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Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characterisics of that particular instance (like what fonts are available in that machine).
#Gnu icecat browser software#
AboutIceCat: Adds a custom “about:icecat” homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites.SpyBlock: Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode.Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman’s article The JavaScript Trap.Also their trademark license restricts distribution in several ways incompatible. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. Also their trademark license imposes requirements for the distribution of modified versions that make it inconvenient to exercise freedom 3. IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend nonfree software as plug-ins and addons. GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser.