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Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.
https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/
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privacy in vimb? #671

Open Sahithium-Z opened 3 years ago

Sahithium-Z commented 3 years ago

I am very happy with vimb as a fast browser, however I am concerned about its privacy. There doesn't seem to be any sort of tracker blocker built in. I am aware of the adblocker, but I don't think that blocks trackers as well. Is there a way to block trackers and fingerprinting etc.?

ostrov040 commented 3 years ago

I assume that can be resolved by creating custom scripts.js file in $HOME/.config/vimb and by setting the user-scripts option to true to apply the custom script to all pages.

fanglingsu commented 3 years ago

@Sahithium-Z To block webtracking you could give https://github.com/jun7/wyebadblock a try. But disable fingerprinting is another level and I assume that this would not be possible with webkit or any other browser engine, at least not with reasonable effort.

Sadoon-AlBader commented 3 years ago

This is actually something I'm considering patching into WebKit. In Firefox it is very simple to change this or disable them, but WebKit doesn't have those features built in. Right now you can disable fingerprinting for most things except these: Available fonts, timezone, and platform (e.g. linux x86_64) IF you decide to disable JavaScript, then yes, all fingerprinting can be disabled. If/when I patch these features into WebKit, I'll also add them to Vimb as settings. Shouldn't be too difficult.

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