Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

• hn-search

  1,638 525 2.9 TypeScript

  Hacker News Search

  

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=privacy+sandbox

It's been discussed to death so many times already.

• topics

  30 568 8.1 Bikeshed

  The Topics API

  

Delete Chrome.

“The intent of the Topics API is to provide callers (including third-party ad-tech or advertising providers on the page that run script) with coarse-grained advertising topics that the page visitor might currently be interested in.”

https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics#the-api-an...

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• user.js

  682 9,160 6.8 JavaScript

  Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening

  

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

• privacytests.org

  411 760 9.4 HTML

  Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.

  

Vivaldi is closed source, even worse than Chrome in privacy features: https://privacytests.org

Brave is objectively the best mainstream privacy browser.

• yt-dlp

  2,361 71,576 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself.

¹ https://mpv.io

² https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

³ https://www.alfredapp.com

• mpv

  830 26,129 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself.

¹ https://mpv.io

² https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

³ https://www.alfredapp.com

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