Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
I thought you were going to say something about destroying all nonfree software and taking over the world to make it libre... ;p
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
My battery is broken.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
Thank you for all the information, made adjustments to about:config and installed Privacy Settings / Policy Control add-ons, much appreciated!
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In Tor it's set to false.
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Yeah me too. :/ My browser version is 49.0.2.
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Mozilla actually completely removed the API from Firefox: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/firefox-disable-battery-status-api-tracking
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
In my Abrowser it was set to "true" by default.
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Icecat is by far the browser with the best "privacy settings" by default. If I remember correctly it even disables by default the weak ciphers like say rc4 You can easily test it by writing about:config in the address field and then "rc4" All the entries should have the values set to "false". No other browser does this by default..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
> Frankly, Web browsers are too powerful. It's gotten to the point where they can basically function (and, in some cases, do function) like entire operating systems. Total madness. Could not agree more. It requires js to work if I understand it correctly. In any case 95 % give or take and afaik of tracking techniques (not to mention remote exploits of the browser) **require** js to function. Here, some info -> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Fundamentals/gather_and_modify_data/retrieving_battery_status_information
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coyote totally correct ;-) ... and is also in Abrowser Seeing i install that addon & do xtra configs in about : config i had not noticed that it was by default disabled. My first action usually is to emmediatly disable the WebRTC leaking DNS https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/tweak-your-browser-enhance-security-and-privacy
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
Is this not already disabled in Icecat? I "duckduckgoed" it (duckduckwent?) and found this: "Changes since v31.8.0-gnu2" "- Disabled battery handling in dom" Link: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8376
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
I was talking about the battery status option, not Firefox OS... I wanted to know if JavaScript is needed to access this information.
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You couldn't disable JS on Firefox OS. Otherwise it wouldn't work at all! So probably no. Otherwise they are just a glorified PDF reader.
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SuperTramps addon works well meaning its quite easy to use & set's about:config dom.battery.enable user set false
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Frankly, Web browsers are too powerful. It's gotten to the point where they can basically function (and, in some cases, do function) like entire operating systems. Total madness. Question: does this have any relevance if JavaScript is disabled?
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Stunning, but privacy settings addon may be useful yes?
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At least Firefox seems to round to the nearest tenth. Still, I would disable this API.
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Bad Firefox :-( Use Lynx! :-) But on a more serious note, this was warned of many months ago by security researchers. Unfortunately people don't understand just how prevalent online tracking is and how sophisticated it has become. I think even the people who make up the standard probably aren't aware of how seemingly-harmless functions can be used maliciously. I think at this point we should just assume that any function that is able to provide a pseudo-unique method of identification will be used in this way. I don't think this is unique to Firefox at any rate.
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> Um, Since there are so many things to disable, the question I'm asking myself not-so-sarcastically is: what's to leave enabled? A lot. The list is huge. In the attachment my prefs.js to give you the idea. I purged the irrelevant lines. There is an addon to disable the main crap though -> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-settings/
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Um, Since there are so many things to disable, the question I'm asking myself not-so-sarcastically is: what's to leave enabled? Like, the minimum functional stuff? Of course, there's still the problem of having too much of a specific footprint and thus standing out.
[Trisquel-users] Your battery status is being used to track you online
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/02/battery-status-indicators-tracking-online To disable the HTML5 battery status API in Firefox/Abrowser/IceCat, change dom.battery.enabled to false.
