I’ve actually tested doing addons to the browser and keeping permanence, and I found it good for my use cases and my specific add-ons (add-ons that do not access DOM). Most major sites don’t have the tech to actually fingerprint it that way. Yes, it does harm the potential fingerprinting, but if you are careful and make it so that private browsing mode basically resets it to default, you can turn it on when you need to. The biggest issue is turning cookies on imo.

Of course, only do this if you know what you’re doing, know your requirements, and know the ins and outs of how fingerprinting on particular sites work. Its perfectly reasonable to main mullvad browser with its baseline setup.

Yeah Mull is a different project. Mullvad browser is better than Mull (now Ironfox) tho lol.

Confiscation of the domain isn’t a big deal. As I’ve already said, there are many anonymous hosting providers than have been tested on the Israel issue and came out the other side. 1984 is one, BDS served them an injunction in court in Iceland and 1984 was successful in fighting it and also avoiding divulging any info about activists.

If you wanted to it’s also possible to proxy server traffic so that the main server is never divulged which makes it very easy to swap domain names and providers. I consider this overkill for this use case though, would be necessary on a streaming site or something, though that should be hosted in Russia to avoid issues anyways, Russia essentially allows for the piracy of non Russian data.

Hostile takeover? Not if you don’t share credentials. The passwords and so on should be random and encrypted.

I’d argue every small social site should run on the principal that they will be prosecuted like an illegal streaming site. You can divest yourself of liability and doxing with basic opsec.

An example: host on 1984.hosting and pay with mined or donated Monero. Only access the site through a computer specifically for that purpose, and only with Tor / Tor Browser and a Linux distro such as Qubes, Tails, or less suspiciously, Fedora Atomic. Memorize credentials if possible, if not encrypt them on drive with a strong password via a keepassxc databases. If you are hosting the site properly, you can transfer the site podman/docker container and url with databases and info intact with no effort. Make sure the computer for managing site management stuff wipes itself on every shutdown sans credential info, has secureboot, and an encrypted drive. As an admin account, only access the site through base Mullvad Browser with a VPN (ideally Mullvad) or Tor Browser on a computer of your choosing.

You can easily say the site is no longer yours and your payment information will reflect this. This has been done before.

Yeah it’s not really suitable as a daily driver. Mullvad is imo

Mullvad browser and Tor browser are the only serious options for privacy on the internet. Librewolf, cromite, Firefox, brave, etc will get you fingerprinted. If you care about security more than privacy, use a chromium based browser. Personally, I use Mullvad browser with Vpn (use only protonvpn, mullvad, or ivpn, they have had security and legal tests) it’s the best combo of fast and private.

For mobile, the options are more limited. Ironfox, Cromite, and Vanadium (GrapheneOs) are the best bets for daily use. Tor Browser is the only one that actually stops fingerprinting however, but it is difficult to recommend it as a daily driver, it’s more of a tool.

Source: I actually help code security software and test it in real world scenarios regularly

+1 to op for posting the solution godspeed 🫡

Unforced error really, there’s a lot of secure hosting providers that take anonymous payments. Could easily say you transferred domain control to someone else to avoid liability when the law passed. They’re doing this because they have no convictions and are lazy at best, at worst they support Israel.

What I’m doing is illegal in my jurisdiction, ICE showed up for a reason. The law can eat my ass

I’m a communist trans woman with guns who helps house refugees for free in the USA. I’ve had ICE show up to my doorstep before.

It really depends on the game. Old games often run better on Linux than on windows. Check protondb to see how supported the game is, may be a driver issue. Old Nvidia parts use proprietary drivers which suck in comparison to old AMD parts which use open source drivers on Linux. New Nvidia parts use open source drivers, though these drivers are new and still having the kinks worked out. Sometimes laptops even have specific proprietary drivers that must be used for the laptop which can break compatibility with Linux or reduce performance. I’m pretty sure Intel is in the same boat, it’s proprietary.

Personally, for games I enjoy, I saw a small 5fps performance increase over windows on a newish desktop.

Genuine freak shit. Maybe wait until the government bothers you, don’t preempt them

Adding that what they said above is correct. I personally hop between secureblue and bazzite depending if I want to game that day. Works great

I also have it on an old laptop which atomic is great for leaving unupdated for a long time and updating it without config when you need it

What? You’re acting like Fedora is like Apple or Microsoft lmao

I don’t really consider brave to be in the running due to the advertising they have built into the browser

The biggest issue I’ve had is tweaks causing instability over time. I also have had some issues where I was updating a debian install that hadn’t been updated in 3 years and it broke and would require tweaking to fix (why do this when I can just load a new immutable install and fix it for good?). I have enough computers laying around that I’d really rather it work when I want to as a sure thing. So far my testing with immutable distros has been stellar, I’ll let everyone know if my ostree tweaks and updates don’t load in 3 years, lol.

I think this is a big enough problem that even the Fedora team considered it an issue and therefore pushed out Fedora Atomic.

It uses more, yeah. But it’s not a lot more. You could maybe compare the iso sizes

Oooh, didn’t know about that. Very exciting

I have a build like this for tinkering but to say it is slow and inefficient is an understatement. Very secure though. I can’t really see daily driving it.