That girl was hot, would bang.

Such anger, much wow.

Oh look, another drugfag who's here to talk about boring, recycled syntheses and chat with his fellow addicts about how high one can get if one plugs (x)µg of (insert generic organic molecule here). Yawn.

And so the lockdown begins. I think it's pretty lulzy that the utter incompetence of a majority of Zoklet's staff pissed someone off to the extent that they're now trying to destroy this site in the most risky and illegal manner possible.

I highly recommend Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.

That's an anecdote. If you don't want to use chrome for that reason that's fine but you'll have to forgive me if a third hand account of a tcp dump I haven't seen fails to convince me.

Fair enough. Personally, I'm of the opinion that one can never trust a browser offered by an organization that depends so heavily on data collection for its business model. It can be argued that this is partially or wholly blind intuition, but I'm rather privacy conscious and Google has given us plenty of reasons to question their ethics.

NoScript: You can disable JS in the browser config pages, there's also https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmnaadbkfbmpbfijlflahbdbdgdf/details?hl=en for more granular control
Cookie Controller: Devtools let's you manipulate cookies, but if you want something more clickable there's: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vanilla-cookie-manager/gieohaicffldbmiilohhggbidhephnjj?hl=en
FoxyProxy: Proxy SwitchySharp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchysharp/dpplabbmogkhghncfbfdeeokoefdjegm?hl=en

Tried all of these, couldn't get any of them to work as well as their FF counterparts. NoScript in particular is a fantastic extension that seems to have no equal under any other browser.

JonDoFox: Never heard of this before, it's just a set of configs? Last I checked firefox, just like chrome, had actual config menus where you can choose settings so I'm not seeing the point.

It's shipped as a profile that includes configs and several extensions.

https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondofox.html

chrome://flags/

I'll check this out.

CS people are kind of biased towards Mozilla for historical reasons (including the relative browser positions in the open source space). Again, I think firefox is great and I'm glad it exists but I think Chrome, at this point in time, offers a better user and developer experience.

I appreciate your input. You've convinced me to install Chromium on this system and have another go at hardening it for my purposes.

And again, any security benefit that comes from FF being open source is lost as soon as you download that binary, so I don't think the privacy claim is really well founded when telling people which browser they sould use unless you're ready to recommend that everyone read and compile their own browser from source.

Depending on the distro I'm using, I either compile from source or the package maintainers do. If they can't be trusted, well, surveillance code in the browser is pretty low on my hierarchy of concerns.

If you're running it on Windows or OSX then your browser choice doesn't matter; you're being surveilled anyway.