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dialhome-study/browser-network-insights: they have played us for absolute fools (codeberg.org)

submitted 4 days ago by ken@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Set up a framework to fully man-in-the-middle my own browsers' networking and see what they're up to beyond just looking at their DNS queries and encrypted tcp packets. We force the browser to trust our mitmproxy cacert so we can peek inside cleartext traffic and made it conveniently reproducible and extensible.

It has containers for official Firefox, its Debian version, and some other FF derivatives that market a focus on privacy or security. Might add a few more of those or do the chromium family later - if you read the thing and want more then please let us know what you want to see under the lens in a future update!

Tests were run against a basic protocol for each of them and results are aggregated at the end of the post.

Posting with ambition that this can trigger some follow-ups sharing derived or similar things. Maybe someone could make a viral blog post by doing some deeper tests and making their results digestible ;)

Cross-post. Original Thread @ https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/53845514

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[–] machiavellian@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'd really love to see some Blink based browser comparisons, especially Trivalent (which is supposed to be compareble to Vanadium).

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, thanks for reminding me of Trivalent, I realize now I've come across it before but totally slipped my mind. If/when testing for chromium in place I think this can be interesting to sample next.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And also Dillo and Netsurf.

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What are you curious about with Dillo And Netsurf? Isn't it safe to assume at this point they will both be 0 across the board for all the queries in the report?

I think we need a different testing protocol for them to be interesting to include. AFAIK they don't have add-ons that could be interesting to test either? Do you have any suggestion for step(s) you think could be added to the test in order to make those meaningful to include? Or is my assumption about Dillo and Netsurf out of date?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No, you're right, it would be pointless. Although Netsurf has a bit of JS support now.