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Board Updates /tech/ Owner!!9F4THsbPsQ 04/03/15 (Fri) 12:30:23 a601ba No.161

Hello! Just wanted to share some new things I've implemented for /tech/.

I've added a new, fully-sourced page outlining why Google Chrome is a botnet and is bad for privacy. You can find it at https://8ch.net/tech/chrome.html (aka. no need for any more "Welcome to the botnet." threads. :^) )

If there's anything else you guys would like to suggest for a board page, feel free to share!

I have also broadened the tech support sticky to cover tech questions as a whole. Do you need help with anything, or want to ask a small question? Please post in there. Thanks.

Also, following copypaste's addition of cyclical threads, I have made the 2 stickies cyclical as well. This means replies to those threads will start being automatically pruned once new replies come up, so no need to completely replace the stickies time and time again.

PS: Please check out >>183
Thanks!

Post last edited at 04/04/15 (Sat) 15:48:05

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 13:08:22 298e4c No.162

What about Chromium?

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 13:09:35 0ec4ab No.163

>a new, fully-sourced page outlining why Google Chrome is a botnet
we should add this to the wiki so that it can be updated as need be. in it's current state it can only be modified by one man (or lady/trans/xhe/etc).

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 13:10:20 e30130 No.164

>>162
Yes, I too would like to know if these are all features I can simply disable.

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 13:47:13 a6faca No.166

Disable everything under settings > advanced > privacy

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 14:58:24 b0172b No.168

>>162
>>164
I think that Chromium does everything except for point 6.

It's possible to make Chromium more or less secure, but I think it's easier to make a browser like Firefox behave similar to Chrome instead, and the result is definitely more secure.

The page should probably have alternatives to Chrome. Don't list Chromium - it's better than Chrome from a software freedom perspective, but not really from a privacy perspective.

Firefox, Pale Moon and Qupzilla should be listed. What else?

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 15:28:49 7681f7 No.173

>>168
Firefox gives you exactly the same amount of privacy as Chromium does.

All those things (aside from #6) are on-by-default in both browsers. Both download exactly the same malware lists and both do the download phone-home thing, again, on by default just like Chromium (about:config -> "safebrowsing").

Welcome to the botnet? You never left it.

Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 16:26:17 e30130 No.174

The main reason I don't want to ditch Chromium is that Firefox seems to be loosing more and more support by everyone as time passes on. So wouldn't it make more sense to have someone audit chromiums code and fork the browser?

I also don't really get the webkit hate. Didn't google replace webkit?

Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 02:33:55 4ae752 No.177

>>174
>wanting chrome/chromium to become an IE6 2.0 monopoly situation

Use Firefox/PaleMoon. You are part of the problem for not using a browser because it "seems to be loosing more and more support". That's a bogus reason anyways; Firefox has not lost support on any major website. I recall it not supporting 60fps youtube, but that's because google owns both youtube and chrome, so they naturally added support in their own browser quickly. And that's ONE website. A GOOGLE-OWNED website.

Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 09:48:23 6c8ab0 No.179

>>168
Midori. The latest version 5.9 is very stable more more so than the latest version of qupuzila. At least for me when ladt ran them.

Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 22:03:41 b0172b No.186

>>174
Webkit wasn't really replaced. It was forked.

Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 23:24:02 f4653a No.188

>>168

IceCat should be in there for sure.
How deep down the rabbit hole do you want to go? Do you want more polished browsers or do you want to link some more niche ones like Luakit or Surf all the way down to w3m or Elinks?

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 01:22:59 6c8ab0 No.189

>>168
From the source to point 6

"The code that makes this work is not included in the open source project (http://www.chromium.org) because it only applies to the version of the browser that Google distributes, Google Chrome."

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 19:27:28 cdafdb No.195

>Connects to Google every 30 minutes to download a list of malicious URLs, so the fact that you even have Google open is transmitted to Google
>Have Google open
You mean "Have Chrome open"?

Anonymous 04/05/15 (Sun) 21:47:56 bf2eb0 No.196

>>195
The joke/point is that they're one and the same or am I reading too much into this?

/tech/ Owner!!9F4THsbPsQ 04/05/15 (Sun) 22:00:49 a601ba No.197

>>195
Wew

Didn't even notice. :^)

Anonymous 04/06/15 (Mon) 06:22:05 af6b3b No.198

>>162
A small bunch of us are forking it in an attempt to secure it.

dunno if we're going to get anywhere, but we'll try.

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 05:51:11 f50a87 No.204

>>197
What about pages that answers questions that plague Consumer Advice thread? Like /tech/'s recommended laptops or something.