• phorq@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As an arch user, I’m confused… Doesn’t everyone use curl as their browser?

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      1 year ago

      I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.

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        1 year ago

        I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

        Fuck. What the hell.

        I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that plus Tor plus LibreJS is enough to prevent my browsing from being associated with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.

        Ironically I think this makes his the most unique fingerprint in the whole internet.