Google AMP Can Go To Hell

Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default approach to building webpages. Tell them no.

https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/


#amp #web

Google is working on “Portals” to revamp browsing mobile websites

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-portals-revamp-browsing-mobile-websites/

#portals #amp #web

Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking

https://www.wired.com/story/mobile-websites-can-tap-into-your-phones-sensors-without-asking

https://sensor-js.xyz

#sensors #web

https://betanews.com/2018/09/29/tim-berners-lee-solid/

#web #solid

Why *Not* Google AMP?

https://medium.com/@uistephen/why-not-google-amp-cf1aeb974463


#amp #web

A clean start for the web

The web is in need of some reinvention right now.

The web’s evolution over the last decade has mirrored the American economy. All of the essential indicators are going “up and to the right,” a steady stream of fundamental advances reassure use that there “is progress,” but the actual experience and effects for individuals stagnates or regresses.

The crisis affects platforms, creators, and consumers alike.

I’m going to try and dissect and diagnose this situation, a bit. You can skip forward if you just want to read my casual, unprofessional pitch for a reboot of the web. The idea is that we could choose a new lightweight markdown format to replace HTML & CSS, split the web into documents and applications, and find performance, accessibility, and fun again.
This post uses the pedantic definition of "the web"
I've discussed attempts to reinvent the "Internet" a few times. Things like dat, IPFS, and arweave are all projects to reinvent an Internet, or a transport and data-sharing layer. The web is what lies on top of that, the HTML, CSS, URLs, JavaScript, browsing experience.
The platform collapse

The platform side is what changed last week, when Mozilla laid off 250 employees and indicated that it would affect Firefox development. Firefox wasn’t the #2 browser - that’s Safari, mainly because of the captive audience of iPhone and iPad users. But it was the most popular browser that people chose to use.

👀 👉🏼 https://macwright.com/2020/08/22/clean-starts-for-the-web.html

#reset #clean #web #internet #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag

Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it

Web Bundles is a new proposed standard by Google designed to change the Web fundamentally. The main idea behind the technology is that sites may bundle a full webpage into a single file.

Currently, when you open a webpage in any browser, content, e.g. images or scripts, gets loaded individually. The web browser parses the source of the webpage and loads the content based on the references that it finds in the code.

Google notes on the Web Bundles announcement page on its Web Dev website:

A Web Bundle is a file format for encapsulating one or more HTTP resources in a single file. It can include one or more HTML files, JavaScript files, images, or stylesheets.

Web Bundles are part of the company's Web Packaging proposal that also include Signed HTTP Exchanges and Loading. The technology offers several unique features and benefits according to Google that include that they load "near instantly when served locally", "enables executable JavaScript", or easier sharing of resources.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/30/google-proposed-web-bundles-could-threaten-the-web-as-we-know-it/

#Google #web #bundles

Mull

This is a privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Firefox. It enables many features upstreamed by the Tor uplift project using preferences from the arkenfox-user.js project. It is compiled from source and proprietary blobs are removed using scripts by Relan.

Source code : https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

Project website: https://divestos.org

F-Droid repo:
https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/?fingerprint=E4BE8D6ABFA4D9D4FEEF03CDDA7FF62A73FD64B75566F6DD4E5E577550BE8467


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#mull #web #browser #ff #firefox #fennec

Web Security and Web Hacking for Beginners

Welcome to the course on “Web Security and Web Hacking for Beginners”. This course is designed for beginners who wants to start their journey in web security and web hacking.

👉🏼 Part 1 (Introduction - 4 videos)
👉🏼 Part 2 (Deeper understanding of Web Security - 2 videos)
👉🏼 Part 3 (Various attacks on Web Security - 9 videos)
👉🏼 Part 4 (Conclusion - 1 video)

💡Each video comes with additional (English) subtitles

This course is basically designed by taking into account that you don’t have idea about web security and you want to learn basic concept and then directly jump into action. Concepts like URL, HTTP, HTTPs etc. are explained to make student comfortable with the concept that we are going to use and then jump directly to action content like SQL injection, XSS, DDoS, etc. We want to make sure that you learn basics at the same time you don’t miss action while learning basics.

#video #tutorial #web #security #hacking #beginners #part1#part2 #part3 #part4
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag

Against Modern Browsers – https://againstmodernbrowsers.neocities.org/

Web browsers were originally designed with one purpose: reading HTML documents. The web was simple and was not owned by large corporations (most notably Google). Overtime the web has evolved and became bloated and complex. All modern browsers are either forked from #Chromium or funded by Google, giving #Google complete control over the web. An independent browser developed by a small community cannot compete with #Chrome or #Firefox.

This website covers everything wrong with the modern web, everything wrong with modern web browsers, and what should have been done to prevent this..

#Browsers #Webpages #navigateur #web

DuckDuckGo has a crawler called DuckDuckBot. This crawler doesn’t impact the linked results displayed; it just grabs favicons and scrapes data for a few instant answers. DuckDuckGo’s help pages claim that the engine uses over 400 sources; my interpretation is that at least 398 sources don’t impact organic results. I don’t think DuckDuckGo is transparent enough about the fact that their organic results are proxied. Compare DuckDuckGo side-by-side with Bing and Yandex and you’ll see it’s sourcing organic results from one of them (probably Bing).

From here : https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html#fnref:4

#DuckDuckGo #SearchEngine #web #scrapingWeb #Bot #WebCrawler

Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves. No more searches where some of the terms in the query arent used, and the engine tries to guess what you really meant. You get what you search for.

https://stract.com

https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

#Web #Search #SearchEngine
#FLOSS

Cobalt

A media downloader website that doesn't piss you off. it's fast, friendly, and doesn't have any bullshit that modern web is filled with: no ads, trackers, or invasive analytics.
paste the link, get the file, move on. it's that simple. just how it should be. You can host your own instance

• bilibili.com & bilibili.tv
• dailymotion videos
• instagram reels, posts & stories
• ok video
• pinterest videos & stories
• reddit videos & gifs
• rutube videos
• soundcloud
• streamable.com
• tiktok videos, photos & audio
• tumblr video & audio
• twitch clips
• twitter videos & voice
• vimeo
• vine archive
• vk video & clips
• youtube videos, shorts & music
cobalt is not affiliated with any services listed above.
this list is not final and keeps expanding over time, make sure to check it once in a while!

https://cobalt.tools

https://github.com/wukko/cobalt

https://status.cobalt.tools

https://github.com/wukko/cobalt/blob/current/docs/troubleshooting.md

Review:
This thing recodes sound to MP3 by default (more lossy distortion on top of whichever lossy codec like AAC the original video uses) which is a very bad idea. Also it processes files and gives its own server links even if the file is something like a YT video that can be downloaded off the original Google servers (with no transcoding whatsoever specified in settings).
And it's all lowercase

#web #video #downloader #yt

#Android #web #browsers

Ungoogled Chromium (forked from cromite) with Bromite patches and additional codecs
https://github.com/macchrome/droidchrome/releases
https://chromium.woolyss.com/#android

Cromite is another example of ungoogled chromium without the extra codecs from the above link, but cromite includes more patches as noted at github.
https://github.com/uazo/cromite
Fdroid repo
https://www.cromite.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=49f37e74dee483dca2b991334fb5a0200787430d0b5f9a783dd5f13695e9517b

For an Android Firefox based browser, use IronFox
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases
Fdroid repo
https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=c5e291b5a571f9c8cd9a9799c2c94e02ec9703948893f2ca756d67b94204f904

These can be added to Obtainium to download the latest release when they are available
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

@NoGoolag #browser #alternatives with mitigations, patches etc.
Alpha version release March 6, 2025

FireFox browser options
- Tor Browser (all)
- Mullvad Browser (Desktop)
- IronFox (Android) Read the Known Issues section on the gitlab.
- LibreWolf (mentally ill devs)

Make your own #Firefox with mitigations etc...
- Phoenix / wiki
- Arkenfox user.js / wiki / gui / user-tool / mobile
- Narsil / Narsil Mobile
- Betterfox / Betterfox Mobile
- pyllyukko
- Compare some of the user.js files

Chromium based browser Options
- Ungoogled Chromium (all)
- Cromite (Android, Linux, Windows)

Browser extensions
- uBlacklist
- uBlock Origin or uMatrix (never both)
- LibRedirect (setup your instances for each service in the settings)

Links to block lists...
- Yokoffing
- Celenity/Phoenix
- FilterLists

Set your default search engine to a search proxy
- 4get instances
- Searx instances

Why your favorite browser is not recommended
- Celenity Firefox browser comparisons
- How to choose a browser for everyday use?
- is your browser spyware?
- Choose your browser carefully
- Browsers and the connections they make compared
- Fake Privacy and security

Additional reading...
- Wiki about extensions
- Multiple Extension Conflicts
- uMatrix for beginners
- Firefox user.js install guide
- Arch Linux Firefox Privacy wiki
- Bromite (for knowledge purposes)

Testing your browser
- Fingerprint.com
- How to test browsers for spyware
- Privacytests browser comparison
- Mullvad check
- Bromite fingerprint testing
- IP Leak
- List of test sites A
- List of test sites B


* Thunderbird users should consider taking a look at Dove - Phoenix's sister project.

#web #browsers

This is a list of the connections each #web #browser makes on a fresh install and first use. The obvious big tech culprits are sending your information to data brokers by default. Not everything that is connecting is a threat to privacy but can be. If you are choosing a browser for daily usage be mindful of what it is doing that you can't stop.

https://archive.is/gtqyt

@BonesTechGarage

Design your clothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1pMV3UDf3w

#diy #clothes #web