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<title>Outdated GNU IceCat — Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<h1>GNU IceCat (v59)</h1>
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<h3><font color=red>Note: This article is outdated. <a href="../articles/icecat.html">Here</a> is the updated version. </font></h3>
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GNU IceCat is a web browser that is a fork of <a href="../articles/firefox.html">Firefox</a>.
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<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=greenyellow>Low</font></h2>
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GNU IceCat is a fork of Firefox that is more private and secure than Firefox and it contains several privacy-protecting features. However, it still contains a lot of the spyware features found in Firefox. So, while it's better than Firefox, it still has a lot of problems that Firefox has.
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<h3>Phoning Home</h3>
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Even though IceCat has better privacy features out of the box than Firefox, it still phones home by default to GNU, Mozilla, and Google.
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So, while it claims to respect your privacy, it doesn't take steps to stop spyware features like this.
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<img class="screenshot" src="../images/icecat_phones_home.png" alt="Icecat phoning home">
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<h3>IceCat's privacy features</h3>
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From <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">gnu.org</a>
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<p>LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.</p>
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<p>Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.</p>
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<p>SpyBlock: Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Sources</h2>
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<a name="1">1.</a>
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<a href="https://digdeeper.neocities.org/">Dig Deeper</a>
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<a href="../images/icecat.png">[original image link]</a><br>
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<p><b>
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This article was last edited on 6/21/2018
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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>. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
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