Hi all, I’ve been trying out secureblue on a second laptop but run into some major issues. firefox based browsers don’t work with hardened malloc I can’t seem to install either librewolf or mullvad on an atomic distro anyway. This means that AFAIK I can’t install mullvad browser at all and…

FYI as an update I worked out how to install librewolf and mullvad (I’d missed some documentation) but you have to turn off hardened malloc to do it and apparently firefox’s sandboxing is significantly worse than chromiums. I tried brave as well but there too you have to turn off hardened malloc to…

Ad blockers basically rely on blocking a tonne of domains, manifest V3 severely limits the number of domains that can be blocked, so while ublock is still good the manifest V3 version is much worse than the manifest V2 version as it can’t block nearly so many ads/trackers. Firefox blockers don’t ha…

[image] Why don’t my AppImages work? - FAQ | secureblue secureblue is a collaborative effort to ship a maximally secure Linux operating system. It leverages bootable container technology to build on top of Fedora Atomic, avoiding the need to become a distro in the traditional sense. secu…

Newer AppImages, which use the type2-runtime , do not rely on fuse2 anymore

however, as it doesn’t have manifest V3 it doesn’t have a great ad blocker I personally feel not difference between uBO and uBOL. What it disabled is MV2 btw. it’s also got a unique fingerprint so it’s not great from a privacy standpoint. Every browser has a unique fingerprint. Only Safari ha…

[image] hydride: Every browser has a unique fingerprint. Only Safari has reasonable strategy. Selecting a Browser - Chromium Hardening Guide I’m questioning this source at least on Mullvad browser, they seem a little too happy to clown on it. Mullvad Mullvad Browser - Selecting a B…

[image] anon67953901: There was a comment in a thread that explained the downstreamness, but I can’t find it. [image] Done everything, they still track me? person_raising_handQuestions Base Browser + Mullvad specific changes → Mullvad Browser Base Brows…

Most browsers try to defeat fingerprinting by making all users look the same, brave’s approach is a little different they randomise a bunch of stuff. So each user actually has a unique fingerprint fingerprint but that changes from session to session and is as divorced from anything about them as bra…

[image] Pioneer: TBH the more I read the more confused I am by their attitude, because if you want a secure system but don’t care about open source or privacy then why not use a mac? Secureblue is for people who want to use Linux as a first priority and want it to be secure as a second priori…

Mac is a decent option for privacy.

[image] Pioneer: Because most fingerprint checkers check for the “make everyone look the same” approach brave gets flagged as having a unique fingerprint, which is true, but (unintentionally) misrepresents brave’s fingerprinting protection. The eff’s tool does account for randomisation and brave…

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MB and TB get pretty much released in tandem

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