From fb403221441fa97caab30961d0625106fbcbabaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rutriv Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:20:29 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 01/47] webdiscover: update to newest design (probably) --- articles/webdiscover.html | 181 ++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/webdiscover.html b/articles/webdiscover.html index 62ab3dc..33e81ee 100644 --- a/articles/webdiscover.html +++ b/articles/webdiscover.html @@ -1,115 +1,68 @@ - - - - - - - WebDiscover — Spyware Watchdog - - - Webdiscover logo -

WebDiscover

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-WebDiscover is a web browser made by WebDiscover Media. -

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Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH

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-WebDiscover uses the spyware search engine Yahoo as it's default search engine, but on its website it says it uses the spyware -search engine Bing as it's default search engine. It is hard to review since every time I run it, -it messes up MITMproxy so I can't see what it's doing. The privacy policy explains that it collects a large amount of personal information from its users, so it is at least not a secret that this browser is spyware. This program acts in a very suspicious way and -the privacy policy contains a lot of language in it about the use of the information it collects that elevates it -to a uniquely bad stance on user privacy and use of user information, so I would recommend staying far away from it. -

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WebDiscover installs itself onto users computers through installer bundling

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- WebDiscover is mostly installed through other programs as an opt-out. This means that most users did not want to install this browser, and - were tricked into doing it by other software's installer programs. For example[2]: - [1] [2] [3] [4] - [5] [6] [7] [8] - [9] [10] -

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WebDiscover collects a large amount of information about its users

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-According to its privacy policy[1], WebDiscover collects the following information about its users as its browser is downloaded and used: -

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-Some of this information is typical of the kind of info that is collected by developers who write programs that phone -home using the HTTP protocol. However, WebDiscover also collects the following information about its users which is -more concerning: -

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- "We may collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data when you download the Browser. We may also collect Personal Data when you send us information or communications directly. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you including, without limitation, your name, physical address, electronic mail (email) address, phone number, and credit card information (collectively, your “Personal Data”) for the purposes of recording the transaction when you engage in activities on the Site or through use of the Browser." - [1]

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- So, WebDiscover will profile your computer, and WebDiscover Media will use every opportunity they get to collect - information about you. -

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WebDiscover sells information about its users

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- In this quote from the privacy policy: -

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- "We may share Anonymous Data with selected third parties and business partners..." -

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- Confirming that the information that WebDiscover collects about you will be sold to advertisers. -

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WebDiscover uses your personal information in a malicious way

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- WebDiscover sells your information to advertising companies that will send you junk mail separately from - WebDiscover's discretion- it also DOES NOT comply with requests to stop contact, and requires you to separately - request each company that it has sold your information to, to stop contacting you. I didn't check if they would comply - with those requests or not. The following quotes from the privacy policy should explain this: -

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- "To opt-out of having future third-party marketing communications sent to you, you will be required to unsubscribe with the applicable third party providers. Despite your request to no longer receive future newsletters or promotional and marketing communications from us, we reserve the right to continue to send you notices of any updates to the Browser, our Software End User License Agreement, and our Privacy Policy." - [1]

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- WebDiscover also claims that anyone who acts in a way that "damages the reputation" of their company will have all of the - personal information that WebDiscover has collected about them disclosed to any party at their discretion. -

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- "If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in conduct which might be considered, unlawful, fraudulent, or which might harm or damage the reputation or standing of WebDiscover Media with either the general public or with a business partner or potential business partner of WebDiscover Media, we reserve the right to release your Personal Information to such persons or third parties as we consider necessary in order to prevent you from causing injury to, or otherwise injuring or interfering, now or in the future, with WebDiscover Media' rights, property or operations or otherwise the rights, property or operations of anyone else who could be harmed by such conduct." - [1]

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- Which is basically threatening their users that they will use the information they collect to dox anyone who says bad things about their software. - This is possibly the most anti-user statement that I have read in a privacy policy. -

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Phoning Home

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When WebDiscover is started, it will begin making requests to this domain:

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ec2-54-191-159-75.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

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- This is presumably how it collects a lot of the personal information about its users. - This was discovered using Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4. -

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Sources

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- 1. - WebDiscover Privacy Policy - [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
- 2. - WebDiscover removal instructions - [archive.is]
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WebDiscover is a web browser made by WebDiscover Media.

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Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH

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WebDiscover uses the spyware search engine Yahoo as it's default search engine, but on its website it says it uses the spyware search engine Bing as it's default search engine. It is hard to review since every time I run it, it messes up MITMproxy so I can't see what it's doing. The privacy policy explains that it collects a large amount of personal information from its users, so it is at least not a secret that this browser is spyware. This program acts in a very suspicious way and the privacy policy contains a lot of language in it about the use of the information it collects that elevates it to a uniquely bad stance on user privacy and use of user information, so I would recommend staying far away from it.

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WebDiscover installs itself onto users computers through installer bundling

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WebDiscover is mostly installed through other programs as an opt-out. This means that most users did not want to install this browser, and were tricked into doing it by other software's installer programs. For example[2]: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

+

WebDiscover collects a large amount of information about its users

+

According to its privacy policy[1], WebDiscover collects the following information about its users as its browser is downloaded and used:

+ +

Some of this information is typical of the kind of info that is collected by developers who write programs that phone home using the HTTP protocol. However, WebDiscover also collects the following information about its users which is more concerning:

+

"We may collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data when you download the Browser. We may also collect Personal Data when you send us information or communications directly. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you including, without limitation, your name, physical address, electronic mail (email) address, phone number, and credit card information (collectively, your “Personal Data”) for the purposes of recording the transaction when you engage in activities on the Site or through use of the Browser."[1]

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So, WebDiscover will profile your computer, and WebDiscover Media will use every opportunity they get to collect information about you.

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WebDiscover sells information about its users

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In this quote from the privacy policy:

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"We may share Anonymous Data with selected third parties and business partners..."

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Confirming that the information that WebDiscover collects about you will be sold to advertisers.

+

WebDiscover uses your personal information in a malicious way

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WebDiscover sells your information to advertising companies that will send you junk mail separately from WebDiscover's discretion- it also DOES NOT comply with requests to stop contact, and requires you to separately request each company that it has sold your information to, to stop contacting you. I didn't check if they would comply with those requests or not. The following quotes from the privacy policy should explain this:

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"To opt-out of having future third-party marketing communications sent to you, you will be required to unsubscribe with the applicable third party providers. Despite your request to no longer receive future newsletters or promotional and marketing communications from us, we reserve the right to continue to send you notices of any updates to the Browser, our Software End User License Agreement, and our Privacy Policy."[1]

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WebDiscover also claims that anyone who acts in a way that "damages the reputation" of their company will have all of the personal information that WebDiscover has collected about them disclosed to any party at their discretion.

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"If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in conduct which might be considered, unlawful, fraudulent, or which might harm or damage the reputation or standing of WebDiscover Media with either the general public or with a business partner or potential business partner of WebDiscover Media, we reserve the right to release your Personal Information to such persons or third parties as we consider necessary in order to prevent you from causing injury to, or otherwise injuring or interfering, now or in the future, with WebDiscover Media' rights, property or operations or otherwise the rights, property or operations of anyone else who could be harmed by such conduct."[1]

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Which is basically threatening their users that they will use the information they collect to dox anyone who says bad things about their software. This is possibly the most anti-user statement that I have read in a privacy policy.

+

Phoning Home

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When WebDiscover is started, it will begin making requests to ec2-54-191-159-75.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

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This is presumably how it collects a lot of the personal information about its users. This was discovered using Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4.

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Sources

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1. + WebDiscover Privacy Policy + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is]

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2. + WebDiscover removal instructions + [archive.is]

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This article was last edited on 8/4/2018

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If you want to contribute to this website, you can always make a pull request.

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All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.

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+ From 80efe7a3469c401b885adedb79a54cfbeb4452a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anonymous Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:56:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 02/47] updated home page and misc --- index.html | 6 ++++-- misc.html | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 9b74052..92ee53b 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -20,8 +20,10 @@ The Watchdog — Spyware beware!

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The goal of this website is to classify spyware programs, so that users can be more aware that they are installing spyware.

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Many "everyday" applications are actually spyware. We take an expansive and strict stance on what constitutes spyware. We define spyware as anything that includes telemetry, phoning home, automatic updates or is listening in without user knowledge/consent.

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This website contains articles on popular programs and explaining the spyware features found in them, so that potential users can be aware of the information they may be giving away by downloading or using spyware, using easy to understand ratings, detailed explanations, and proof, of how features of these programs can spy on the user.

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Many "everyday" applications are actually spyware. We take an expansive and strict stance on what constitutes spyware. We define spyware as anything that includes telemetry, phoning home, automatic updates or is listening in without the user's knowledge or consent.

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This website contains articles on popular programs with explanations of the spyware features found in them. Included are easy to understand ratings, detailed explanations, and proof, of how features of these programs can spy on the user.

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From 856b5092d3588ef039cdf25daca0f63ddd1f9f2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baobab Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:40:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 03/47] add the cloudflare article --- cloudflare.txt | 326 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 326 insertions(+) create mode 100644 cloudflare.txt diff --git a/cloudflare.txt b/cloudflare.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3412b74 --- /dev/null +++ b/cloudflare.txt @@ -0,0 +1,326 @@ +Audience: General, people who stumble upon gnu.org + 1924+/-395 words english + 1028+/-395 words instead? + 755 words rahisibhasha + stab at french +Version: 2019-05-29 + + +######################################### + +大云墙 (Dà Yún qiáng) +大きな雲壁 (Ookina Kumo kabe) +The Great Cloudwall + +by Jeff Cliff + +essistensa una reason you go to + +######################################### + + + +There is a reason that none of your favourite work has appeared on Tor since early 2016[15]. +That reason has lead to the discovery of a threat to the operation of the World Wide Web. + +Prerequisites: +- The JavaScript Trap[47] +- Understanding that Google is not to be trusted[45][46] +- Nick Szabo: "Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes"[44][48] + +Cloudflare is a network service for turing tests its users use against visitors, which means that it frustrates attempts +by users of its users to develop software to interact with their websites[3]. +This might seem strange at first - why would you need a program to access a web resource? +But there's many things that work on the web like this, including RSS, streaming, chat, podcasts, and anti-virus definitions[57][58] which +are completely broken by a CAPTCHA appearing mid stream[11]. +"We humans don't make HTTP requests, our machines to do it for us." +This makes clear what is really being tested here - whether or not you have the right software stack in between you and +Cloudflare. + +This is not hypothetical: Cloudflare is currently attempting to dictate which browsers users of their "protected" +websites may use[60]. + +{{expand}} + +Your right to use Free Software in this stack is at risk and could disappear at any moment. + +It also is extracting free labor from website users[35], in effect tricking humans into acting like robots in order to +pass a test designed to see whether or not they are a robot. Worse, this labor is being used to train[62] Google's artificial intelligence, a very +poor candidate for "friendly AI"[36]. Given unfriendly AI is an existential[43] risk[42] to mankind, avoiding this +should be among the highest of priorities. + +This software stack includes human language: the CAPTCHAs are in English, leaving non-English speakers around the world +at a disadvantage[13]. Attempts to fix this are bound by the fact that they also leak language information to +Cloudflare[21]. + +Furthermore, they use Google's reCaptcha for their turing test/"proof you are a human" challenge and Google is known as a part of NSA's PRISM surveillance project so they expose their website visitor's data to PRISM data collection. + +On its own, this is terrible bad but it's also worth pointing out how the reCAPTCHAs work. It isn't by whether or not you +click on the correct icon (though that is a factor too) but also collect: + +> mouse movement, its slightness and straightness +> page scrolls +> time intervals between browser events +> keystrokes +> click location history tied to user fingerprint +> device information +> All these criteria are stored in the browser’s cookie and are processed by Google’s servers +> It should be emphasized that there is DARPA technology to identify people by mouse movements and typing ​ +[23] + +This collection of data is likely illegal in regions where privacy is taken seriously (like the EU)[24]. + +It is frustrating even when it works because you have to fill out 20 captchas on the off-chance that you succeed one time in +twenty. So this is 95% censorship and 5% wasting users' time[5]. + +More important, though, is that it starts to form a ratchet for web browser technology; the captchas are upgraded all the +time and if you use an older browser, you risk being left behind even when it works. + + +*How Cloudflare Threatens You* + +"When you fetch a page from a website that is served from Cloudflare, JavaScript has been injected on-the-fly into that +page by Cloudflare. And they also plant a cookie that brands your browser with a globally-unique ID. This happens even if +the website is using SSL and shows a cute little padlock in your browser" [10] + +- Cloudflare tracks you +Even if your traffic is protected from onlookers, Cloudflare itself can see your traffic[6] because they are a MITM[14][31]. +In addition, if Cloudflare[53] has intercepted your traffic(MITM), so has the NSA[33]. +"If a site uses Cloudflare, then the browser lock icon is a false promise."[14] +"The short version, a rhetorical question: Would you trust a key escrow regime, in which an “authorized” entity was +entrusted with the potential to decrypt all communications at will? If not, why would you trust a de facto mass decryption +chokepoint at which many communications are actually decrypted?"[34] +In other words, + +- They are in a position to track, tap, and link Internet activity across a wide range of sites. [14] + +- Cloudflare frustrates accessibility efforts[25][27][36]: +"CAPTCHA remains the most problematic item indicated by respondents" +Cloudflare is one of the largest, if not the largest source of unconsensual CAPTCHAS, making them quite possibly the +biggest impediment in accessibility efforts worldwide. + +- Cloudflare makes using Tor frustrating by making efforts to become anonymous more difficult and making it more likely +that people will use non-Tor connections for some or all of their web browsing. The problem is getting worse with time. +[13] + +- It's not just Tor[19] but Tor users are the biggest group of people who've noticed it and are organizing against it so +far. + +- In particular, the model of Project Honeypot depends on one IPv4 address, meaning one person. As IPv4 addresses become +scarce, more and more ISPs (and whole countries[22]) are forced to use higher and higher levels of NAT. The result is that +the kinds of treatment of Tor users by Cloudflare starts to be not just for Tor, but for all web users. "Tor is just being +slightly ahead of what the IPv4 Internet is going to look like pretty soon." +The next time a large group wakes up, millions of websites might be down (including critical ones) across a whole +continent. This has actually happened already. [49] + +"It was made clear in the Snowden leaks that GCHQ, the NSA, etc. would like people to stop using Tor so I am sure they are +very happy to see CF make general web browsing difficult and frustrating for ordinary users." [12] + +- Worse, Cloudflare makes using Tor *dangerous* because enabling JavaScript and images to deal with their system makes it +likely that some people will enable JavaScript and images on other websites, which, even if Cloudflare wasn't threatening +them, would. [9] + +- Cloudflare is capable of tracking users of its websites, and initial looks into its JavaScript/CAPTCHA seems to bear out +that they are doing so. + +- Cloudflare can target individual users with JavaScript malware; since you typically wind up enabling their JavaScript +to use websites, you fall into their trap. Because they track users, are giving, individualised code, and work directly +with the US government/DHS, there's no reason why they can't tailor attacks to specific users. + +- Even if they aren't doing it yet, they are at any point one US government administration, one vulture capital funding +purchase[26], or one internally rogue element away from executing JavaScript code on hundreds of millions of people's +computers a "highly attractive" target[7] with no oversight. The code CAPTCHA itself protects attempts to detect such +things from happening. + +- The way that Cloudflare is constructed means that even by accident, billions of people can be analyzed by their +government[51] and have their access limited or completely cut off at the government's whim. + +*Background : How Cloudflare threatens the web* + +- Cloudflare is a MITM for the whole web + +- As of 3 years ago 10% of the top 25,000 websites used Cloudflare[2] +- A billion people in china are restricted by the Great Firewall[8]. Anyone who goes so far as to circumvent that must then +deal with the "Great Cloudwall" for accessing the open internet. + +- This is not just an individual problem, but fundamentally threatens the ecosystem of the web. +Cloudflare is breaking the open internet one site at a time. The web is massively resilient - we can do without Stack +Overflow, GNU.org or even Google but when a significant enough portion of websites use a single provider, there starts to +be a systematic risk that if that single provider goes down, all of the websites behind it will be inaccessible. Worse, you +won't be allowed to access it unless you have the right kind of US government approved credential, contingent, perhaps, on +running software only they approve of. + +It is becoming a single point of failure for the internet. [39] + +Right now, there are alternative sources for, for example, the US constitution[17]. It is not unthinkable that Cloudflare +is getting big enough to threaten even that. + +{FIX ME - make section clearer} +"A.1 sometimes there are necessary websites for some degree of necessary. Government websites, public service, etc. How +long until those are behind the "Great Cloudwall"? +B: Not long. Our service is competitive and convenient. If public service websites choose to use our service for awesome +DDoS protection, it's their choice."[36] + +- Cloudflare has already started down the slippery slope[52] of censoring websites. If they didn't have a stranglehold on +people accessing the internet, it would not be a problem. They are big enough that censorship from Cloudflare is starting +to be a systematic exclusion from the political process. + +"Cloudflare is perfect: it can implement censorship on the fly without anyone getting wise to it!"[40] + +- DNS[39]: given that they have become so systematically powerful, the next step to cementing their power is to attack +DNS. Their 1.1.1.1 DNS server, like Google's 8.8.8.8, is marketed to people so that Cloudflare will still be able to see +you're going to them even if you don't interact with websites "protected" by them. It gives them even more data to track you +with. + +*Background : Where does Cloudflare come from?* + +Cloudflare comes from a project called "Project Honey Pot"[61], originally intended to track online fraud and abuse. + +"What was Project Honey Pot? +'A service that positions itself as some kind of a grassroot-y anti-spam registry, but in reality seems to be a pro- +corporate law enforcement tool with the specific aim of entrapping and prosecuting spammers/phishing scammers in a way +that’s friendly to the marketing industry.'" + +The US Department of Homeland Security approached the developers in 2007-8[1][36] for access to their data and they have +been working with the US government[54] and law enforcement ever since[1]. + +On HTTP GET requests: + +Cloudflare has a history of shutting down open DNS and open NTP servers. + +"It would be great if they allowed GET requests - for example - such requests should not and generally do not modify server +side content. They do not do this - this breaks the web in so many ways, it is incredible. Using wget with Tor on a website +hosted by CF is... a disaster. Using Tor Browser with it - much the same. These requests should be idempotent according to +spec, I believe." + +{FIX ME - "critical of it"?} +Cloudflare has a history of closing tickets that are critical of it without actually resolving the issue[29][30][32] + +"Cloudflare is based in a country with secret courts, secret police, and secret prisons that are above the law - and this +secret government has characterized Cloudflare's data as extremely valuable"[28] +"The CEO says, "Cloudflare's strength lies in the DATA it collects -- not in its CODE.'"[28] +"The U.S. federal government is a Cloudflare customer."[28] +"Cloudflare has never stated that a government agency did not install wiretapping equipment or software on the same +premises as a Cloudflare server."[28] +"Cloudflare has never indicated that the architecture of its content distribution network is resistant to warrantless +mass surveillance."[28] +"Cloudflare has given the Chinese government unprecedented censorship capability."[28] +"Cloudflare has no intention to shut down as Lavabit did in order to protect the user from unlawful surveillance."[28] +"Some Cloudflare customers are paying over 1 million dollars per year for an undisclosed service."[28] + +*"But Cloudflare is really necessary, the web is a nasty place"* + +- The more of the web is held within Cloudflare, the more pressure will be on websites not behind Cloudflare +- As of 2016, by Cloudflare's own data, Tor was not as bad as normal internet connections. +- People: "But we need Cloudflare to protect us from DDoS.” + Cloudflare: "That’s a nice site you have there. It would be a shame, such a shame, if anything happened to it. Why don’t + you let us decrypt all your TLS sessions[59] so we can protect you?"[14] + +*I heard Cloudflare is working with Tor and all is good now?* + +- Just because you can't see the problem doesn't mean it's not there. + +- This is not true. Their websites still CAPTCHA their users, same as ever, and news agencies across the political spectrum +screwed up stories about how the 'problem is fixed'. [18] + +- It's actually worse, though[17], if we couldn't see it[60] - it was easy to get a lot of riled up Tor users to understand +that Cloudflare was their adversary. It's a lot harder to convince people who are not blocked from their websites, today, +why giving systematic control over the world wide web might be a bad thing tomorrow. + +"Right now, Cloudflare says it monitors nearly 1/5 of all Internet visits. An astounding claim for a company most people +haven’t even heard of"[40] + +- But they are now doing more to track users and threaten the anonymity of Tor users. + +- Cloudflare is one of a couple of large network providers that are capturing the vast majority of digital communications, +effectively creating private networks the size of the modern internet that are competitive with and not subject to the +same kinds of scrutiny and regulation as the internet[58]. + +*What if we shut down Cloudflare and migrate all websites out of them?* + +We're probably going to have the same problem with another company very soon. Just as when suddenly Microsoft no longer had +a monopoly on software, we didn't get rid of the problem of proprietary software, there's a couple of problems that, if we +don't solve them, something like Cloudflare is roughly inevitable as a consequence: + +*Cloudflare DNS* + +"DNS[50] is around, servers are insecure, proper end-to-end crypto isn't the norm hence MITM goes unnoticed, anonymity is an edge case, routing lacks built-in resiliency to disruption, we're always going to have actors building a business model around cobbling together superficial, overapproximating mitigations."[20] + +*Mozilla and Cloudflare* + +"At least for browsing with Firefox, because Mozilla has partnered up with Cloudflare and will resolve the domain names +from the application itself via a DNS server from Cloudflare based in the United States. Cloudflare will then be able to +read everyone's DNS requests." +Sharing DNS requests with Cloudflare represents mozilla having a security hole, straight to the Cloudflare (and probably: +the NSA). + +*What can you do?* + +Learn more about Cloudflare and make sure the people around you know about Cloudflare. Use Tor by default to be more +exposed to the blocks. Go to the anti-Cloudflare collaboration repository[41] and make sure websites you use aren't +"protected", and if they are, contact the people who run the website requesting that they no longer use Cloudflare. Get +involved! + + +References + +[1] crimeflare. Is CloudFlare a honey pot? https://web.archive.org/web/20170721161127/http://www.crimeflare.us/honeypot.html +[2] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:15 +[3] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:21 +[5] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:28 +[6] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:30 +[7] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:32 +[8] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/great-firewall-of-china +[9] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:51 +[10] crimeflare. Is CloudFlare a honey pot? https://web.archive.org/web/20170721161127/http://www.crimeflare.us/honeypot.html +[11] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:59 +[12] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:66 +[13] mikeperry. The Trouble with CloudFlare. https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare +[14] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:8 +[15] Unknown. Google+ https://plus.google.com/105395547687614433866/posts/G9nnQBnLtjp +[16] Unknown. Google+ https://plus.google.com/105395547687614433866/posts/XnQryQ7hR9G +[17] msmach. Cloudflare Ends CAPTCHAs For Tor Users https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12641622&cid=57348584 +[18] msmach. Cloudflare Ends CAPTCHAs For Tor Users https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12641622&cid=57388544 +[19] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:90 +[20] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:112 +[21] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:132 +[22] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:141 +[23] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:147 +[24] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:160 +[25] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:175 +[26] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:183 +[27] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:231 +[28] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:236 +[29] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:255 +[30] gk. Cloudflare breaks loading the chat. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23141 +[31] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:20 +[32] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:44 +[33] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:52 +[34] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:60 +[35] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24321#comment:13 +[36] Anonymous. Cloudflare philosophy. https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/src/master/cloudflare-philosophy.md +[37] Peter O'Shaughnessy. Screen Reader User Survey Results #7. https://toot.cafe/@peter/99398584471715976 +[39] ungeich. A new feature in Firefox https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/ +[40] Yasha Levine. iSucker: Big Brother Internet Culture http://exiledonline.com/isucker-big-brother-internet-culture/ +[41] Anonymous. The Great Cloudwall. http://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor +[42] lesswrong wiki. Unfriendly artificial intelligence https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Unfriendly_artificial_intelligence +[43] Ben Harack. What is an existential risk? https://www.visionofearth.org/future-of-humanity/existential-risks/what-is-an-existential-risk/ +[44] Nick Szabo. Twitter http://twitter.com/nickszabo4 +[45] FSF. Google's Software is Malware https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html +[46] Richard Stallman. Reasons not to use Google https://stallman.org/google.html +[47] Richard Stallman. The JavaScript Trap https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html +[48] Nick Szabo. Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes. 2001. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties +[49] slashgeek. CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/ +[50] Hamid Sarfraz. How likely is it that CloudFlare is an NSA operation? https://www.quora.com/How-likely-is-it-that-CloudFlare-is-an-NSA-operation/answer/Hamid-Sarfraz +[51] Karthik Balakrishnan. Airtel is sniffing and censoring CloudFlare’s traffic in India and CloudFlare doesn’t even know it. https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censoring-cloudflares-traffic-in-india-and-they-don-t-even-know-it-90935f7f6d98 +[52] http://pleroma.oniichanylo2tsi4.onion/notice/1563 +[53] StopMITMInt. Add an option to stop trusting Cloudflare certificate https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/1743#issuecomment-351555735 +[54] goody2shoes. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2018-January/043889.html +[55] EFF. The Crypto Wars https://www.eff.org/document/crypto-wars +[56] http://forums.clamwin.com/viewtopic.php?t=4915 +[57] November 2018 Archives by thread http://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2018-November/thread.html +[58] https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/20181218/Documents/Geoff_Huston_Presentation.pdf +[59] Thorin-Oakenpants. let's talk about our little buddy cloudflare. https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/issues/310#issuecomment-351913412 +[60] ghost. What do you think about Cloudflare? https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/374#issuecomment-460413259 +[61] Unspam Technologies, Inc. https://projecthoneypot.org/ +[62] TechRader. Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it \ No newline at end of file From 4d1edc0eee55e4271b71a7d7662725ba06684ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baobab Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:46:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 04/47] I added a link to the offical spyware muc. --- misc.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/misc.html b/misc.html index 90074e1..c7e3ca1 100644 --- a/misc.html +++ b/misc.html @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

This page is for content on the site that doesn't belong anywhere else.

Contact

-

This website has a git repo.

+

This website has a git repo. A lot of the contributors to this site are active here on xmpp.

History

Spyware Watchdog was maintained and contributed to by The Founder of the Site between Nov 22nd, 2017 and May 10th, 2019. After which the site was put on hiatus for a while, before being handed over to Digdeeper in early 2020. It was then transferred to a git repository!

From 7645dfc0da525c04d45b7b2c4f4227268f217c34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baobab Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:47:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 05/47] I removed a dead link. --- mirrors.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mirrors.html b/mirrors.html index 23a802e..823e760 100644 --- a/mirrors.html +++ b/mirrors.html @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

I2P #1

I2P #2

-

*This mirror uses Cloudflare. If you want to learn more about it, you can go here. The repository the link provides is a work in progress aiming to be more professional-like. However, it should give you a general idea on potential issues with Cloudflare.

+

*This mirror uses Cloudflare. If you want to learn more about it, you can go here. The repository the link provides is a work in progress aiming to be more professional-like. However, it should give you a general idea on potential issues with Cloudflare.

If you want to contribute to this website, you can always make a pull request.

All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.

From 40cb782a6529017beaa37ddc821fb83b8a1a8d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:22:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 06/47] Cleanup on Bing articule additional archive sites and remove filler desc. --- articles/bing.html | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/bing.html b/articles/bing.html index 144c1f5..465cd14 100644 --- a/articles/bing.html +++ b/articles/bing.html @@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
Bing Logo

Bing

-

- This part of the article should have the name of the program and what - it does, and who develops it. -

Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH

Bing is yet another spyware search engine that collects your @@ -145,11 +141,13 @@ >[web.archive.org] [archive.li]
+ [etched.page]
+ [ghostarchive.org]

- This article was last edited on 5/30/2018 + This article was last edited on 08/17/2021

If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us From 9d653681314830f32df4063491f521fc58e85600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:24:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 07/47] Update 'articles/amd.html' fix spacing at least! --- articles/amd.html | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/amd.html b/articles/amd.html index 94bfe39..c0aaa6d 100644 --- a/articles/amd.html +++ b/articles/amd.html @@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ AMD logo

AMD CPU Family

-

- This part of the article should have the name of the program and what - it does, and who develops it. -

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops @@ -33,6 +29,7 @@ specific product, and the rating system is difficult to fit into this article.

+

Modern CPU models produced by AMD contain an embedded ARM co-processor called the Platform Security Processor (PSP). Nearly all AMD CPUs @@ -42,6 +39,7 @@ I/O. [1]

+

This article isn't complete. This is a work-in-progress and so this article is not formatted properly... @@ -50,6 +48,7 @@ http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_PlugFest_AMD_Security_and_Server_innovation_AMD_March_2013.pdf (page 11)

+

While ARM and AMD tout the “Trusted Execution Environment” as useful for secure payment, anti-theft and malware protection, they also From 069dbc668d42979f6c937fbf08a2adcbce3b2c39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:07:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 08/47] Update 'articles/brave.html' added more archive sites html cleanup --- articles/brave.html | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/brave.html b/articles/brave.html index 47b2c7c..eeadcdf 100644 --- a/articles/brave.html +++ b/articles/brave.html @@ -65,46 +65,102 @@

Sources

-

1. + +

+ 1. Brave's website - [web.archive.org]

-

2. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 2. Add a disable autoupdate feature - [web.archive.org]

-

3. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 3. Brave Rewards Program - [web.archive.org]

-

4. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 4. Plugin Information? [web.archive.org]

-

5. + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 5. Facebook, Twitter Trackers Whitelisted by Brave Browser - [web.archive.org]

-

6. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 6. Brave Browser Features - [web.archive.org]

-

7. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 7. Script Blocking Exceptions Update - [web.archive.org]

-

8. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] + +

+ +

+ 8. Brave's Analytics - [web.archive.org]

-

9. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 9. + Brave's static site - [archive.is]

-

10. + [archive.is] + [archive.org] +

+ +

+ 10. Brave's Deviations from Chromium - [web.archive.org]

-

11. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 11. Allow to opt-out of Griffin variations - [web.archive.org]

-

12. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 12. Only make requests to *.rewards.brave.com... - [web.archive.org]

+ [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+
This article was created on 5/7/2018
- This article was last edited on 6/19/2021 + This article was last edited on 8/17/2021
+

If you want to contribute to this website, you can always make a pull request.

All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.

CC0 License From bc63888cb55eecfa7e8d1169e58731181ed03086 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:09:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 09/47] whoops --- articles/brave.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/brave.html b/articles/brave.html index eeadcdf..1efc8d6 100644 --- a/articles/brave.html +++ b/articles/brave.html @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@

4. Plugin Information? - [web.archive.org]

+ [web.archive.org] [ghostarchive.org]

From 02c522fed0e4734aff71668863a408201a5f5bbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:10:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 10/47] Update 'articles/brave_ru.html' sourcers but for russian article --- articles/brave_ru.html | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/brave_ru.html b/articles/brave_ru.html index ca73a24..de60922 100644 --- a/articles/brave_ru.html +++ b/articles/brave_ru.html @@ -65,42 +65,95 @@

Источники

-

1. +

+ 1. Brave's website - [web.archive.org]

-

2. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 2. Add a disable autoupdate feature - [web.archive.org]

-

3. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 3. Brave Rewards Program - [web.archive.org]

-

4. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 4. Plugin Information? - [web.archive.org]

-

5. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 5. Facebook, Twitter Trackers Whitelisted by Brave Browser - [web.archive.org]

-

6. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 6. Brave Browser Features - [web.archive.org]

-

7. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 7. Script Blocking Exceptions Update - [web.archive.org]

-

8. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] + +

+ +

+ 8. Brave's Analytics - [web.archive.org]

-

9. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 9. + Brave's static site - [archive.is]

-

10. + [archive.is] + [archive.org] +

+ +

+ 10. Brave's Deviations from Chromium - [web.archive.org]

-

11. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 11. Allow to opt-out of Griffin variations - [web.archive.org]

-

12. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

+ +

+ 12. Only make requests to *.rewards.brave.com... - [web.archive.org]

+ [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

Этот перевод был создан 13/07/2021
Этот перевод в последний раз изменялся 13/07/2021 From f290f4cddbed6acb71f62948ce253ff86bec0fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:20:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 11/47] Update 'articles/ccleaner.html' The two archive.is links at the end pointed to the same thing, while the one in the bottom was supposed to point to the privacy policy Fixed with adding the right archive.is link. Also added explanation of screenshot. --- articles/ccleaner.html | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/ccleaner.html b/articles/ccleaner.html index 188a649..5dd3a9f 100644 --- a/articles/ccleaner.html +++ b/articles/ccleaner.html @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

CCleaner clearly shows in its privacy settings that it is collecting information about your computer and selling that information to - advertisers: + advertisers. Below is a screenshot on how to mitigate some of it.

[web.archive.org] + >[web.archive.org] + [archive.is]
  • [web.archive.org] - [archive.is] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
  • [web.archive.org] - [archive.is] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    • From f6659eb7f77a7ee52a437b951afeb2165e3e3b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:22:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 12/47] Update 'articles/cdex.html' --- articles/cdex.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/cdex.html b/articles/cdex.html index 3f9b326..32f4e9e 100644 --- a/articles/cdex.html +++ b/articles/cdex.html @@ -58,12 +58,12 @@
  • WebDiscover Privacy Policy [web.archive.org] - [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    • - This article was last edited on 7/29/2018 + This article was last edited on 08/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us From 5fc7c97ad65c4d79ce16a1b990fccccdb3bd305e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:54:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 13/47] Update 'articles/chrome.html' fixed spacing --- articles/chrome.html | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/chrome.html b/articles/chrome.html index 8a5a268..522fce6 100644 --- a/articles/chrome.html +++ b/articles/chrome.html @@ -111,23 +111,51 @@

    Further Reading:

      - Reasons not to use Google [web.archive.org] [archive.is] - Welcome to the Botnet. Or, The Case Against Google Chrome [web.archive.org] [archive.is] + Reasons not to use Google + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] +
      +
      + Welcome to the Botnet. Or, The Case Against Google Chrome + [web.archive.org] [archive.is]

    Sources:

      -
    1. Google Chrome Privacy Notice [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
      2. -
    2. Google Payments Privacy Notice [web.archive.org] -
    3. Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed? [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
      4. -
    4. Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
      5. -
    5. Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”) [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
      6. +
    6. + Google Chrome Privacy Notice + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      7. +
    7. + Google Payments Privacy Notice + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    8. + Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed? + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      9. +
    9. + Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      10. +
    10. + Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”) + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    - This article was last edited on 12/12/2018 + This article was last edited on 08/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg.

    All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.

    CC0 License From 70f285aec1b0cd74087e285ce366376ed08a08be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:55:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 14/47] Update 'articles/chrome_es.html' --- articles/chrome_es.html | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/chrome_es.html b/articles/chrome_es.html index 79a2cda..5a8ccde 100644 --- a/articles/chrome_es.html +++ b/articles/chrome_es.html @@ -69,31 +69,40 @@

    Referencias

    -

    - 1. - Google Chrome Privacy Notice - [archive.is] - [web.archive.org]
    - 2. - Google Payments Privacy Notice - [web.archive.org]
    - 3. - Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed? - [web.archive.org] - [archive.li]
    - 4. - Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns - [web.archive.org] - [archive.li]
    - 5. - Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”) - [web.archive.org] - [archive.li]
    -

    +
      +
    1. + Google Chrome Privacy Notice + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      2. +
    2. + Google Payments Privacy Notice + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    3. + Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed? + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      4. +
    4. + Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      5. +
    5. + Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”) + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      6. +

    - This article was created on 11/23/2018
    + This article was created on 08/17/2021
    This is a translation of the english article. It may become outdated- compare the dates on both articles.

    From 1a344f32dbbc236f2fc25b70d7d5afcc45de8222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:01:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 15/47] Update 'articles/chrome_pl.html' --- articles/chrome_pl.html | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/chrome_pl.html b/articles/chrome_pl.html index 7ba6e90..78dd061 100644 --- a/articles/chrome_pl.html +++ b/articles/chrome_pl.html @@ -119,12 +119,35 @@

    Sources:

    -
      -
    1. Google Chrome Privacy Notice [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
      2. -
    2. Google Payments Privacy Notice [web.archive.org] -
    3. Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed? [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
      4. -
    4. Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
      5. -
    5. Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”) [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
      6. +
        +
      1. + Google Chrome Privacy Notice + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
        2. +
      2. + Google Payments Privacy Notice + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      3. + Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed? + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
        4. +
      4. + Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
        5. +
      5. + Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”) + [web.archive.org] + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    From 8e92c32ca3f9dbb8dbc931620a836ca7ceb87a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:37:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 16/47] Update 'articles/discord.html' hooktube is dead, people can pick their posion (mpv, gst-play, invidious, piped, cadencetube, etc.) --- articles/discord.html | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/discord.html b/articles/discord.html index 05dd982..b64c8a8 100644 --- a/articles/discord.html +++ b/articles/discord.html @@ -193,7 +193,8 @@

    Discord will lock users out of its service and will not allow them to continue using it without giving their phone number or contacting - Discord support. This kind of feature is designed to extract very + Discord support. This is especially true for TOR users. + This kind of feature is designed to extract very personal information out of its users (phone numbers). The criteria for locking out users isn't known. [archive.is][ghostarchive.org]

  • @@ -359,6 +393,10 @@ href="http://archive.is/20170724163442/https://discordapp.com/company" >[archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
  • [archive.is] + [removeddit.com] [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]
  • Number of registered Discord users [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]
  • [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]
    • This article was created on 11/23/17
    - This article was last edited on 4/24/2021 + This article was last edited on 8/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us From fc891486549752044c5e7d2952c7875e5087e4f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:44:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 17/47] Update 'articles/duckduckgo.html' --- articles/duckduckgo.html | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/duckduckgo.html b/articles/duckduckgo.html index c6200d3..0c82efe 100644 --- a/articles/duckduckgo.html +++ b/articles/duckduckgo.html @@ -56,19 +56,30 @@ DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy [www.webcitation.org] [arquivo.pt] - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] + +
    2. Still trust DuckDuckGo? (dead link) [archive.is] - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] + +
    3. - DuckDuckGo: The mistaken belief of the NSA-safe search engine*
    + DuckDuckGo: The mistaken belief of the NSA-safe search engine* + + +
    4. - Site Improvements - [web.archive.org]
    + Site Improvements + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] + +

    *This is a machine-translated mirror of an article written in German hosted here. Links to the original article can be found on that page. @@ -76,7 +87,7 @@ DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck

    - This article was last edited on 9/16/2018 + This article was last edited on 8/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. From 7586db0be509aa03c27747e4b86632107d2561f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:45:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 18/47] convert to xhtml4 --- articles/duckduckgo.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/duckduckgo.html b/articles/duckduckgo.html index 0c82efe..faa6f52 100644 --- a/articles/duckduckgo.html +++ b/articles/duckduckgo.html @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ - + + From f1de80b5d5cc5b94c402f8b18e393ebe00b1f604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:46:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 19/47] whoops --- articles/duckduckgo.html | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/duckduckgo.html b/articles/duckduckgo.html index faa6f52..acd43a2 100644 --- a/articles/duckduckgo.html +++ b/articles/duckduckgo.html @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ - From dc37132a7726597916e8291194729ad6a31017d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:49:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 20/47] Update 'articles/discord_es.html' --- articles/discord_es.html | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/discord_es.html b/articles/discord_es.html index 8e3ed5c..383b459 100644 --- a/articles/discord_es.html +++ b/articles/discord_es.html @@ -97,37 +97,132 @@ por si el link muere. [web.archive.org]

    Referencias

    -

    - 1. - Discord Privacy Policy - [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    - - 2. - Why is Discord recording our open programs and uploading them? - [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    - - 3. - Discord - [wayback.archive-it.org] - [archive.is]
    - - 4. - Crunchbase - [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    - - 5. - Discord Nitro - [archive.is]
    - - 6. - Discord receives government requests. No plans on adding E2E Encryption any time soon. - [archive.is] - [web.archive.org]
    -

    - +
      +
    1. + Discord Privacy Policy + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      2. +
    2. + Why is Discord recording our open programs and uploading + them? + [removeddit.com] + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      3. +
    3. + Discord + [wayback.archive-it.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      4. +
    4. + Crunchbase + [web.archive.org] + + [ghostarchive.org] +
      5. +
    5. + Discord Nitro + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      6. +
    6. + Discord receives government requests. No plans on adding E2E + Encryption any time soon. + [archive.is] + [removeddit.com] + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      7. +
    7. + Number of registered Discord users + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      8. +
    8. + Data Privacy Controls + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      9. +

    This article was created on 11/18/2018
    From c61f801a1bc6e496c9ee2f8f921fec24b835cca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:53:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 21/47] Update 'articles/dissenter.html' --- articles/dissenter.html | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/dissenter.html b/articles/dissenter.html index 6cd8aac..ea022bd 100644 --- a/articles/dissenter.html +++ b/articles/dissenter.html @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Brave for autoupdates and safebrowsing, which is hosted by Brave. The default se The browser has two extensions preinstalled. One extension, "Shields", blocks certain advertisement scripts. The other, "Dissenter" allows you to access the Dissenter social network. This extension phones home to several places whenever you open it, including Google and Twitter. The Dissenter social network also inherently must collect more information about the user's browsing -habits than the current alternatives that already exist. +habits than the current alternatives that already exist. It also doesn't help that their privacy policy is basically empty.

    Phoning home

    @@ -89,12 +89,14 @@ Every once in a while, the Browser will send a request to Brave's instance of th

    1. Dissenter Privacy Policy - [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    + [web.archive.org] + [archive.fo] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    - This article was last edited on 5/24/2019 + This article was last edited on 8/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. From 8c8c5f1843b5902658aa4f675babac253ea81b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:56:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 22/47] Update 'articles/example.html' --- articles/example.html | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/example.html b/articles/example.html index bcba759..e150cb5 100644 --- a/articles/example.html +++ b/articles/example.html @@ -46,14 +46,16 @@

    Sources:

    1. - Source1 - [web.archive.org] + Source1 + [web.archive.org] [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    2. - Source2 - [web.archive.org] + Source2 + [web.archive.org] [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    From fa3de399c7e8bf22ec19329f6d9f5f61b64bb647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:59:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 23/47] Update 'articles/explorer.html' --- articles/explorer.html | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/explorer.html b/articles/explorer.html index 3868404..78cee01 100644 --- a/articles/explorer.html +++ b/articles/explorer.html @@ -47,11 +47,14 @@
  • Internet Explorer 10 privacy statement [webarchive.loc.gov] [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    • + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] + +
    - This article was last edited on 2/18/2019 + This article was last edited on 08/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg.

    All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.

    From 7f21a9da73d82a6515f061ee22a5e67ce0f5914d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:27:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 24/47] Update 'articles/firefox.html' --- articles/firefox.html | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/firefox.html b/articles/firefox.html index ed39270..a8ec404 100644 --- a/articles/firefox.html +++ b/articles/firefox.html @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ The best takeaway to this is that Mozilla wants to pretend that including spywar Share data with Mozilla to help improve Firefox [web.archive.org] [archive.fo] + [ghostarchive.org]

    Whitelisting trackers

    @@ -185,21 +186,32 @@ they should be set too: network.captive-portal-service.enabled False Turn off captive portal - [archive.is] + [archive.li] + [web.archive.org] + + Self-Repair browser.selfsupport.url "" How can I stop firefox from constantly connecting to self-repair.mozillia.org - [archive.is] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] + + Pocket pocket.enabled False Disable Pocket in Firefox - [archive.is] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] + + + +

    @@ -225,47 +237,63 @@ they should be set too: Google Analytics is used to track users [web.archive.org] [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] [via.hypothes.is]
    2. FAQ for FHR [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] [archive.li]
    3. Pocket Privacy Policy [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    4. Snippets Service Data Collection [web.archive.org] - [archive.li]
    + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    5. Metrics we collect [web.archive.org] - [archive.li]
    + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    6. Turn off captive portal - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    7. How can I stop firefox from constantly connecting to self-repair.mozillia.org - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    8. Disable Pocket in Firefox - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    9. List of whitelisted trackers - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    - This article was last edited on 5/25/2020 + This article was last edited on 08/17/2021

    This article was created on 11/23/2017 From 6862ba79cd6bc5bfba0d3803c9a158296fc98e65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:29:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 25/47] Update 'articles/vlc.html' --- articles/vlc.html | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/vlc.html b/articles/vlc.html index a75cb66..e85b1c4 100644 --- a/articles/vlc.html +++ b/articles/vlc.html @@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ VLC Media player searches through online databases to find complete album covers 1. Companies bundling spyware, adware with open-source media player [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    From f4432790865bacf70e1d017c5cdd11b25a6101b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:33:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 26/47] Update 'articles/webdiscover.html' --- articles/webdiscover.html | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/webdiscover.html b/articles/webdiscover.html index 33e81ee..faae7e9 100644 --- a/articles/webdiscover.html +++ b/articles/webdiscover.html @@ -52,10 +52,13 @@

    1. WebDiscover Privacy Policy [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]

    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]

    2. WebDiscover removal instructions - [archive.is]

    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    This article was last edited on 8/4/2018

    From 03893bbb3eec3bf3c22b47ccd7417fed4ca3e62e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:42:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 27/47] Update 'articles/ksp.html' --- articles/ksp.html | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/ksp.html b/articles/ksp.html index abec6a8..e2eb1fe 100644 --- a/articles/ksp.html +++ b/articles/ksp.html @@ -156,22 +156,23 @@ TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, Inc. PRIVACY POLICY [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
    - +[ghostarchive.org] 2. Does KSP v1.4 really have spyware in it? [web.archive.org]
    - +[ghostarchive.org] 3. [PSA] RED SHELL Spyware — "Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!" integrated and removed it after complaints -[snew.github.io] +[removeddit] [archive.is] +[ghostarchive.org]

    - This article was last updated on 5/30/2018 + This article was last updated on 8/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. From bb18e625c0a272e8edace75ac70702e917d6aaa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:59:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 28/47] Update 'articles/youtube.html' --- articles/youtube.html | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/youtube.html b/articles/youtube.html index 2374d1b..4e9e95e 100644 --- a/articles/youtube.html +++ b/articles/youtube.html @@ -49,38 +49,55 @@ The YouTube app for android additionally uses the Google Firebase Analytics trac

    1. Google Privacy policy - [archive.li]
    + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    2. Request to Investigate Google’s YouTube Online Service... - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] +
    3. Stop YouTube tracking when signed out [web.archive.org] - [archive.fo]
    + [archive.fo] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    4. Youtube Android App Permissions - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    5. com.google.firebase.analytics [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    6. @swack on Twitter - [archive.fo]
    + [archive.fo] + [ghostarchive.org]
    7. FreeTube Releases [web.archive.org] [via.hypothes.is] - [archive.is]
    + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    8. Does Youtube track our Mac address?? - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    9. How does YouTube know what I've been watching? - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    10. Does the FSF use YouTube? - [web.archive.org]
    + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    From 93be8c45481c6f3f5a994c6bf797d3d7bf2bc8d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:11:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 29/47] Update 'articles/netsurf.html' --- articles/netsurf.html | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/netsurf.html b/articles/netsurf.html index 0f30e09..29f6497 100644 --- a/articles/netsurf.html +++ b/articles/netsurf.html @@ -26,7 +26,12 @@

    Sources

      - 1.www.netsurf-browser.org/ [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
      + 1.www.netsurf-browser.org/ + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] + +
    From a5c460531ec70026cd973014d36d0aa3752b9f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:17:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 30/47] Update 'articles/tor.html' --- articles/tor.html | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/tor.html b/articles/tor.html index 31e114c..03f2f03 100644 --- a/articles/tor.html +++ b/articles/tor.html @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ this over the Tor network... so while it's definitely "phoning home", it's doing [swap.stanford.edu] [arquivo.pt] [archive.is] - [wayback.vefsafn.is]
    + [wayback.vefsafn.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    From 3df8945dadd04d92909e5ff6d6eed6b5990f2d3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:27:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 31/47] Update 'articles/telegram.html' --- articles/telegram.html | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/telegram.html b/articles/telegram.html index 053f547..16cd3a3 100644 --- a/articles/telegram.html +++ b/articles/telegram.html @@ -31,8 +31,19 @@

    Sources

    -

    1.Telegram Privacy Policy [web.archive.org]

    -

    2.Where are the sources of the latest releases? [web.archive.org]

    +

    1. + Telegram Privacy Policy + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    +

    + 2. + Where are the sources of the latest releases? + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    This article was created on 2/18/2019

    This article was lasted edited on 10/11/2020

    From 45d3c77f6fb19621f4bbd5e37e9de138356a862d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:45:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 32/47] Update 'articles/http.html' --- articles/http.html | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/http.html b/articles/http.html index 7338087..9f34751 100644 --- a/articles/http.html +++ b/articles/http.html @@ -30,8 +30,18 @@

    Sources

    -

    1.Section 14 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification [web.archive.org]

    -

    2.Section 15 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification [web.archive.org]

    +

    + 1. + Section 14 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    +

    + 2. + Section 15 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    This article was created on 5/14/2018

    This article was lasted edited on 10/11/2020

    From 2f3235d7e97117935a690b05c40e424186a46a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:47:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 33/47] Update 'articles/google.html' --- articles/google.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/articles/google.html b/articles/google.html index bad2d99..c912dae 100644 --- a/articles/google.html +++ b/articles/google.html @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ services when concerning user privacy.

    Google Privacy policy [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]/a> [wayback.vefsafn.is] [archive.li]

    From 4307199911529070d94068df8ed8ff91bc2a6a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:56:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 34/47] Update 'articles/instagram.html' --- articles/instagram.html | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/articles/instagram.html b/articles/instagram.html index 48b4224..2682c88 100644 --- a/articles/instagram.html +++ b/articles/instagram.html @@ -60,13 +60,16 @@ Whenever a user takes a picture on a modern smartphone, GPS Coordinates are stor Make Use Of — Ways Instagram Is Spying on You [archive.is] [archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]
    2 Instagram's TOS + [archive.org] [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    @@ -74,12 +77,16 @@ Whenever a user takes a picture on a modern smartphone, GPS Coordinates are stor 3 HelloGiggles Article on the New DM feature [archive.is] + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]
    4 Instagram Listens In [archive.is] + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org]

    From 700c00d67cdf8fec6ff974aab04221fd8196e9de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:58:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 35/47] Update 'articles/yahoo.html' --- articles/yahoo.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/articles/yahoo.html b/articles/yahoo.html index b0ac975..55f96f7 100644 --- a/articles/yahoo.html +++ b/articles/yahoo.html @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ is integrated into the "Yahoo Account" spyware platform, which shares all of the

    1. Welcome to the Oath Privacy Center + [ghostarchive.org] [web.archive.org] [archive.is]

    From 5ccef2bb67e419f1afc935dd602e2c28d92b0d96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:59:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 36/47] Update 'articles/palemoon.html' --- articles/palemoon.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/articles/palemoon.html b/articles/palemoon.html index fcae76d..df2e912 100644 --- a/articles/palemoon.html +++ b/articles/palemoon.html @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ NoScript will cause display issues and functional issues." This Add-on to your browser has been blocked or disabled. [web.archive.org] [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]

    From 38e74b3b815052467e8c720b8ddbd31b53753a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:02:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 37/47] Update 'articles/opera.html' --- articles/opera.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/opera.html b/articles/opera.html index da3e3c7..9bbb4f0 100644 --- a/articles/opera.html +++ b/articles/opera.html @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@

    Opera is closed source

    And it will stay that way. From their FAQ (the message used to be there in 2017, they must have deleted it somewhere in 2018):

    -

    Opera has no current plans to open source its browser.

    +

    Opera has not officialy open sourced its browser. However, leaks of the Presto web engine Opera used have appeared on the internet.

    -

    Therefore, some other spyware might be hiding in there.

    +

    Even with that however, there could still other spyware might be hiding in there.

    Credits

    From 625764ca9c41415b9ad425ad9f2b22b836e81c9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:02:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 38/47] Update 'articles/netsurf_pl.html' --- articles/netsurf_pl.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/netsurf_pl.html b/articles/netsurf_pl.html index e01e5ae..18a8180 100644 --- a/articles/netsurf_pl.html +++ b/articles/netsurf_pl.html @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@

    Źródła

      - 1.www.netsurf-browser.org/ [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
      + 1.www.netsurf-browser.org/ [web.archive.org] [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
    From c546b533c1057d9cdaee3356d224de4230feab86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:03:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 39/47] Update 'articles/utorrent.html' --- articles/utorrent.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/articles/utorrent.html b/articles/utorrent.html index a040cb9..354044f 100644 --- a/articles/utorrent.html +++ b/articles/utorrent.html @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@

    uTorrent

    +

    Not finished (obviously)

    Back to catalog

    uTorrent logo

    From 9135face5e476514e72c4bcecb3ad7fbc5bbf8ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:05:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 40/47] Update 'articles/ungoogled_chromium.html' --- articles/ungoogled_chromium.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html b/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html index 7b542c3..69a57f9 100644 --- a/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html +++ b/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ looking for a Chrome-based browser to switch too without taking the time to comp Ungoogled-Chromium [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
    +

    From 918293b406bc404308f54aa2dabfe5e9e087c262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:07:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 41/47] Update 'articles/surf.html' --- articles/surf.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/surf.html b/articles/surf.html index 90e1be6..420821c 100644 --- a/articles/surf.html +++ b/articles/surf.html @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@

    Sources

      - 1.surf.suckless.org [web.archive.org]
      + 1.surf.suckless.org + [ghostarchive.org] [web.archive.org]
    From dab8fed67bfd85940ed3f180f047338d2d84c55a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:10:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 42/47] Update 'articles/waterfox_classic.html' --- articles/waterfox_classic.html | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/articles/waterfox_classic.html b/articles/waterfox_classic.html index c9f06ad..1eec67a 100644 --- a/articles/waterfox_classic.html +++ b/articles/waterfox_classic.html @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Self updates are a spyware feature since they are usually ways for the developer of a program to put spyware into their software without presenting it in a prominent way where the user can understand what they are giving up when they download the update.

    +

    Other known spywares, like Chromium, make use of this method

    @@ -79,16 +80,19 @@
    1. What happened to Waterfox's devotion to user privacy? + [removeddit.com] [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
    2. Waterfox and Ecosia — Privacy Concerns + [removeddit.com] [web.archive.org] [archive.is]
    3. Access Mozilla Services with Firefox Account + [web.archive.org] [archive.li]
    4. From a551b0edb6e2182a4b8b8e91e667a4b5d57d9abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:14:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 43/47] Update 'articles/iron.html' --- articles/iron.html | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/iron.html b/articles/iron.html index 8a6a74d..cd6d823 100644 --- a/articles/iron.html +++ b/articles/iron.html @@ -169,11 +169,15 @@
    5. SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future — Frequently asked questions [web.archive.org] - [archive.is]
      + [archive.is] +
    6. The story of Iron - [web.archive.org]
      + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      +
    From b16d3b52edde788f7328daa5712a9ccb017c6932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:16:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 44/47] Update 'articles/google_search.html' --- articles/google_search.html | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/google_search.html b/articles/google_search.html index 1723e87..c1b3ed4 100644 --- a/articles/google_search.html +++ b/articles/google_search.html @@ -87,10 +87,14 @@ your information, so it is really not trying to be very detailed because it woul Google Privacy policy [web.archive.org] [wayback.vefsafn.is] - [archive.li]
    + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +
    2. Google collect information - [archive.li]
    + [archive.li] + [ghostarchive.org] +

    From f4577c711141bf3d92753afc6a15a46792e66874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:23:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 45/47] xhtml1 for real updating article to xhtml isn't as simple as header change ;) --- articles/duckduckgo.html | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/duckduckgo.html b/articles/duckduckgo.html index acd43a2..8fc2173 100644 --- a/articles/duckduckgo.html +++ b/articles/duckduckgo.html @@ -2,27 +2,32 @@ - - + + DuckDuckGo — Spyware Watchdog - DuckDuckGo logo +

    + DuckDuckGo logo +

    DuckDuckGo

    - [Español]

    + [Español]

    DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck Go, Inc.

    -

    Spyware Level: Possible Spyware

    +

    Spyware Level: Possible Spyware

    DuckDuckGo is a search engine that claims to protect the privacy of its users.[1] Since this a centralized service, there is no way to prove that it isn't spyware just by looking at the technology that it uses. There are some red flags that could cause you to doubt that this service is truly private, and so this article will just list them here to help you decide on whether or not to use this service. Ultimately there isn't proof that DuckDuckGo is spyware- but a few reasons to suspect it of being spyware. Even though, it's worth noting that - DuckDuckGo offers an onion domain... so you don't need to trust it to use it as long as you access it through TOR. + DuckDuckGo offers an onion domain... so you don't need to trust it to use it as long as you access it through TOR.

    DuckDuckGo is hosted in the USA

    @@ -39,17 +44,17 @@ DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck DuckDuckGo uses clear gifs from the domain improving.duckduckgo.com. This is a tracking technique and can be used to collect analytics about your web browser. Whenever you use DuckDuckGo, several requests will be sent to this domain.[4] This is of course not the kind of behavior that you would expect from a privacy concerned website, but there it is. Do you trust DuckDuckGo to collect "anonymous" analytics about you?

    -
    +

    Further Reading

    /tech/ FAQs — DuckDuckGo [web.archive.org] [archive.is] - [www.webcitation.org]
    + [www.webcitation.org]

    -
    +

    Sources

    1. @@ -59,40 +64,40 @@ DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck [archive.is] [ghostarchive.org] -
    +
    2. Still trust DuckDuckGo? (dead link) [archive.is] [web.archive.org] -
    +
    3. DuckDuckGo: The mistaken belief of the NSA-safe search engine* -
    +
    4. Site Improvements [web.archive.org] [ghostarchive.org] -
    +

    *This is a machine-translated mirror of an article written in German hosted here. Links to the original article can be found on that page.

    -
    +

    This article was last edited on 8/17/2021

    If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.

    - CC0 License + CC0 License

    Back to catalog

    From 90042880251e6d316afc0343f6d1922c419310ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:36:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 46/47] tiktok wip --- articles/tiktok.html | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+) create mode 100644 articles/tiktok.html diff --git a/articles/tiktok.html b/articles/tiktok.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae8f5ce --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/tiktok.html @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + Tiktok — Spyware Watchdog + + + +
    +
    ← Catalog
    +
    + Images are in the ../images folder +

    Tiktok

    +

    Work in progress

    +

    + Tiktok is a social media app allowing people to post short form videos, usually from a couple seconds + to up to 3 minutes long in length. +

    +

    + Like Discord, TikTok is spyware because all data goes through a central server, and multidues of data on you and your device are collected, sometimes even without your consent. +

    +

    + Tiktok collects mass amounts of data +

    +

    + Tiktok explicitly confirms in its privacy policy[1] + that it collects/can access the following information: +

    +
      +
    • Age of user
      • +
    • ID cards (if submitted)
      • +
    • Device UUID
      • +
    • User's e-mail address
      • +
    • Content from your clipboard
      • +
    • All images and videos stored on your phone
      • + +
    +

    It also collects data from outside companies ("advertising partners") from third parties without your consent.

    +

    + Tiktok shares this data with companies in the business of spyware. +

    +
    +
    +
    +
    +

    Further Reading:

    +
      +
    1. Source + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is]
      2. +
    +
    +
    +
    +

    Sources:

    +
      +
    1. + Source1 + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      2. +
    2. + Source2 + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
      3. +
    +
    +
    + This article was created on mm/dd/yyyy
    + This article was last edited on mm/dd/yyyy + +

    + If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us + at the git repo on + Codeberg. +

    +

    + All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be + accepted. +

    + + CC0 License + + +
    +
    + + From 06ca3405baaa12e19e4a8ca90ef56efb3007fa86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmquickie Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:43:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 47/47] take off items already been done --- requested_articles.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/requested_articles.txt b/requested_articles.txt index 9b673a6..dfc1de5 100644 --- a/requested_articles.txt +++ b/requested_articles.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Ublock Origin — No progress (phoning home? check privacy policy) > browser: https://sphere.tenebris.cc Did Iron and Sphere -Didn't do Seamonkey yet.... + Write about the Bromite Android Browser @@ -89,4 +89,4 @@ No progress has been made yet. Write an article about Facebook. Write an article about TikTok. -Write an article about Web Browser. +