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This might not be exactly what you meant or wanted, but I use OpenSnitch, which alerts me about all new connections. I also use temporary disposable virtual machines in QubesOS to isolate those kinds of activities from my more vulnerable systems.


You have to choose from one of two strategies, either you go with tor-browser (also includes Mulvad-browser) route and try make your browser indistinguishable from others or you randomize values to make stable fingerprinting impossible.

When trying to be similar to everyone else, even small changes to the browser, like changing window size, can make you easily identifiable from everyone else. Randomizing will allow you to modify your browser. None of the fingerprinting protections matter if you use your browser and session to login to some sites.

I use multiple browsers. One is for login to sites and tor-browser is for most of my browsing.

This is easily the best fingerprinting extension that I have found so far: https://jshelter.org/


I think you're right with having a two-browser setup and I actually want to give it a spin. I envision I'll need to change some habits but it really does seem like the cleanest way to go about it.


I'm having lots of problems with fingerprinting protection on Librewolf and ungoogled-chromium. I use uBlock Origin and JShelter extensions on both. I'm always getting "your browser is out of date" despite always having the most newest versions.

Some sites like Stackexchange will work after just reloading the page. And rest of the sites usually work when I remove Javascript protection and Fingerprint detection from JShelter. Sill not all of them. So, they maybe/probably want to reliably fingerprint my browser to let me continue.

If I use crappy fingerprint protection, I'm not having problems but if I actually randomize some values then sites wont work. JShelter deterministicly randomizes some values using session identifier and eTLD+1 domain as a key to avoid breaking site functionality but apparently Cloudflare is beeing really picky. Tor browser is not having these problems but it uses different strategy to protect itself from fingerprinting and doesn't randomize values but tries to have unified values across different users making identification impossible.


I don't have much more knowledge about this than you probably have and I'm sure you did your own googling but just in case you missed this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4912092/using-html5-canv...

Suggested tool by best answer was this. https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas


thank you this is what i need


I would expect large majority to have a decent fixed price data packages. However there are people that have slow speeds and/or expensive metered data plans, so I wouldn't get too frisky. Overall bandwidth is usually the bottleneck, so yes.


I am building a chat application(http://tiny.chat) that will use less bandwidth. Is it worth optimizing reduce as many bytes as possible? Or the end user doesn't care if there are couple of extra KB used?


A couple KB shouldn't make much of a difference. If your app explodes in popularity, then yes, you should make every effort to optimize.


My question is does the average joe care if app is using less bandwidth or it doesn't matter.


To be honest, for a couple KB's worth of difference, probably not. But I'd assume it'd be good practice to optimize the best you can regardless.


In practice, it kind of is. Because of the caching. This mechanism also adapts to possible future changes. Today jQuery is popular, tomorrow it might be something else.


How else are they going to track everyone?


Jolla has quit doing mobile devices. Market was too fast evolving for a small company. They are purely in OS business now. Supported hardware coverage is not too wide yet though.


When I'm tired and/or lazy I seem to lack a ability to accept the truth. I seek for easy solution instead of actually doing what I already know I supposed to do. Luckily nowadays I am able to recognize this and call it a day.


Metabolism gets used to aerobic exercise quickly so it is not good for loosing fat. High intensity training (HIT) burns more fat overall.

Timing on carbohydrates is important also. Eat them when you need them like around exercise, before work or in the morning. After your glucose storage is full extra energy will be stored as fat.

How well fat will burn depends mostly how good shape your metabolism is. If your metabolism is slow when you start dieting it will only get slower and you really have to starve yourself to lose weight.

Slowly increasing carbohydrates when not loosing weight and exercise is good way to speed up your metabolism so you are able to loose that fat after you gain some.

Cardio exercises are last resort at the end of the diet when your metabolism is really slow and you want to eat something.

So while eat less than you use is good starting point to loose weight. You can make it so much easier to your self with exercise and proper food.


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