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	5 --[ Qutebrowser is amazing but..
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	8 UPDATE as of version 2.0, these are not an issue now. Time to move
	9 back to Qutebrowser!
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	12 For those preferring browsers with a minimal GUI and vim-like keyboard
	13 controls, Qutebrowser is a fantastic choice. The project can be compared
	14 to Firefox add-ons like Vim Vixen but with a smoother and more refined
	15 user interface, backed by an active creator. With that being said here
	16 comes the but.
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	19 And it's a big BUT for me, I no longer use Qutebrowser due to lack of
	20 privacy options compared to the likes of Firefox with add-ons. Does
	21 Qutebrowser have any choices at all for privacy? It sure does, BUT for
	22 the requirements of today's modern web it's just not enough to cut it.
	23 This is a list of things that you can do:
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	26 * disable javascript
	27 * disable geolocation
	28 * disable webgl
	29 * custom http headers
	30 * custom user agent
	31 * reject cookies
	32 * stop canvas reading
	33 * host based ad-blocker
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	36 Although the problem is not a poor list of choices, each of these
	37 choices has very limited scope. For example, the ad blocker is
	38 a primitive host based list from a flat file. You're going to get video
	39 ads and page elements still showing. It just doesn't compare to add-ons
	40 like uBlock Origin, where all ads traces are just erased. Setting
	41 cookies to deny all the time often contributes to a poor user
	42 experience.
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	45 As an example, I will be constantly be asked to fill in CATCHPA's for
	46 every site sitting behind CloudFlare. However, I can install a cookie
	47 cleaner on Firefox that manages cookies on a per site basis, deletes
	48 them as soon as you navigate off the site, close a tab etc.
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	51 I also discovered that Qutebrowser does not function as intended with
	52 the option to hide the referrer header. This is currently an upstream
	53 issue with the engine Qutebrowser uses, QtWebEngine. In the hopes that
	54 this gets resolved, I have opened a bug report directly with the
	55 project.
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	58 Using the EFF's browser fingerprinting tools might show you as rather
	59 unique compared to Firefox with the privacytools.io recommended addons.
	60 In order to randomise the User Agent and HTTP Accept headers, I also
	61 tried to write a Python script to do this in Qutebrowser. Although the
	62 finger printing was improved, it was just not as good as using Firefox.
	63 Once the Qutebrowser feature list has plugin support, I would definitely
	64 switch back to Qutebrowser once it has been implemented, but
	65 unfortunately Firefox and addons are the way for me.
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	68 SOURCES
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	72 >> https://qutebrowser.org
	73 >> https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen
	74 >> https://privacytools.io/browsers/#browser
	75 >> git://jay.scot/dotfiles.git
	76 >> https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30
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	79 .EOF