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Superior Software Nanonymous No.3182 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>3183 >>3197 >>3205 >>5494
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Post software that hold such a superiority to its competition that it's dumbfounding.
I'll start with uMatrix
>MUCH less bloated than most *standalone* script blockers and *standalone* ad blockers
>superior features
>superior user control
>increases performance while most of its competition does the opposite
>only unusable to """tech-illiterates""" who can't handle more than one shiny button at a time

Nanonymous No.3183 [D][U][F] >>3195
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>>3182
Wolfram Mathematica

Nanonymous No.3185 [D][U][F]
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Nanonymous No.3195 [D][U][F]
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>>3183
Not familiar with Wolfram Mathematica, but Wolfram Alpha is annoying as fuck as all results they give are fucking images.

Nanonymous No.3197 [D] >>3200

>>3182
Con: You can't blacklist individual scripts. It requires you to make a custom filter on uBlock, which is more than a little silly.

Nanonymous No.3200 [D]

>>3197
Fair. I feel like implementing that into uMatrix would be a lot easier than other extensions successfully emulating most of uMatrix's features, though.

Nanonymous No.3205 [D] >>3230 >>4849

>>3182
Explorer.exe
>only good because everything else is fucking terrible
nigchink
>best image viewer
>can do the same thing gsync/freesync do on any monitor even one from 1980
>0 input lag, 0 motion blur, 0 judder
>less than 2000 lines of code

>uMatrix
it's fucking trash. you don't need any blockers with JS disabled (javascript.enable;0). web browser plugins are shit and meme

Nanonymous No.3221 [D] >>3253

Redpill me on how this is better than NoScript.

Nanonymous No.3230 [D] >>3252

>>3205
Been a while since I've used Windows but I think Explorer++ was what I used. What's wrong with Ifranview?

Nanonymous No.3252 [D]

>>3230
oh god ppl asking me whats wrong with x and y. i have a whole article pending criticizing every image viewer i could find. IIRC irfanview was slow as fuck. panning and changing to next image in the gallery was slow. and there's no vsync. You can enable DWM but then the vsync will still be broken as fuck or laggy (can't remember which). for windows i think the best image viewer before nigchink was FastStone (which is also shit).

Nanonymous No.3253 [D] >>3256

>>3221
are you asking me to explain why it's better to go to about:config and double click "javascript.enabled" than to install a giant plugin (with more untrusted code and perf hits) dedicated to mitigating XSS,CSRF,clickjacking, etc (and introducing new vulns in the process)

Nanonymous No.3256 [D] >>3257 >>4846

>3221
It's faster than NoShit. It allows better control for you to restrict tracking images and cookies and scripts, media etc. on a per-site basis.
>>3253
This does not protect you from tracking pixels etc. It also doesn't allow for any flexibility in case you need javashit for a trusted website.

Nanonymous No.3257 [D]

>>3256
you might as well use a separate browser instance as any site with JS destabilizes a piece of shit like firefox or gnome until restart. firefox has --profilemanager exactly for this

Nanonymous No.3355 [D]

lol. s/gnome/chrome

Nanonymous No.4846 [D] >>4848

>>3256
But can uMatrix block requests to 127.0.0.1 which can fingerprint your port configuartions?
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10419
Can uMatrix disable @font-face which can be used to see which fonts you have (which typically reveals OS)?
https://arthuredelstein.github.io/tordemos/os-detection-font-css.html
NoScript can do those. I use both NoScript and uMatrix because they do different things: NoScript is good for global sanitization of websites, while uMatrix is good for specialized control of specific websites.

Nanonymous No.4848 [D]

>>4846
Why should css be able to selectively request resources from an external server anyway? By disabling this feature, would you be able to completely sidestep css fingerprinting (fonts, etc), or is this not enough?

Nanonymous No.4849 [D] >>5406

>>3205
>browser plugin meme
I think you mean "dependent meme" since browsers are meme and the only way to use the internet correctly is with wget or curl which are "independent meme". Are you telling me you aren't wgetting these pages into terminal. fucking noob

Nanonymous No.5246 [D]
uMtarix does other stuff.
Going into a prefs everytime for every site that does/does not require JS sounds tedius.
Just disabling JS sounds nice but I sense a big gap.

Nanonymous No.5406 [D] >>5412
>>4849
lol you fucking newfag. if you don't manually code a network request in c for every single webpage and post you make then you should go back to reddit

Nanonymous No.5412 [D]
>>5406
>not printing your own NIC
>not running a ISP
Heh.

Nanonymous No.5465 [D] >>5473
Ungoogled-Chromium and Waterfox are nice browsers.

Nanonymous No.5466 [D] >>5467
WeeChat (not WeChat) is a good chat client, can even be used with Matrix.

Linux or BSD BTFOs Micro$oft (the company that was named after someone's dick) Windblows and Crapple.


Nanonymous No.5467 [D]
>>5466

Named after the user's dick most likely.

Anyone who uses Microsoft has a micro soft.

Nanonymous No.5473 [D][U][F] >>5474 >>5476 >>5477 >>5478 >>5480
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>>5465
>Waterfox
>nice browser
O RLY?
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox.html

Nanonymous No.5474 [D] >>5476
>>5473
Are there any browsers that provide XUL support other than waterfox?

Nanonymous No.5476 [D]
>>5473

The reddit discussion that is liked in that blog post is quite illuminating, as the Dev responds to the concerns.

The phoning home to Googlag is more than a little worrying however, I'd like to learn more about that.

>>5474

Pale Moon/Basilisk?

Nanonymous No.5477 [D] >>5490
>>5473

It's also kinda funny that one of the lists linked there declares Ungoogled-Chromium the holy-grail, when it seems to get dismissed and shat all over elsewhere as "just some project a student did".

Why doesn't the Tor team use it (Ungoogled-Chromium) and uMatrix instead of shitty Firefox?

Nanonymous No.5478 [D]
>>5473

According to this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/aizc01/please_dont_use_tracking_scripts_on_your_website/

You can simply disable through an extension, which would seem to mean that it is their site that used Google Analytics, not the browser.

I checked just now and uMatrix shows no connections on their site being made to Google Analytics.

So it's either embedded in the browser to run on startup (seems unlikely), or it was on their site and, now, is not.

I agree that it is still hypocritical of them to do so, but not as big of an issue as it sounds.

Nanonymous No.5479 [D]
Their current Privacy Policy makes a distinction between their website and their browser.
Their browser does not collect personal information:
https://www.waterfox.net/privacy/

Nanonymous No.5480 [D]
>>5473

Just tested Waterfox using mitmproxy as mentioned here:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/liftingtheveil.html

Waterfox does not phone home to Google Analytics.

Nanonymous No.5494 [D] >>5496
>>3182
I prefer uBlock Orign, its almost the same.

Nanonymous No.5496 [D]
>>5494
Not really. uBlock is better with ads, uMatrix with elements over all.
I recommend (and do) using both.

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/a8s3b8/ublock_origin_umatrix_combined_use/

Nanonymous No.5499 [D] >>5524
systemd

Nanonymous No.5524 [D]
>>5499

runit

Nanonymous No.5538 [D]
minimodem

Nanonymous No.5556 [D]
urxt/rxvt-unicode (with plugins)

Renders ACSII art (ie neofetch) better than all other terminals.

Only downside is it acts like a CRT tv, and has lots of esoteric features, and can't do emojis.

LibVTE terminals are BLOAT!

Alacritty seems nice, but can't render half as good as URXVT, ditto Suckless's ST.
Literally lines will break in them.