System-level ad-blocking in Android(kevinboone.me)

45 points by birdculture 19 days ago | 31 comments

Kevin Boone's article explaining how to block ads system-wide on Android in 2026 using DNS-based methods rather than per-app blockers.

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL(hacktivis.me)

759 points by HypnoticOcelot 4 months ago | 441 comments

Blog post complaining that Cloudflare Turnstile loops indefinitely in a WebKitGTK browser because it demands a WebGL device fingerprint.

They don't make 'em like that any more: Dyson Pure Cool-Me personal air purifier(kevinboone.me)

27 points by thomasjb 1 year ago | 36 comments

The Ken Thompson Hack(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by stephc_int13 2 years ago | 27 comments

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)(tim.dierks.org)

520 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 223 comments

Tim Dierks' 2014 blog post explaining how Netscape-Microsoft browser war politics led SSL to be standardized and renamed as TLS.

Getting back into C programming for CP/M(kevinboone.me)

204 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 92 comments

Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs(tuta.com)

895 points by grammers 2 years ago | 576 comments

A Tuta blog post comparing web browsers by their privacy features to help readers choose a private browser.

Fingerprints are the new cookies(royfish.dev)

694 points by royfish 14 days ago | 333 comments

Interactive post demonstrating browser fingerprinting by assigning a persistent nickname derived from audio, GPU, WebGL, canvas, time zone and hardware signals.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities(fingerprint.com)

888 points by danpinto 6 months ago | 269 comments

Fingerprint blog post describing a stable Firefox identifier, reportedly via IndexedDB, that can link a user's separate private Tor Browser identities.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

The browser's main thread is expensive(kciter.so)

408 points by kciter 1 month ago | 141 comments

A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.