The grandest obstacle to making anonymous web browsing possible in QubesOS

@plankretriever

The problem is mouse movement fingerprinting.

There are multiple other problems too, e.g. Cloudflare, time correlation.

FWIW, some time ago I made quBO which practically turns Tor Browser into a text browser as a default setting which one can control further. I will probably have to update it, although the last time I tested it worked fine in 4.3 too.

@unman

It is simply not true that All internet requires JS. If this is a
concern for you do not use the sites that do require it.

That means one should not use:

Nor is is true that all browsing requires mouse movements. Use a text
based browser, with or without JS, and leave the mouse alone.

I miss the computers from the 80s too but unfortunately AI bots attack even privacy websites which put JS-walls at an increasing rate too.

Proxy your browsing through a VNC connection. […] Qubes makes it very easy to do this.

Sounds interesting. Got a guide for this?

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