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🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing - GrapheneOS | Web browsing https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/ - Mullvad Adblocking DNS server https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/ - Microsoft article on CVE data https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium - Vanadium GitHub Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. If you’ve been following my channel for any length of time, then you know that I use graphene OS on my mobile device. My browser of choice is the one that’s bundled with it, which has vanadium. In addition to being bundled with the OS, there are a few other reasons I really like it, which I’ll cover in today’s video on graphene OS vanadium is the user facing browser that’s included with the OS and the provider of web view, which is used by other apps to render content. Now you might be asking what is what view. So as an example, let’s take a look at mastodon. Now there’s a post on Mastodon with a link included with it. And I selected, we can see that the page was opened, but I wasn’t actually taken outside of the Mastadon app to my web browser. Instead, the app displayed the link using web view. So even though you might not think you’re using vanadium, if we select the three dots in the upper right-hand corner, we can see at the bottom running in vanadium. So, that’s what web view is, as the name implies, that lets you view the web vanadium is a chromium-based browser, which means it provides the strongest sandbox implementation available for browsers at this time. Among other security features like exploit protection and site isolation. Vanadium actually improves upon these features, so you get even more protection as compared to using the standard Chrome browser. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://brave.com/download/ - Brave Browser Download https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API - WebRTC Explained https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#safe-browsing - Brave Safe Browsing Privacy Policy https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls Extension Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. So I’m going to be brave here and to share with you my brave browser settings. Before that, I want to make a quick disclaimer, there is some benefit that comes with just using the default settings the browser comes with, you blend in with all the other default installs instead of using a customized browser. Brave is what I’m using right now on my desktop. On my mobile, I’m using vanadium. Privacy and security are always changing. So what you see now will likely evolve over time and change. But this is what works well for me at the time of this recording. In the past, I used Safari on Googled chromium, chromium, Firefox with a bunch of add ons. So take it with a grain of salt, always do your own research and use my advice as a starting point to figure out what’s best for you. And then lastly, as far as security goes, Chromium is more secure than Firefox at this time, which is why I’m using brave a chromium based browser. The only time I use Firefox is when I’m using Tor browser. So for this demonstration, I’ll be using a fresh install of brave on Windows 11. So once you first install brave, you’ll see this screen, I’m going to just click Skip welcome tour, you’re presented with this busy dashboard. And the first thing we’re going to do to start our customization, click the three bars in the upper right hand corner and go into settings. If you already have brave installed on your computer, you can just follow along and go into the settings. So on the first section getting started, I just leave all this set to the default, I don’t change anything here, you can make brave your default browser if you want. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21i.htm - Firefox Snake Oil - Main article referenced https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks - EFF original announcement of DNT https://gizmodo.com/do-not-track-the-privacy-tool-used-by-millions-of-peop-1828868324 https://www.wired.com/story/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-explained/ https://www.groovypost.com/reviews/internet-explorer-10-preview-windows-7/ https://www.wired.com/2012/08/microsoft-do-not-track-is-good-for-users-on-by-default-in-ie-10/) https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-stops-supporting-not-track-privacy-setting-163054926.html - Yahoo stopping support for DNT https://martech.org/know-twitters-latest-privacy-policy-update/ - Twitter stopping support for DNT https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761 - Google doesn’t support DNT https://www.macworld.com/article/232426/apple-safari-removing-do-not-track.html - Apple removes DNT from Safari How to disable “Do Not Track” in popular browsers https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761 - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Chrome https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Firefox https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/do-not-track-setting-in-edge/b3d7b40f-dfce-47f7-b9ab-9d0e940ccf97 - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Edge Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ...

🎥 Video Link How to apply to the browser beta Install the DuckDuckGo mobile app Open the app → select the 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner → click Settings Scroll down to the section labeled More From DuckDuckGo Select DuckDuckGo Desktop App → press Join waitlist Links referenced for video https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-duckduckgo-for-mac/ - Official DDG blog post https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 - DDG Tweet about down-ranking https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and-youtube-dl-from-its-search-results-220415/ - TF article about DDG removing pirate sites from results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track - Do Not Track HTTP header

🎥 Video Link Firefox Users For some reason, I wasn’t able to get Firefox to send a blank header even with the Empty header mode enabled. Perhaps it’s something with the browser. As a workaround, enter a space in the Value box once you get to step 5. Click the Value box, and hit your space bar once. After that, everything should work as expected. If you know why it’s not working, please reach out. ...

🎥 Video Link Blocking Cookies How to block Third-Party Cookies in Firefox Click the hamburger (settings) menu in the top right → select settings. Select Privacy & Security on the left. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection select Custom Check the Cookies box, click the dropdown next to it, and select All third-party cookies BONUS - Also check the boxes for Tracking content, Cryptominers, and Fingerprinters. How to block Third-Party Cookies in Chrome/Chromium Click the vertical 3 dot menu in the top right → select settings. Select Privacy and Security on the left. Click Cookies and other site data Under Generatl settings select the Block third-party cookies radio button. How to block Third-Party Cookies in Safari Click Safari in the top menu bar and select Preferences.... Select the Privacy tab. Check the box next to Website tracking: that says Prevent cross-site tracking How to block Third-Party Cookies in Microsoft Edge Download Firefox …just kidding. Click the horizontal 3 dot menu in the top right → select settings. Select Cookies and site permissions on the left. Under Cookies and data stored click Manage and delete cookies and site data. Click the button next to Block third-party cookies. Links referenced for video https://www.facesofopensource.com/person/lou-montulli/ - Stunning photos of individuals who contributed to the development and advancement of Open Source Software. https://www.techopedia.com/definition/8207/magic-cookie https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/aol-buys-netscape-for-4-2-billion/ https://www.cookiepro.com/knowledge/what-is-a-session-cookie/ https://www.invisibly.com/learn-blog/companies-selling-your-personal-data https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/privacy/what-are-cookies/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie