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Privacy Browser PC 0.8
Privacy Browser PC 0.8 was released on 30 January 2025. From the beginning, there have been problems when changing the user agent. Doing so would cause the current page to reload, interrupting the loading of the new URL. I have finally implemented a solution to this that works around Qt WebEngine’s buggy behavior. Basically, the…
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2024 Financial Report
REVENUE Total Revenue: $1,771.73 Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. Crypto currency is a combination of Bitcoin and Monero donations. Patreon revenue comes from Patreon donations. Amazon revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on the Amazon AppStore. I have a small amount of PayPal donations, which I forgot…
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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 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 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…