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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
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<title>Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<h1>GNU IceCat</h1>
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<p><a href="/articles">Back to catalog</a><br>
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<a href="/articles/icecat_es.html">Spanish Translation</a></p>
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<img src="/images/icecat_logo.png" alt="icecat Logo">
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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=lime>Not Spyware</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. IceCat 60 makes <font color=lime><b>no unsolicited connections</b></font> 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>
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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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<li>LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.</li>
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<li>Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.</li>
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<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>
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<li>Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characterisics 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>
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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">
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GNUzilla - News: IceCat 60.2.0 Pre-release</a>
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<p><b>
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This article was last edited on 9/18/2018
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If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), email me at <a href="mailto:spyware@aaathats3as.com">spyware@aaathats3as.com</a>. All contributions must be liscenced under the CC0 liscence to be accepted.
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