I haven't read it yet, but this guy is a RiseUp shill and literally spreads FUD
His opinion on Privacy Guides: nonsense to me
This pretty much sums up him. Some of his points about Mozilla are relevant, though.
Really? Then he might not be reliable or are you talking about me
I’m taking about the other guy
oh ok
Yes, Firefox is not private. Not to give them credit though, as this is common knowledge.
To put it more clearly: Firefox is not very private by default.
This guy spreads FUD and baseless claims against Google, Mozilla, etc. and provides ridiculous advice. He literally recommends using Pale Moon and XMPP. Not to mention all the conspiracy theories he promotes. Don’t take any advice from this guy. People like him are dangerous to the privacy community.
I agree his opinions on PrivacyGuides are complete nonsense and conspiratorial.
fingerprinting can be blocked by extensions such as uMatrix
No, it can’t. So-called “anti-fingerprinting” extensions cannot do what they claim and most of the time make you even more fingerprintable because you’re modifying the browser itself. uMatrix has been unmaintained for years thus it shouldn’t be used at all.
Moonchild has provided (archive) (MozArchive) a much better way against fingerprinting than what TB tries to do
Moonchild’s method doesn’t really work because very few people actually do this. Websites will easily catch on to you since few people use the Pale Moon browser. Also, I wouldn’t take any advice from a furry who maintains an absurdly insecure browser.
Then they continue with their extension hating:
Good. We should hate extensions because they are fundamentally insecure and often malicious.
So if you “make an exception”, why not do it for an extension that is actually good, like uMatrix?
Because again, uMatrix isn’t maintained and hasn’t been in 5 years. The fact he still recommends this extension should be more than enough for any sane person to swear off this malicious fake news site.
Their E-mail recommendations (archive) (MozArchive) are even worse. Proton - one of the worst possible choices - is literally listed first. Then other trash like Tutanota and CTemplar that do not even support mail clients (this should be a dealbreaker).
CTemplar shut down a while ago and hasn’t been recommended here since. It’s good that Tutanota and Proton don’t support mail clients, or in Proton’s case, requires a bridge, because email clients like Thunderbird are all fundamentally insecure because they use IMAP and SMTP. No security-focused provider should support those insecure, outdated protocols.
Their mali client (archive) (MozArchive) page recommends insecure Thunderbird and ignores the much more secure and overall better Claws Mail.
Claws Mail is barely maintained and doesn’t support HTML processing. It’s not more secure than Thunderbird.
Search engine recommendations (archive) (MozArchive) list StartPage second, despite it being owned by an ad company, blocking VPNs and TOR and relying on heavily censored Google for its results.
Pointless FUD and outdated information.
Not all the advice on Privacy Guides is terrible - they do recommend VeraCrypt, for example.
And they shouldn’t because third-party disk encryption tools break a chain of trust set by Microsoft and Apple on their operating systems which is necessary to stop real attacks and have any sort of secure encryption.
Another fundamental problem with Privacy Guides is that it simply recommends too much stuff. A newbie will be confused by the six or seven options in each category; a good site would only mention one or two absolute best ones.
This is the only thing he’s said so far that makes any sense, but nobody should take any advice from this guy.
Then, Privacy Guides also fails to mention quality alternatives like XMPP, Pale Moon or RiseUp mail.
Ridiculous. I bet this guy also thinks Netscape is a quality alternative to Google Chrome.
I hope Neocities and his other hosting providers shut down his website and all his mirrors because people like him shouldn’t be allowed to have a place on the internet.
I’m fairly sure you can’t get away from SMTP without completely making something that isn’t compatible with email, but email is problematic in general anyway
True i prefer e2e
Technically not true, if you use uMatrix to load only HTML.
Extensions are safer than most software you run as they run sandboxed in the browser. If “extensions bad” then all software is bad too unless it’s provided by the OS?