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2024 Security and Privacy Canary
BACKDOORS During 2024, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. During 2024, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. PRIVACY During 2024, Stoutner received 0 secret requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to…
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Privacy Browser Android 3.19
Privacy Browser Android 3.19 was released on 31 December 2024. Users can now choose to sort bookmarks alphabetically, with folders before bookmarks. When doing so, manually adjusting the sort order is disabled. When not sorting bookmarks alphabetically, there are now options to move a bookmark to the top or the bottom, instead of just the…
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Privacy Browser PC on Debian Stable Backports
Privacy Browser PC 0.7 was recently released, with packages being uploaded to Debian unstable and testing. Debian testing is also known as trixie, and will be the next Debian stable release, expected to land in the first half of 2025. Up until this point I have been backporting Privacy Browser PC releases to bookworm-backports (bookworm…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.7
Privacy Browser PC 0.7 was released on 11 December 2024. The major feature of this release is that Privacy Browser PC has been rebased on KDE 6 and Qt 6. Qt 5 was in EOL (End of Life) maintenance mode, meaning that from a feature perspective Qt WebEngine was based on Chromium 87.0.4280.144. The Qt…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6.2
Privacy Browser 0.6.2 was released on 30 September 2024. The impetus for this release was an attempt to fix a bug in the packages in the official Ubuntu repository, which appear to be caused by a mismatch in PIE (position-independent executable) and PIC (position-independent code) compiler flags. This problem didn’t affect packages in the official…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6.1
Privacy Browser PC 0.6.1 was released on 21 August 2024 to fix a couple of bugs with the new features in 0.6. On devices with small screens (or large fonts) the domain settings dialog now has so many entries it could be pushed off the bottom of the screen. The fix was to encase the…
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Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1
Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 was released on 22 July 2024. It contains a single fix for a problem with the items in the Navigation Drawer not always displaying if they are disabled. This was a problem with Google’s Android Material library version 1.12.0, which shipped with 3.18. The solution was to update to version 1.13.0-alpha04…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6
Privacy Browser PC 0.6 was released on 15 July 2024. In terms of features, this is the biggest release since 0.1. The headline feature is the addition of filter lists. Just like with Privacy Browser Android, these are based on the AdBlock Plus syntax and utilize EasyList, but the filter list parser was written from…
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The Referer Header
The referer header is an optional header that informs the website you are visiting of the URL of the previous website (assuming you clicked a link to get to the current site instead of typing the URL into the address bar). It has no good reason to exist, but those who want to track you…
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Privacy Browser Android 3.18
Privacy Browser Android 3.18 was released on 27 May 2024. Initially I was planning to wait for the implementation of fine grained cookie management for the 3.18 release, but a user discovered a bug that caused the file picker to not be able to select desired files on some websites. Being able to upload files…