Web Browser Security

[jdaniele]

I found this website from a hacking group on Facebook. https://panopticlick.eff.org and the only browsers that passed on at least one test was TOR. When I tested IE11, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox all failed. Now when I added their extension it blocked most of the issues they claimed but I could block some of the issues with uBlock or Adblock Plus. Not sure how legit this is but found it interesting.

[jdaniele]

Wow DuckDuckGo just made their own browser!! Only seems to be for mobile devices though. They do have a Chrome extension however.

https://duckduckgo.com/app

Tried it and it works decent as a Chrome extension.

[andyassur]

I found this website from a hacking group on Facebook. https://panopticlick.eff.org and the only browsers that passed on at least one test was TOR. When I tested IE11, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox all failed. Now when I added their extension it blocked most of the issues they claimed but I could block some of the issues with uBlock or Adblock Plus. Not sure how legit this is but found it interesting.

Test    Result
Is your browser blocking tracking ads?    ✓ yes
Is your browser blocking invisible trackers?    ✓ yes
Does your blocker stop trackers that are included in the so-called “acceptable ads” whitelist?    ✓ yes
Does your browser unblock 3rd parties that promise to honor Do Not Track?    ✗ no
Does your browser protect from fingerprinting?    ✗ your browser has a unique fingerprint

[jdaniele]

Yea I tried a bunch of combinations. That company's add-ons works, Ad-bloc works, and just a few others are ok. Can't seem to find anything that covers it all. Opera is a great job actually.

[andyassur]

Yea I tried a bunch of combinations. That company's add-ons works, Ad-bloc works, and just a few others are ok. Can't seem to find anything that covers it all. Opera is a great job actually.

i think opera has a build in vpn?

[jdaniele]

Yea I tried a bunch of combinations. That company's add-ons works, Ad-bloc works, and just a few others are ok. Can't seem to find anything that covers it all. Opera is a great job actually.

i think opera has a build in vpn?

It 100% does. They advertise it and I've used it recently. Love seeing stuff like that in a semi main stream browser.

[andyassur]

Yea I tried a bunch of combinations. That company's add-ons works, Ad-bloc works, and just a few others are ok. Can't seem to find anything that covers it all. Opera is a great job actually.

i think opera has a build in vpn?

It 100% does. They advertise it and I've used it recently. Love seeing stuff like that in a semi main stream browser.

they arent that main stream. i would say ie has more users

[jdaniele]

i think opera has a build in vpn?

It 100% does. They advertise it and I've used it recently. Love seeing stuff like that in a semi main stream browser.

they arent that main stream. i would say ie has more users

Oh IE definately does but Opera is still in the group of more known browsers (at least in the tech world). We all know Chrome is the king right now with user count but as for VPN built-in I don't think any of them besides Opera has it.

[jdaniele]

Chrome will start marking all HTTP sites as not secure in July (2018)

https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/08/chrome-will-start-marking-all-http-sites-as-not-secure-in-july/

Its definitely not bad but not sure how practical this really is. Personally I don't feel its completely necessary because some sites are just for content and don't really need direct SSL.

[andyassur]

Chrome will start marking all HTTP sites as not secure in July (2018)

https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/08/chrome-will-start-marking-all-http-sites-as-not-secure-in-july/

Its definitely not bad but not sure how practical this really is. Personally I don't feel its completely necessary because some sites are just for content and don't really need direct SSL.

all sites really should be https

[jdaniele]

Chrome will start marking all HTTP sites as not secure in July (2018)

https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/08/chrome-will-start-marking-all-http-sites-as-not-secure-in-july/

Its definitely not bad but not sure how practical this really is. Personally I don't feel its completely necessary because some sites are just for content and don't really need direct SSL.

all sites really should be https

Personally I agree. I'm really annoyed GoDaddy charges so much for it.

[jdaniele]

So I found an article about discontinuing the use of IE11 which lead me to a list of Chromium based browsers. Even ones that's literal goal is to block all tracking to Google lol.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-security-chief-ie-is-not-a-browser-so-stop-using-it-as-your-default/

https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/all-the-chromium-based-browsers/

Epic and Ungoogled caught my attention enough to post it here. Google really changed the game with their Chromium project.

[jdaniele]

So I found this list on Wiki about all the browsers and they're rendering backends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

[jdaniele]

Awesome website to test if your web browser is prompting you properly for permissions.

https://permission.site