Your battery status is being used to track you online
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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.
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.
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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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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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> 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 ->
SuperTramps addon works well meaning its quite easy to use
& set's about:config
dom.battery.enable user set false
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
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
In my Abrowser it was set to "true" by default.
Yeah me too. :/ My browser version is 49.0.2.
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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..
Mozilla removed the API from Firefox 52 (more precisely, only extensions can access it): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/firefox-disable-battery-status-api-tracking. Before that version comes out (or if you're using ESR), just set dom.battery.enabled to false.
In Tor it's set to false.
Thank you for all the information, made adjustments to about:config and installed Privacy Settings / Policy Control add-ons, much appreciated!
My battery is broken.
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