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This repository was archived by the owner on Nov 15, 2017. It is now read-only.
This repository was archived by the owner on Nov 15, 2017. It is now read-only.

CDN problem and possible Firefox port? #420

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A visit to the shopping sites (where the action is, according to the analytics sickos)
nowadays demonstrates that almost no product of any kind can be searched for or
compared without invoking CDN scripts. The CDN market has several big syndicates -
let's take Amazon and its CDN subsidiary Cloudfront as an example, which appear
on many commercial sites nowadays:
Privacy for Cloudfront is regulated by Amazon's privacy policy, which in turn happily
admits that they do fingerprinting.

Alternatives in this situation:

  • don't search for products online
  • get fingerprinted, let insurances and HR providers know what you are doing online
  • use Tor browser bundle with NoScript, which is already impressively hardened against fingerprinting

Since NoScript is not a very convincing concept (first allow scripts, then forbid one by one, etc.),
and making Chromium as fingerprint-resisting as the Tor-Firefox fork is really a lot of work,
I'd kindly ask:

How much work would it be to port httpswitchboard to Firefox? Could it be done with a
reasonable community effort?

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