Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox Subject: Re: Is there a de-mozzilla'd FIrefox (similar to degoogled chromium)? Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 11:12:16 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <1061qe9$29dl$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <1062mdb$v70$2@ereborbbs.duckdns.org> <1062qv6$v70$4@ereborbbs.duckdns.org> <10631u8$30jtj$1@paganini.bofh.team> <1068jlo$2v9n$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <106bimq$fd4$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <9uti8kd3rlqljdd5klssmns3jf57dm2625@4ax.com> <106bu7s$2m9f$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <68897D74.2010609@backwurst.de> <106cg35$6gc$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net gRPQEeyq9I93nZjqo65C1QUbqqF3g5tX+qETUz+yQfDie+iTas Cancel-Lock: sha1:43w8KVZ3G78I53p2yms+vs6atMM= sha256:NT/sVd5z8EsCuukd8ObDx5m3gYRVcmWptK/IvqDvAUE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <106cg35$6gc$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:14400 Marion wrote: > There are two golden rules for privacy on the net, and one is to never > register for anything (the other is never pay with a traceable method). > > Anyone doing either of those forbidden actions (especially nowadays with > even throwaway emails requiring phone or a second email validation) will > never stand a snowball's chance in hell to have any privacy, even with VPN. While I choose not to actually /do/ it, I have done some 'thought experiments' in resolving what is 'troubling' privacy above. You need an anonymous persona. There are a number of ways to create that; I think the most practical approach is the concept of a 'burner' phone, so solve the 'connectivity' problem along w/ the anonymous persona problem; that is, first step. The other thing you need is anonymous 'finances' in the form of a cryptocoin which aids anonymizing. Personally I haven't dev/d a full 'background' on the coins, but I don't much like the ones which are too speculative. You can't really 'get' a true stablecoin which is also anonymizing, but you can get coins which /are/ anonymizing and much less speculative than such as bitcoin. Since this thread is *actually* more of a 'severe' privacy issue than it is a 'browser' issue, except that the thread is about wanting a Ffx type browser (if possible) AND severe privacy, you HAVE TO solve the severe privacy first, and that requires an identity/persona w/ the ability to pay for things. There is no such thing as a free ride when you impose all of the restrictions you have decided upon. -- Mike Easter