MsDropbear42 🦘♀🌈🐧 / is on Nostr

👍: Classic Oz+Eng lit, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, satire; Linux+FOSS; Kindness; Gaia.

👎: Cruelty; RWNJs; Anti-Gaia.

Stuff:
- She/Her.
- Straya born, Thailand reborn.
- Linux+FOSS distracts my sadness.
- Posts autodelete @ 3mths.
- For Follow-Requests, you MUST have Profile & Public posts, else i'll Reject.

26/8/23: After testing #Friendica pretty intensively over recent days & nights, i've decided now to give it a go as my new daily #Fediverse home. There's been many #Mastodon accounts, & a couple of #Firefish ones, since i decided to venture into the Fediverse last November, but none of them quite captured the full Goldilocks essence of what i desire in a Fedi client. Will this one be it? 🤷‍♀️

2/9/23: Unfollowed all my hitherto #trans* hashtags, as just too depressing & pointless 😭

Last Notes

2024-03-02 11:19:15

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@npub1h5a…lzf4 Not in my timeline it ain't. The one to which i replied, & screenshot, is the originating post in my timeline, otherwise i'd have ignored this silly thread.

2024-02-19 04:12:06

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@npub1zzg…s940 @npub1adq…jgpy Don't disagree in principle, but in practice it's very tricky for Devs to presuppose to understand a user's preferred compromise of competing security & privacy settings vs outright usability desires. For geeky users especially i foresee much probability of such disagreements, whilst vanilla users might not appreciate their browser forgetting all their open tabs next launch [a v trivial example just to make the point].

2024-02-19 01:49:47

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@npub1zzg…s940 @npub1y8a…5cy0 @npub168e…9uaw nostr:npub1adqp2zgwnc9ej87eqmn27rtvjltaeugvshhag0gf7xngwlwsj2fqqhjgpyI test all browsers by default; that's because users tend to stick to defaults. ... I don't think it's right to have privacy protections available only to power users who know how to tweak settings and which settings to tweak
Here though, sorry, i still disagree, fwiw. Yes i definitely grasp the sense of "test defaults for ordinary users", but IMO the logic of this objective then rather falls on its face when your table includes several browsers that no "ordinary" user is ever going to select & install of their own volition.
Pls correct me if i am mistaken, but, just to focus on a quick dual comparison atm, isn't the primary difference between standard Firefox & one of its forks Librewolf, that whilst the former ships with no user.js & some comparatively lenient settings in prefs.js, the latter has toggled most settings to "high" in its prefs.js & uses a very hardened user.js? If so, then this would exemplify my discomfort with the site data presentation, as readers would wrongly infer that standard FF is simply inherently "lax", when that's really not accurate.
Similarly, though i regard Vivaldi as inherently less private than FF [when both have been "tickled up" with harder settings], it nevertheless would garner many more green ticks in your table if tested with the harder settings in its internal GUI Settings, + where applicable also its chromium-legacy chrome://flags. However atm, once more, an unaware reader of the table would simply conclude "oh, Vivaldi is poor". Indeed, periodically this is a combative trope raised in the Vivaldi Forum, using your table as an attack weapon. It just seems inequitable to me.

2024-02-19 01:28:38

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@npub1zzg…s940 @npub1y8a…5cy0 @npub168e…9uaw @npub1adq…jgpy Hello, & t/y for responding, including useful info; tis appreciated.I run PrivacyTests independently and I created much of the site before I was employed by Brave. I work for Brave as a browser engineer
Whilst i already knew the info you've now stated in this toot, i now readily concede my error or overreach & entirely apologise to you. My hitherto antipathy was that i had been carrying along in my mind, since discovering your site some years back, a lack of such disclosure on the site, which greatly prejudiced my opinion as i perceived it to be duplicitous. However, now i see that you have an entirely decent Full disclosure and transparency section at the bottom of privacytests.org/about which i seem to have either never noticed before, or did notice but subsequently forgot. In either case, the fault is entirely mine, hence again, i apologise.

2024-02-19 00:00:44

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@npub1adq…jgpy @npub1y8a…5cy0 @npub168e…9uaw @npub1zzg…s940 This really is rubbish. Peeps keep pushing this website, & it's duplicitous to do so!
the website owner is a Brave employee. No matter how loudly they claim otherwise, this site is NOT neutral & independent / objective.
it tests browsers in default config, not what they're actually capable of. Eg, two examples:
Vivaldi has innumerable settings that are disabled by default ootb coz THE central tenet of Vivaldi philosophy is respect for the user's choice. In the test pictured above, & btw also most/all the other test categories too, Vivaldi would have most of the crosses replaced with ticks if the settings were toggled.
Firefox & all its spins & forks have comprehensive #DoH settings in Preferences. In the main FF family [ie, Nightly, Beta, DevEd, Release, ESR], default DoH is set to minimal, but can be bumped up to intermediate or strong simply by toggling. All that Mulvad & Tor do is ship with those toggled. To conceal these facts is all part of this silly site's misinformation.