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Category: Privacy Browser PC

  • 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 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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  • 2023 Financial Report

    REVENUE Total Revenue: $2,178.62 This compares favorably with last year’s total of $1,365.86. Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. PayPal comes from Liberapay, sales on Samsung’s Galaxy App Store, and from direct donations. Patreon revenue comes from Patreon donations. Merch Store revenue comes from the Merch Store. Amazon revenue comes…

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  • 2023 Security and Privacy Canary

    BACKDOORS During 2023, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. During 2023, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. PRIVACY During 2023, Stoutner received 0 secret requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to…

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  • Privacy Browser and Password Managers

    From time to time I become involved in conversations regarding the integration of Privacy Browser with password managers. The purpose of this post is to place all of my thoughts on this subject in one place, as well as to explain why I consider it insecure to integrate a password manager into a web browser.…

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  • Privacy Browser PC 0.5

    Privacy Browser PC 0.5 was released on 12 October 2023. The major feature of this release is the addition of bookmarks. There is an edit bookmarks dialog. An optional bookmarks toolbar can be displayed. With a fresh install of Privacy Browser PC 0.5, the bookmarks toolbar will be displayed below the URL toolbar by default.…

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  • Privacy Browser PC 0.4

    Privacy Browser PC 0.4 was released on 13 June 2023. A setting was added to enable or disable spatial navigation, which is the ability to navigate between links and input fields using the arrow keys. There is some discussion about this feature on Fosstodon. Given that some people find this feature annoying, I decided to…

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  • Privacy Browser PC 0.3

    Privacy Browser PC 0.3 was released on 8 May 2023. The changelog is now included in the Handbook. The current domain settings icon is now displayed on Gnome and Xfce. Changes were made so that Privacy Browser PC will build on Guix. This lays the groundwork to run Privacy Browser in a container, which is…

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  • Privacy Browser PC 0.2

    Privacy Browser PC 0.2 was released on 17 April 2023. Work was done on this release to make sure Privacy Browser works well on GNOME. A crash was fixed that caused a segfault when downloading files on GNOME with local storage disabled. There are currently two file download mechanisms used by Privacy Browser. For downloads…

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