<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> <title>GNU IceCat — Spyware Watchdog</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css"/> </head> <body> <div class="case"> <div class="nav"><a href="index.html">← Catalog</a></div> <div class="main"> <img src="../images/icecat_logo.png" alt="icecat Logo"/> <h1>GNU IceCat</h1> <p>GNU IceCat is a web browser that is a fork of <a href="../articles/firefox.html">Firefox</a>.</p> <h2>Spyware Level: <span class="lime">Not Spyware</span></h2> <p>GNU IceCat is a fork of Firefox that is more private and secure than Firefox and it contains several privacy-protecting features. IceCat 60 makes <span class="lime"><b>no unsolicited connections</b></span> when you run it. Previous versions had privacy problems, but version 60 doesn't have these problems. You can read about the previous version here: <a href="../articles/icecat59.html">IceCat 59 Review</a></p> <h3>IceCat's privacy features</h3> <p>From <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">gnu.org</a>:</p> <ul> <li>LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.</li> <li>Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.</li> <li>AboutIceCat: Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites.</li> <li>Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characteristics of that particular instance (like what fonts are available in that machine). Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of being tracked this way, so the browser has to avoid giving away that kind of hints.</li> </ul> <p>As of writing this the information on gnu.org is a little outdated. Read this for the most up to date look at it: <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9240">GNUzilla — News: IceCat 60.2.0 Pre-release</a></p> </div> <hr/> <div class="footer"> <b>This article was last edited on 9/18/2018</b> <p>If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>.</p> <p>All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.</p> <a href="../LICENSE.txt"><img class="icon" src="../images/cc0.png" alt="CC0 License"/></a> </div> </div> </body> </html>