XPerceniol Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said: Chrome://flags - Enabled: Block scripts loaded via document.write Strict Extension Isolation Strict-Origin-Isolation That is awesome! I plan to set some security relate flags (including those 3 and others) myself over the next few days, but I'm still learning and trying to find balance between security / privacy and speed. Its too bad, but FF is becoming less-and-less usable in the new age. Thank you and hope all is well Edited January 13, 2022 by XPerceniol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampei.Nihira Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 I gave you a tip in that thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampei.Nihira Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Xubuntu 21.10 (PC my daughter) Strong password enabled Quad9 DNS UFW Firewall - enabled Google Chrome --disable-webgl --cipher-suite-blacklist=0x0035,0x002f,0xc014,0xc013 Javascript blocked for HTTP://* Privacy Sandbox + FLoc disabled Clears cookies and data from sites when you close Search Engine and Home web-page DuckDuckGo Always HTTPS DNT enabled Chrome://flags - Enabled: Block scripts loaded via document.write Strict Extension Isolation Strict-Origin-Isolation HTTPS-First Mode Setting Privacy Review Smooth Scrolling Parallel downloading Reduce User-Agent request header Extensions: UBO - Hard Mode - with TLD by Kees1958 Decentraleyes Trace - (Only enabled) - Google Header Removal + Alternate Error Page + Webform Autofill + SafeBrowsing Extended Reporting Stream Recorder VideoDownloadHelper I eliminated the 4 categories of insecure chipher suites TLS 1.0/1.1/1.2 I removed the flag "Anonymize local IPs exposed by WebRTC" because it is not necessary. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
we3fan Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 On 11/22/2021 at 10:05 PM, XPerceniol said: I'm going to be trying out some more linux builds this week in search of something that I can use on this old junker here as I'm looking to dual-boot or perhaps even keep acronis ... we'll see as I don't really need that partition - my version IS a live DVD. Searching for 32bit live DVD's try before I make my choice. Any ideas are appreicated. I have lots of "Bright Ideads" but I don't know that is such a good thing. Ha! From 100+ Linux distros available I have only tried around 10. My favorite for now is Puppy Linux Tahrpup 6.0.5: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/tahrpup -6.0-CE/tahr-6.0.5_PAE.iso (205 MB) Screens: You can put it on CD or USB and boot from it. It installs into RAM Memory and works very fast. Has a cute background image. Some of the pre-installed programs: Pale Moon 25.8.1 - default browser, opens most sites, can’t open YouTube; If you want another browser you need to install it additionally VLC media player 2.1.6 IRC HexChat 2.10.2 GParted 0.16.1 (partition manager) Burniso2cd (burn ISO to CD) Screeny Capture (screenshot) quickpet - can easily install many other programs like Steam, Chrome, Firefox, guvcview for your camera, download and install is automatic Other recommended Linux distros that I haven't tried yet: Peppermint OS Linux Lite MX Linux Slax Zorin OS Lite Bodhi Linux Sparky Linux Tiny Core Linux Linux Mint Manjaro Linux Tinycore LXLE AntiX Linux Alpine Arch Linux Q4OS EasyOS Salix OS 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) On 1/28/2022 at 8:03 AM, we3fan said: From 100+ Linux distros available I have only tried around 10. My favorite for now is Puppy Linux Tahrpup 6.0.5: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/tahrpup -6.0-CE/tahr-6.0.5_PAE.iso (205 MB) Screens: You can put it on CD or USB and boot from it. It installs into RAM Memory and works very fast. Has a cute background image. Some of the pre-installed programs: Pale Moon 25.8.1 - default browser, opens most sites, can’t open YouTube; If you want another browser you need to install it additionally VLC media player 2.1.6 IRC HexChat 2.10.2 GParted 0.16.1 (partition manager) Burniso2cd (burn ISO to CD) Screeny Capture (screenshot) quickpet - can easily install many other programs like Steam, Chrome, Firefox, guvcview for your camera, download and install is automatic Other recommended Linux distros that I haven't tried yet: Peppermint OS Linux Lite MX Linux Slax Zorin OS Lite Bodhi Linux Sparky Linux Tiny Core Linux Linux Mint Manjaro Linux Tinycore LXLE AntiX Linux Alpine Arch Linux Q4OS EasyOS Salix OS I'm sorry, I somehow missed your reply - thank you very much. For me, Peppermint OS and Zorin OS Are quite good. Manjaro was terrible IMO. For now, I only go with live sessions and remain with XP for the time being and use ArcticFoxie 360 Chrome and Roytam's Serpent and will hang in there as long as possible. Will likely keep XP even if online browsing becomes minimal and we'll see at that point what is the best option. Still not sure, actually. Just FYI.. Linux Lite has ditched FF and went with google chrome as their default browser https://betanews.com/2022/04/25/linux-lite-6-0-rc1-google-chrome If you need - V5.8 64 Bit https://osdn.net/projects/linuxlite/storage/5.8/ still uses FF. Edited April 30, 2022 by XPerceniol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 On 1/13/2022 at 12:56 PM, Sampei.Nihira said: I gave you a tip in that thread. Hope all is well with you and yours, just want to add that :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampei.Nihira Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 I had missed this answer of yours.....is the age I had to update the configuration in my daughter's pc. The pc will move permanently (sigh!!) to my daughter's house, next saturday. This configuration allows for excellent usability and provides good protection: Xubuntu 22.04 LTS Strong password enabled Software Updates - LTS version notification Quad9 DNS UFW Firewall - enabled Google Chrome --disable-webgl --cipher-suite-blacklist=0x0035,0x002f,0xc014,0xc013 Javascript blocked for HTTP://* Privacy Sandbox - disabled Third party cookies enabled Clears cookies and data from sites when you close Secure DNS - DOH Quad9 Search Engine and Home web-page DuckDuckGo Always HTTPS Chrome://flags - Enabled: Block scripts loaded via document.write Strict-Origin-Isolation Parallel downloading Reduce User-Agent request header Enable CSS Container Queries Disable subframe process reuse Extensions: Speed Dial [FVD] Stream Recorder VideoDownloadHelper Don't add custom search engines Decentraleyes Ublock Origin in Hard Mode - with TLD by Kees1958: * * 3p block * * 3p-frame block * * 3p-script block * com * noop * edu * noop * eu * noop * gov * noop * inf * noop * io * noop * it * noop * net * noop * org * noop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampei.Nihira Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 On 4/28/2022 at 9:35 PM, XPerceniol said: I'm sorry, I somehow missed your reply - thank you very much. For me, Peppermint OS and Zorin OS Are quite good. Manjaro was terrible IMO. For now, I only go with live sessions and remain with XP for the time being and use ArcticFoxie 360 Chrome and Roytam's Serpent and will hang in there as long as possible. Will likely keep XP even if online browsing becomes minimal and we'll see at that point what is the best option. Still not sure, actually. Just FYI.. Linux Lite has ditched FF and went with google chrome as their default browser https://betanews.com/2022/04/25/linux-lite-6-0-rc1-google-chrome If you need - V5.8 64 Bit https://osdn.net/projects/linuxlite/storage/5.8/ still uses FF. Snap would not be a good reason. Besides, you can install FF as a Deb package. Probably a good reason would be what is written in the article below: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 (edited) Don't feel bad .. I also missed your reply. Thank you for the helpful advice, as always. From the main site you linked: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/browser-tracking.html Quote Additionally, just disabling JavaScript, while preventing large vectors for fingerprinting, does not prevent fingerprinting entirely. Fingerprinting can be done with only CSS and HTML. One example is using @media rules to figure out your browser resolution. You also cannot substantially improve security by configuring the browser. Changing a few settings will not fix deep architectural security issues. You can at most reduce some attack surface by disabling things, but most people don't do this to an extent where it actually matters. Just UGH Edited May 18, 2022 by XPerceniol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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