Update privacy measures

.config/qutebrowser/config.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config.load_autoconfig()
 
+# Colors
 
 c.colors.webpage.bg = "black"
 c.colors.completion.category.bg = "#111111"
@@ -7,27 +8,57 @@ c.colors.completion.even.bg = "black"
 c.colors.statusbar.private.bg = "black"
 c.colors.hints.bg = "black"
 c.colors.hints.fg = "white"
-c.hints.border = "1px dotted white"
-c.hints.radius = 10
-c.hints.chars = "asdf"
 c.colors.tabs.bar.bg = "black"
 c.colors.webpage.darkmode.algorithm = "lightness-hsl"
 c.colors.webpage.darkmode.contrast = 1.0
 c.colors.webpage.darkmode.enabled = True
-c.content.javascript.enabled = False
-c.content.cookies.accept = "never"
-c.content.cookies.store = False
-c.content.headers.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0"
-c.content.headers.accept_language = "en-US,en;q=0.5"
-c.content.headers.custom = {"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"}
-c.content.canvas_reading = False
-c.content.webgl = False
-c.scrolling.smooth = True
-c.url.default_page = "https://search.disroot.org/"
-c.url.searchengines = {"DEFAULT":"https://search.disroot.org/search?q={}"}
-c.url.start_pages = "https://search.disroot.org/"
 c.window.transparent = True
-c.content.private_browsing = True
+
+# General settings
+
+c.scrolling.smooth = True
+c.url.default_page = "about:blank"
+c.url.start_pages = "about:blank"
+c.url.searchengines = {"DEFAULT":"https://search.disroot.org/search?q={}"}
+
+# Bar settings
+
 c.tabs.max_width = 100
 c.tabs.position = "bottom"
 c.statusbar.show = "in-mode"
+
+# Hints
+
+c.hints.border = "1px dotted white"
+c.hints.radius = 10
+c.hints.chars = "asdf"
+
+# Privacy settings
+
+# Disable history
+c.content.private_browsing = True
+
+# Enabling JavaScript will probably make your fingerprint completely unique.
+# If you really need it, enable it on a per-site basis with the tsh and tSh
+# binds which will turn on JavaScript temporarily or permanently.
+c.content.javascript.enabled = False
+
+# Tor Browser accepts cookies to make your fingerprint less unique, which I've replicated here.
+# They have a "New identity" button that clears cookies. For qutebrowser,
+# you'll have to restart the browser to clear them or do it manually.
+# If you want to change this to completely rejecting cookies, set this to "never".
+c.content.cookies.accept = "no-3rdparty"
+c.content.cookies.store = False
+
+# Less unique headers compared to the defaults
+c.content.headers.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:91.0) Gecko/91.0 Firefox/91.0"
+c.content.headers.accept_language = "en-US,en;q=0.5"
+c.content.headers.custom = {"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"}
+# Sending a Do Not Track header makes your fingerprint more unique according to Panopticlick,
+# and I don't trust sites to respect it, so I think it's better to not include it at all.
+# (True: send DNT, False: Send DNT header set to 0, None: Don't send DNT)
+c.content.headers.do_not_track = None;
+
+# Block certain trackers
+c.content.canvas_reading = False
+c.content.webgl = False

README.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Then install the AUR programs in programs-aur using your preferred method. If yo
 
 You should install [my dwm](https://github.com/dogeystamp/dwm), [dmenu](https://github.com/dogeystamp/dmenu), [slock](https://github.com/dogeystamp/slock) and [st](https://github.com/dogeystamp/st) builds as well as this for a complete desktop environment.
 
-### Note
+### Notes
 
 The xinitrc provides changes I like, such as swapping escape and caps lock, which you should remove if you don't need.
 
@@ -22,5 +22,7 @@ Also, by default, the wallpaper is solid black. You can change it by swapping ou
 Picom is already configured to blur and fade windows.
 If you wish to keep the black wallpaper, disable blur for better performance.
 
+My qutebrowser configuration emphasizes privacy over usability, and you might need to edit it to suit your needs if you want to use it.
+
 **Desktop Preview**
 ![preview](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DogeyStamp/dots/main/preview.png)