Falkon Browser Privacy Hardening (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Grangle1@lemm.ee to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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I've been wanting to use the Falkon browser as my daily driver because I like the integration with the Plasma desktop and it works quite well for most things, but I've been hesitant to do so because there are so few extensions and the only privacy-focused one is the AdBlock. I've tried using GreaseMonkey scripts, but half of the few privacy-focused scripts I've found just don't work and I'm not good enough with scripting to really figure out why. I've set what I could in the Preferences menu for privacy, but I'm wondering if there is any way to access other settings to do things like disable WebGL and/or otherwise block trackers and prevent fingerprinting? If I can set it up to be reasonably close to Brave or LibreWolf privacy-wise, I'd be happy to use it more.

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[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

Falkon is chromibun based. I would recommand staying with firefox

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 11 months ago

Blink the web engine Chromium is using is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit,which was originally a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. So it is other way around. You are right I the sense that the biggest contributor to WebKit is Google.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 11 months ago

..Wait, it's all KDE?

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 11 months ago

It was and we are super-proud of that. But a lot has been contributed from Apple and Google. That said, it is the reason the engine is still LGPL.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I found out about this tidbit of history not too long ago and I think it's really neat!
Goes to show how open development is often at the forefront of innovation, or when it isn't, it ends up better than the crippled proprietary counterparts.

Thank ~~god~~ iGNUcius for copyleft, otherwise the web landscape could be much grimmer today

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

thst's super fucking cool

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I thought Falkon has been more of a dead parrot for quite a while, hasn't it?

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 11 months ago

It is still updated judging by the git commits. Btw Konqueror gets new releases as well.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I'm no programmer, but are those updates real ones (improving security, functions, etc.) or is it more like keeping up with modernised libraries throughout the system? I believe this is the case at least with Konqueror.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

I think the latter

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