There's an alternative for Pale Moon...

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/

Interesting, thanks.

uMatrix has been abandoned, sadly.

I'm very worried about this, to be honest. There doesn't appear to be anything even remotely close to a proper replacement for uMatrix. The thought of going back to the relentless spyware that is the web today (without uMatrix) is literally scary.

Someone here (long-ago thread) suggested uBlock Origin but it doesn't come anywhere near the functionality of uMatrix.

I'll continue using uMatrix and it continues to work perfectly but if Mozilla ever breaks it with incompatible changes, I'm at a loss what to do. Keeping fingers crossed it works for a long time.

I'd be happy to pay substantial money for something like uMatrix.

uBO static filters work fine as a replacement for most uM rules, except that you have to write them by hand instead of the convenient table UI that uM had.

Eg my static filters start with:

    *$css,font,frame,media,object,ping,script,websocket,xhr
    *$image,redirect=1x1.gif
    *$csp=worker-src 'none'
    @@*$1p,css,frame,image,script


    ! GitHub

    !! github.com
    @@||s3.amazonaws.com^$domain=github.com,websocket,xhr
    @@||github.com^$domain=github.com,websocket,xhr
    @@||github.githubassets.com^$domain=github.com,css,image,script
    @@||githubusercontent.com^$domain=github.com,image
    @@||pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com^$domain=github.com,websocket,xhr
    @@||raw.githubusercontent.com^$domain=github.com,websocket,xhr
    @@||render.githubusercontent.com^$domain=github.com,css,frame,script

The first three lines disable a whole bunch of things on all websites, then the fourth selectively re-enables some of them (@@ are exception rules) in 1p cases. Then for each web property I have a section that selectively re-enables more things for that web property's domains (exception rules with a domain= filter).

Eg the first rule in the GH section says that github.com is allowed to make websocket and XHR requests to s3.amazonaws.com. If that line wasn't there, the very first line's rule would've blocked it.

Notice that 1p JS appears to be enabled by the fourth line, but I actually have dynamic rules to prevent JS by default, unless enabled per site:

    no-scripting: * true
    no-scripting: github.com false

The reason I do this with dynamic rules instead of static filters is that uBO has the ability to simulate noscript tags on websites where it disabled JS, but it only does that when JS is disabled via the `no-scripting` dynamic rule, not when it's disabled via static filters.

The only thing that uM does and uBO doesn't is cookies, so I still use uM for that.

> except that you have to write them by hand instead of the convenient table UI that uM had

Which means that this is not a proper replacement.

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/ if you're willing to use a fringe browser.

You can just use uBlock Origin in advanced mode, and the uMatrix features are in there.

https://imgur.com/a/AtZLOiO

It's nothing like the granularity of the uMatrix UI.

Will it be available in the EU or US only? Buying from the US not an alternative considering toll fees, VAT etc.

This is insane. Best software find in a long time. An open-source alternative to Fusion is very welcome for me.

And, lovely work on the UI!

And nowadays it emulates on and $40 SBC. Fantastic times!

After ZeroNet is installed on your computer and you have it running on port 43110 you can visit his site using that link.

I'd love to see this in https://www.home-assistant.io/ !

I looked at other custom components, and it looks like it's not so difficult to add this integration.

But it would be better if someone from home-assistant community create it, as they already know how to run and test the system. We will be happy to help them in this case.

I'll still add it to our backlog, I believe IoT is very promising direction for CompreFace, so I would like to support such things in the future.

I use this: https://notifier.in/

Same thing, works well. Newsletters are plague.

> Newsletters are plague.

That really depends on how you use email. I always have a very empty email inbox and newsletters stay there until I read them (I'm talking about newsletters from people, not the latest deals on some ecommerce website).

I wouldn't call them a plague but it's easy to drown in stuff being pushed out via email. So you end up filtering and it all goes into a folder you never look at.

What would you improve?

I think what happened when brexit went into full effect was pretty telling. Both Facebook and Google were on their toes to get back to abusing the data of UK citizens. There's much to be gained.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/15/facebook-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusi...

That was meant more as a preliminary defense as I saw other people complain and don’t know enough to defend the specific legislation.

But damn, that is indeed a pretty good indicator that it’s working as intended.