Falkon Browser Privacy Hardening

I’ve been wanting to use the Falkon browser as my daily driver because I like the integration with the Plasma desktop and it works quite well for most things, but I’ve been hesitant to do so because there are so few extensions and the only privacy-focused one is the AdBlock. I’ve tried using GreaseMonkey scripts, but half of the few privacy-focused scripts I’ve found just don’t work and I’m not good enough with scripting to really figure out why. I’ve set what I could in the Preferences menu for privacy, but I’m wondering if there is any way to access other settings to do things like disable WebGL and/or otherwise block trackers and prevent fingerprinting? If I can set it up to be reasonably close to Brave or LibreWolf privacy-wise, I’d be happy to use it more.

kurcatovium ,
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I thought Falkon has been more of a dead parrot for quite a while, hasn’t it?

coolmojo ,

It is still updated judging by the git commits. Btw Konqueror gets new releases as well.

kurcatovium ,
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I’m no programmer, but are those updates real ones (improving security, functions, etc.) or is it more like keeping up with modernised libraries throughout the system? I believe this is the case at least with Konqueror.

Pantherina ,

I think the latter

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

Falkon is chromibun based. I would recommand staying with firefox

coolmojo ,

Blink the web engine Chromium is using is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit,which was originally a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. So it is other way around. You are right I the sense that the biggest contributor to WebKit is Google.

QuazarOmega ,

…Wait, it’s all KDE?

Bro666 Mod ,
@Bro666@lemmy.kde.social avatar

It was and we are super-proud of that. But a lot has been contributed from Apple and Google. That said, it is the reason the engine is still LGPL.

QuazarOmega ,

Yeah, I found out about this tidbit of history not too long ago and I think it’s really neat!
Goes to show how open development is often at the forefront of innovation, or when it isn’t, it ends up better than the crippled proprietary counterparts.

Thank god iGNUcius for copyleft, otherwise the web landscape could be much grimmer today

forrestguid ,
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@Bro666 there was a 1980s software millionaire whose web site's links wouldn't work right with Konqueror because his link-decoration code violated the DTD spec, relying on Firefox's quirks mode. I pointed this out via email and his response was "My code is correct and no one uses Konqueror any more and it's garbage anyway!" — at roughly the very moment Apple swallowed KHTML.

QuazarOmega ,

He was a time traveler boycotting Google with a Firefox-only website before they could even come out with Chromium

Bro666 Mod ,
@Bro666@lemmy.kde.social avatar

Yikes

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

thst’s super fucking cool

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