![]() ![]() To be fair Brave Browser is also set up with Google as its default search provider, but at least they announced their own search engine in March 2021. After all, I believe most users use Google because they don’t know any better alternatives, like for example DuckDuckGo. It is also about providing users with alternative solutions that actually avoid tracking overall. It is not so much about protecting the users from tracking. Does this mean it is safe to use Google in Firefox? Maybe, but I assume that Google can track users either way because of how fingerprinting works. So why is Goole set as the default browser?ĮTP is also set to “standard” as default. ![]() The default search engine for Firefox version 95.0.2įirefox claims to stop companies like Google from tracking you with its Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP). LibreWolf and Tor have solved this problem by using DuckDuckGo instead. Especially when you consider the fact that Google search is considered one of the worst when it comes to privacy. Here are a few observations on why I think Firefox is losing the game.įor a company that claims to care about privacy and is a contender to Google Chrome, it is a little strange that Google Search is set as the default search engine. But after using Brave for a while I decided to try out Firefox again to see if anything had improved since the last time I tried it. At least this was the final straw in my case.īeing a long-time Google Chrome user, initially, I decided to switch to Brave browser after becoming a bit more privacy-aware. I will try and put together a version that implements rename/move detection, but it might take me a week or so to do that.Google Chromes Manifest V3 is probably going to make some consider switching browsers. ![]() SyncToy documentation mentions in passing their use of SHA1 hashes, but I can't really see how they can re-hash a large file in mere milliseconds, so they must in the end be doing #3 as well. This is similar to what delta copying does, and it would mean scanning and re-hashing the candidate (new) file to determine if it's a match to a disappeared one.īased on the numbers you posted, other backup programs are likely to be doing either #1 or #3. This will obviously not work if the file is not only moved, but also modified between the backups.įourth is the same but to also account for the file contents through hashing. Third is to simply look at the timestamps and sizes and see if any of the disappeared files have reappeared elsewhere under a different name. The API hooking is interesting, but it is prone to the same set of support problems as the first option. I personally get willies even thinking of integrating with Windows Explorer. Second is to hook either the Windows Explorer (apparently it implements some sort of move/rename notification/vetoing mechanism) or to hook the Win32 API through injection. Also this will require admin privileges and may require reboots in some cases, again something that I'd like to avoid. This something that I can actually write, but would rather not to due to much increased support load. One is with the file system driver that monitors all FS activity. There are at least four ways it can be done. ![]() On backslash - it's not - I had a look at the renaming/moving thing. I was wrecking my head on how to properly handle this setup, and I think the most sensible thing to do is to detect files that are NOT owned by current user and make Bvckup ask the user if it should copy the ownership information. The first copy would succeed, and the second copy will fail, because the destination machine will (quite reasonably) refuse bvckup full access to the file owner by another user. So bvckup ended up making a copy of the file not owned by the user whose account it was running under. With regards to the "can't set ownership on dest files" issue - I saw this before, and it was triggered by a file being initially copied from another machine or created by another user. Another person asked for a similar feature over an email, let me just copy-paste my reply here: with regards to backing up into an archive file - I am very reluctant to add this. ![]()
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