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Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

Dear all

I have deleted Onedrive and disabled File system access in Privacy.

  1. I would like to know, which other ways that my personal files could be uploaded in a non-malicious non-hacker way?
  2. Just by using Windows, Microsoft could upload all my personal files to themselves if they would?
  3. Does every installed App / software have full access to my whole drive? How can I found out, how much access it has?

Thank you for your interest and reply

Best regards

@Rikudou_Sage@lemmy.world

Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

Dear all

I have deleted Onedrive and disabled File system access in Privacy.

  1. I would like to know, which other ways that my personal files could be uploaded in a non-malicious non-hacker way?
  2. Just by using Windows, Microsoft could upload all my personal files to themselves if they would?
  3. Does every installed App / software have full access to my whole drive? How can I found out, how much access it has?

Thank you for your interest and reply

Best regards

@Rikudou_Sage@lemmy.world

Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

thanks

does this mean software with admin privilege only have access to user folder not root folder of C drive?

Chameleon vs JShelter in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Chameleon vs JShelter (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter?

  • Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer.
  • JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing.
    • Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

JShelter seems to spoof info by controls the APIs provided by the browser? and Chameleon spoofs user agent and many other information.

To me both seems to serves the same purpose of spoofing. Is Chameleon spoofing without interfering with js and JShelter spoofing with interfering with js the main difference between them? In addition JShelter seems to be able to block malicious js

How JShelter and Chameleon achieves spoofing differently?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Chameleon vs JShelter in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

thank you for your information, would you say JShelter does everything Chameleon do (including spoofing) so that if I use JShelter I don't have to use Chameleon?

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

trustworthy personal firewall

what do you use?

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

Programs can be restricted by filesystem permissions and the OS firewall, and not running them as admin

can you explain how to do this?

steam games for example are nearly impossible to run without admin, can I restrict filesystem permissions for these software?

Is there a way to block browser JavaScript from executing commands that retrieve sensitive information from my local machine, while still allowing JavaScript that is only used for rendering web pages? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm still bit confused. How rendering could result in fingerprinting? If canvas and other fingerprinting is disabled of course. how is ad render different from rendering other element on a webpage

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

what about other program?

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

@Rikudou_Sage@lemmy.world

this is absolutely horrorstruck

is there a way to prevent this?

for instance is there a way to run steam on windows without giving it access to any of access it shouldn't have?

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Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

Dear all

I have deleted Onedrive and disabled File system access in Privacy.

  1. I would like to know, which other ways that my personal files could be uploaded in a non-malicious non-hacker way?
  2. Just by using Windows, Microsoft could upload all my personal files to themselves if they would?
  3. Does every installed App / software have full access to my whole drive? How can I found out, how much access it has?

Thank you for your interest and reply

Best regards

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

Dear all

I have deleted Onedrive and disabled File system access in Privacy.

  1. I would like to know, which other ways that my personal files could be uploaded in a non-malicious non-hacker way?
  2. Just by using Windows, Microsoft could upload all my personal files to themselves if they would?
  3. Does every installed App / software have full access to my whole drive? How can I found out, how much access it has?

Thank you for your interest and reply

Best regards

@Rikudou_Sage@lemmy.world

Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).

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firefox browser extension that disable the web connection of other extensions (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Is there a firefox extension that disable the web connection of other extensions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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firefox browser extension that disable the web connection of other extensions (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Is there a firefox extension that disable the web connection of other extensions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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firefox browser extension that disable the web connection of other extensions (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Is there a firefox extension that disable the web connection of other extensions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

How can a site see what extensions you have? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
Never found a better plugin - chameleon in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think there might be a bit of misunderstanding about what those permissions mean. The extensions just need to be able to "see" the contents of a web page in order to be able to hide ads, change font & background colors, edit URLs, or redirect resource requests. There is no other way for them to perform those functions unless they have permission to read the original data presented by websites you visit.

What is the best degoogled tablet for an artist? in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

looks good, nice if someone could provide their stylus use experience

How can a site see what extensions you have? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Thanks a lot

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Chameleon vs JShelter (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter?

  • Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer.
  • JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing.
    • Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

JShelter seems to spoof info by controls the APIs provided by the browser? and Chameleon spoofs user agent and many other information.

To me both seems to serves the same purpose of spoofing. Is Chameleon spoofing without interfering with js and JShelter spoofing with interfering with js the main difference between them? In addition JShelter seems to be able to block malicious js

How JShelter and Chameleon achieves spoofing differently?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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Chameleon vs JShelter (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter?

  • Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer.
  • JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing.
    • Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

JShelter seems to spoof info by controls the APIs provided by the browser? and Chameleon spoofs user agent and many other information.

To me both seems to serves the same purpose of spoofing. Is Chameleon spoofing without interfering with js and JShelter spoofing with interfering with js the main difference between them? In addition JShelter seems to be able to block malicious js

How JShelter and Chameleon achieves spoofing differently?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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Chameleon vs JShelter (lemmy.world)
 

What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter?

  • Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer.
  • JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
    • JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing.
    • Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

JShelter seems to spoof info by controls the APIs provided by the browser? and Chameleon spoofs user agent and many other information.

To me both seems to serves the same purpose of spoofing. Is Chameleon spoofing without interfering with js and JShelter spoofing with interfering with js the main difference between them? In addition JShelter seems to be able to block malicious js

How JShelter and Chameleon achieves spoofing differently?

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Never found a better plugin - chameleon (sereneblue.github.io)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31885153

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

https://sereneblue.github.io/chameleon/

strongly recommend

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31885153

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

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