without subscribing to pro) and was last updated 7 months ago. People on the web recommend 'Mull for android', but that was last updated in 2024 and is not on F-droid anymore. I am not generally opposed but a little candid about using Brave or DuckDuckGo Browser, as these are built on Chromium and I would prefer to stay within the Firefox ecosystem. I am also naively a fan of 'hiding in the crowd': using a common browser / what looks like a common browser to a web page being more private than using a super niche one.

Any well-supported security-hardened Firefox forks on Android to speak of? Any other recommendations?

Thanks for your thoughts.

tired_fedora

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