Condobloke
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Delete cookies and site data when LibreWolf is closed
Solved How often do you clear browser history, cookies and cache and why?
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Sherri is a Cat
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Unless you watch YouTube videos without an account, deleting cookies in your browser won't do much. Google keeps track of your video watching and browsing history. You can delete it in your YouTube account.
Sherri is a Cat
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Same here
Persistent storage... I'm still newish and plan to check if this happens in Linux
This is something I'll probably want to do later when I'm not so new.
This sounds easier...
Why would you keep them???
I don't mind the consequences.
Bookmarks
Do you have black tape on the camera lens of your phone too?
Me neither.
Sherri is a Cat
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I realise that saying this won't win me any friends, but it's modern online reality, unfortunately. We're all of us just a "commodity". No more, no less.
(shrug...)
Mike.
No matter how measures I take to protect my privacy they can still fingerprint me. Even with a VPN they still have my device ID. I've been asking around if there is a way to change it or mask it. I have a new geek friend who told me it's possible. He works in cyber security. He's also "Linux Certified", whatever that means. He said it can be done and gave me a link to start at. We'll see...
And yes, I did tell him to join this forum!
Condobloke
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My settings:
..... to test your browser:
These are my settings in privacy & Security in Librewolf, just to give you something for comparison.
..... to test your browser:
Sherri is a Cat
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My settings:
These are my settings in privacy & Security in Librewolf, just to give you something for comparison.
..... to test your browser:
One more thing to put on my 'To Do List'... Check out Libre Wolfe. I'm a little unhappy with Firefox since they made some changes about a year ago or so...
Condobloke
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I use Librewolf currently. Not because it is totally secure. Nothing is. But it makes some serious attempts and appears to be quite believable/sincere in doing so.
In addition, I find it to be comfortable to use. Nothing unexpected, it behaves itself in my dual monitor setup, nothing to dislike thus far.
The Linux Mint settings in Appearance/Windows/Behaviour has remarkable input for controlling the dual monitor setup.
Librewolf also updates via the Update Manager in LM22.1
In addition, I find it to be comfortable to use. Nothing unexpected, it behaves itself in my dual monitor setup, nothing to dislike thus far.
The Linux Mint settings in Appearance/Windows/Behaviour has remarkable input for controlling the dual monitor setup.
Librewolf also updates via the Update Manager in LM22.1
I do both, no account, no google chrome.
Condobloke
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further comment re Librewolf...
NOTE: ONLY remove the old repository if your PC has previously run librewolf...otherwise Ignore.
librewolf.net
From the above link, be sure to do steps 1,2,& 3
NOTE: ONLY remove the old repository if your PC has previously run librewolf...otherwise Ignore.
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
From the above link, be sure to do steps 1,2,& 3
Sadly, I never delete my cookies or browsing history. If i am getting tracked, then i am glad that someone knows who and where i am, since i am so old i am buggered if i know who or where i am most days, now. ;-)
Aristarchus
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VPN will not protect against detecting device ID.
If you just want to be anonymous I would suggest Tor browser. In the case that your ISP considers Tor somewhat "subversive" you can tunnel Tor within VPN as it seems that VPN is not that suspicious for most ISPs. In the case when ISP considers VPN is suspicious too, use TLS/VPN and tunnel with it Tor. Now your traffic looks like standard HTTPS connection.
So now your ISP is blind and you are anonymous too.
However none of this will protect against TLAs and such. Which is not your goal anyway
Hardware masking is quite over the top but if you are interested read up about Qubes OS. This is one way of hiding your hardware ID. Of course there are other options too.
I rarely clean ~/.cache folder manually, as it uses just 2.5 GiB on disk:
I use crontab, instead, to delete all ~/.cache files older than 365 days, after each boot:
Once, I have tried to clean cookies, using the browser capabilities, and I had to configure all sites again.
I use crontab, instead, to delete all ~/.cache files older than 365 days, after each boot:
Code:
@reboot sleep 420; find ~/.cache/ -type f -atime +365 -deleteOnce, I have tried to clean cookies, using the browser capabilities, and I had to configure all sites again.
Tor browser does it to a limited degree in that you only have 2 cores and a fake resolution (well, if you don't maximize it, lol). It fakes fonts and user agent (though nobody uses this these days since, IIRC you can can it in most browsers anyway FF = Chrome, Chrome = FF...) but the problem is few people have those specs so it's a flag to sites you're using Tor Browser, which is TBB's goal: needle in haystack -- the problem is there isn't enough hay yet.
I think the biggest thing, and hardly anyone seems to talk about this, is mouse cursor movement. It's like handwriting; pretty unique. I flip the DPI way high (I love my gaming mice for everything but gaming) when I browse Google-owned sites that force me to enable scripts. And I can use a mouse left- or right-handed about the same, but how effective that is in mitigating this technique, I have no idea. I think this is a pretty everything-agnostic method. I remember reading about this "possibility" if data processing wasn't too complex like 20 years or more back. But we have machine learning now, which kinda renders most data processing hurdles obsolete. So IDK if it's already in place. So far Youtube's still fooled by my random watching habits, lack of account, and using yt-dlp when I actually want to watch something.
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I used to clear everything at the end of the session, but now I keep cookies for logins and cookie warnings.
We realised that the Chromium-based browsers / forks have no 'simple' or 'easy' way to accomplish this automatically, so one of our Puppy forum members figured out the following short stanza that we add to the very end of the launch wrapper-script in the 'portable' browsers most of us now use:-
Code:
yad --undecorated --center --text=" Do you wish to clear the Chromium cache? " \
--button="YES PLEASE - clear cache":2 \
--button="NO THANKS - don't clear cache":1 \
#
foo=$?
#
[[ $foo -eq 1 ]] && exit 0
#
if [[ $foo -eq 2 ]]; then
rm -rf $HERE/PROFILE/Default/Cache/*
/usr/lib/gtkdialog/box_splash -placement top -bg "#07FE18" -fg black -timeout 5 -text " ~~~ CACHE CLEARED! ~~~" && exit 0
fiThe $HERE variable is defined at the beginning of the wrapper script:-
Code:
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"....and is what enables keeping everything "in-house" within the portable's self-contained directory.
What this does is to bring up a wee YAD-powered GUI that gives the user the option of whether to clear the cache or not.
Just adds this functionality, AND makes things a bit more user-friendly in the process. A wee gtk-dialog 'banner' pops-up at the top of the screen for a few seconds, just to confirm what's happening.....
Mike.
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Condobloke
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That means they have a CHOICE .....and that, is what Linux is all about.
I have just Brave open at the moment as I'm off to bed.
I can look at the rest tomorrow but at least Brave lets you do so. I can't speak for the rest - but I suspect you're right and that Brave is an oulier.
As such, I just show it as an example where it could be done. I'm quite sure you've all investigated it to some extent already. If anything, it could be the exception that proves the point.
Either way, I'm off for the night.
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