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 11:34:57 -0700 Lines: 42 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 sPYrZqskrwqMFL6AklDhBgyDp1EzI6BkW9BOrUI3UJsiKXYmuu Cancel-Lock: sha1:giDayhcWu2lcoNhCfbbe8rR80OQ= sha256:3vUW7sIy+9Bg2Vbc4kXvR2mfUL/ln7C/Nq3Xkh40kMA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:14401 Mike Easter wrote: > 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). >> > While I choose not to actually /do/ it, I have done some 'thought > experiments' in resolving what is 'troubling' privacy above. > We can use our conversation here as an example of something. First, as a 'basis' of the non-privacy end of things; I don't use a privacy browser at all. I also use an NSP which not only requires reg, it also requires payment annually. OK fine. You instead are using blueworldhosting as your NSP to post here and like most other people including me, do not expose your IP to the 'world' via the NSP nor your name and email. OK fine. We aren't that different. Your NSP has excellent retention and no reg. If someone wants to 'uncover' your persona, they would start w/ the IP you connect to blueworldhosting and the 'clarity' of your handwriting which I have observed in your messages for years. I don't think it would be that hard to uncover you; not that I am any kind of fan of dox/ing, but it could be part of a conversation about privacy that involves who is the/your adversary and who isn't. My 'philosophy' is that I don't have adversaries who need to know who I am and so I don't have to go to any trouble for 'severe privacy'. To me, the only people who need severe privacy are criminals and those who are actively fighting against an oppressive state actor; that is, if you do dev a strong adversary w/ some kind of power, you have a problem. Typically the people who discuss privacy in such as the privacy groups don't actually *state* why they are so interested to go to so much trouble and inconvenience. I do NOT believe that people do that just for the fun or challenge of it, but I also do NOT know what other reason/s they could possibly have besides the ones I mention here. -- Mike Easter