User Controls
Well, well, well. What do we have here.
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2021-10-28 at 3:47 PM UTCI was in my fortress of solitude surrounded by the pale light of a dozen monitors doing the things that make me the most happy. Such as, scheming, plotting, writing code and doing some research, when i decided to pull on some of the threads that make up the Vibrant Tapestry of Chromium. I have Chromium and Geckodriver and similar stuff for browser automation and testing purposes.
Anyway i ran some commands and that's when i saw it...
Turns out Chromium has some unindexed enhancementing rules, what that precisely means in technical terms i couldn't tell you. I don't build browsers for a living, best i can do for you is an addon, but my my guess is that it has something to do with content enhancementing. All browsers do that to a degree, what often is the case is that thee is an internal blacklist that has a ton of malicious domains in it, so that when you type in: Googre.com instead of Google.com your computer doesn't immediately explode from the sheer volume of malware contained within it.
Makes sense right? You can't trust the unwashed masses to know and avoid malicious sites all on their own now can you? Preposterous. And so it appeared to be with Chromium.
Blocking some pornhub knockoffs and derpweb mirrors, pretty standard fair. But then i came around to this.
Whole ass unindexed enhancementing rules for fake pornhub but only some safety tips for these? Don't tell anyone guys but i think the team behind Chromium are a bunch of nonces. -
2021-10-28 at 3:59 PM UTCI trust your assessment. As they say, it takes one to know one. :)
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2021-10-28 at 11:04 PM UTCwhy are they hardcoded locally
usually that gay 'safesearch' or whatever each browser calls it sends each URL to their online srbl to see if it's a 'malign' site -
2021-10-28 at 11:24 PM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingness
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2021-10-28 at 11:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by lockedin privacy activists made a stir over the sending of each url to a remote server since it could be used for fingerprinting, so they (chrome and fagfox at least) recently switched to downloading the whole list periodically and doing the enhancementing locally
that's even more risky though, just turn it off and don't be a retard -
2021-10-28 at 11:29 PM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingness
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2021-10-28 at 11:55 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra why are they hardcoded locally
usually that gay 'safesearch' or whatever each browser calls it sends each URL to their online srbl to see if it's a 'malign' site
Fuck if i know. Also i don't like it when a browser contacts some remote host to do whatever. If i were trying to spy on the world i'd figure out how to build a browser top to bottom and i'd pretend to send url's to my online srbl's and log the IP, date and time plus URl in question. I'd have a gigantic database of compromat in no time u reckon, i'd also just send the saved credentials for auto login, most people use the same passwords for everything. An IP is a good starting off point for processing for further intel anyway. -
2021-10-28 at 11:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by lockedin privacy activists made a stir over the sending of each url to a remote server since it could be used for fingerprinting, so they (chrome and fagfox at least) recently switched to downloading the whole list periodically and doing the enhancementing locally
Well there you go.
