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Programs that respect your privacy

Author: Soren Stoutner

  • Privacy Browser Will Never Monetize the Default Search Engine

    This morning I received the following email. Hi Soren, I hope all is well. I’m Chris – CMO at Startpage and I came across your Privacy Browser as I was looking into F-Droid. I saw Startpage on the screenshots on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standardI assume you’re a fan and wanted to reach out to hear what you think…

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  • Liberapay Account

    F-Droid turned me on to Liberapay, which is similar to Patreon, but with a focus on open source principles. As such, it is right up my alley. I have created a Liberapay account and listed it on the Donations page.

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  • New WordPress 2020 Theme

    The theme for the website has been updated from WordPress Twenty Nineteen to Twenty Twenty. Overall I like the effect. The only downside I have seen so far is that the menu doesn’t work if JavaScript is disabled. Someday, if I have some free time, I might contribute to the WordPress project to fix that.…

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  • Mastodon Account

    A while back a user suggested I setup a Mastodon account for Privacy Browser, but at the time I didn’t feel that I needed anything in addition to all the existing communication platforms I was using. But, as is typically the case, over time my perceptions have changed, and I thought it would be nice…

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  • Privacy Browser 3.4.1

    Privacy Browser 3.4.1 has been released. It contains an emergency fix for some Android 10 devices that couldn’t access the public directories even when the storage permission was granted. This caused java.io.IOException:Permission denied errors when the storage permission was granted and the default download location was used on these devices.

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  • DNS over HTTPS

    I received an email asking about implementing DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in Privacy Browser. As this is a fairly complex topic, and as there are likely to be other people with the same question, I thought it best to answer with this blog post. First, a little background about the problem. When DNS (the Domain…

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  • 2019 Financial Report

    Revenue Google Play: $335.27 Amazon: $136.63 PayPal: $71.68 Patreon: $29.61 Total Revenue: $573.19 Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Amazon revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on the Amazon Appstore. PayPal revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on XDA Labs and also from donations. Google AdMob ad…

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  • Privacy Browser 3.3

    Privacy Browser 3.3 has been released. This release took a lot longer than I expected due to a sudden increase in the business of my day job combined with the time constraints of having another child. There was a major reworking of the way Privacy Browser handles proxies. The underlying code was switched from using…

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  • 2019 Security and Privacy Canary

    Backdoors During 2019, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser. During 2019, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser. Privacy During 2019, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to weaken the privacy of Privacy Browser. During 2019, Stoutner has made 0 changes to weaken the privacy…

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  • Privacy Browser 3.2

    Privacy Browser 3.2 has been released. The default search engine and homepage have been changed to Startpage. This is a big enough change that I have written a separate post explaining it. Recent changes in WebView broke proxying though Orbot, which is now fixed. However, this only fixes HPPTS proxying. HTTP proxying is still broken…

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