Holy crap why haven't I been using the #Vivaldi #browser all along? Thanks corpse-of-the-Mozilla-foundation for pushing me away to this cool browser by this cool dude on Mastodon. And you can set up Duckduckgo as the default search engine in no-AI mode with like three clicks. Well done. Oh it's free too if you assumed it must cost money. It does not.

Also Fennec macht eigentlich eine gute Figur. 🦊

#Android #Browser #fennec

Holy crap why haven't I been using the #Vivaldi #browser all along? Thanks corpse-of-the-Mozilla-foundation for pushing me away to this cool browser by this cool dude on Mastodon. And you can set up Duckduckgo as the default search engine in no-AI mode with like three clicks. Well done. Oh it's free too if you assumed it must cost money. It does not.

Two years ago, I started browsing with #javascript turned off by default, only enabling it (and saving this decision) when needed. With the browsers I am using, it's only 2 clicks.

A lot of insights I got from this experiment:

- most websites are still usable, minus all the annoyances
- websites that refuse to display content at all w/o JS turn out to be not worth visiting. So you have kind of a quality filter.
- browsing is many times faster
- you use the internet much more focused on the content you were actually looking for. No more distractive images, links, embedded content
- enabling JS on sites that automatically redirect you if your #browser misses JS support can be tricky

Two years ago, I started browsing with #javascript turned off by default, only enabling it (and saving this decision) when needed. With the browsers I am using, it's only 2 clicks.

A lot of insights I got from this experiment:

- most websites are still usable, minus all the annoyances
- websites that refuse to display content at all w/o JS turn out to be not worth visiting. So you have kind of a quality filter.
- browsing is many times faster
- you use the internet much more focused on the content you were actually looking for. No more distractive images, links, embedded content
- enabling JS on sites that automatically redirect you if your #browser misses JS support can be tricky

Anyone having experience with transmitting/receiving data as sound from/to mobile browsers?

What would actually work to transport some megabytes of data and be a little recillient to background noise?

#javascript #mobile #browser

Arti 1.5.0 is out! 🦀
The Rust-based Tor implementation adds new client features:
– Conflux
– Flow & congestion control
– Onion service PoW
– Bug fix for client bootstrapping 🛠️

MSRV now set to Rust 1.85.
Full changelog:
🔗 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#arti-150--28-august-2025

@torproject

#Tor#Arti#Rust#RustLang#OpenSource#Privacy#Cybersecurity#Anonymity#InfoSec#Tails#Decentralization#Encryption#Networking#Onion#FOSS#RustDev#InternetFreedom#Freedom#DigitalRights#Security#CyberSecurity#Browser

The Register covered our stand on AI. We have chosen not to include AI in the browser. Based on your feedback, you do not want it and neither do we.

#Vivaldi#Browser#AI#Linux#Microsoft#Google#Apple#Android#Ios#Technology#Politics

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/

Arti 1.5.0 is out! 🦀
The Rust-based Tor implementation adds new client features:
– Conflux
– Flow & congestion control
– Onion service PoW
– Bug fix for client bootstrapping 🛠️

MSRV now set to Rust 1.85.
Full changelog:
🔗 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#arti-150--28-august-2025

@torproject

#Tor#Arti#Rust#RustLang#OpenSource#Privacy#Cybersecurity#Anonymity#InfoSec#Tails#Decentralization#Encryption#Networking#Onion#FOSS#RustDev#InternetFreedom#Freedom#DigitalRights#Security#CyberSecurity#Browser

The Register covered our stand on AI. We have chosen not to include AI in the browser. Based on your feedback, you do not want it and neither do we.

#Vivaldi#Browser#AI#Linux#Microsoft#Google#Apple#Android#Ios#Technology#Politics

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/