Has anyone used the Camoufox browser? (github.com)
from Waterfall@piefed.social to privacy@lemmy.ml on 07 Jan 09:06
https://piefed.social/c/privacy/p/1639398/has-anyone-used-the-camoufox-browser

A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
Camoufox is an open source anti-detect browser for robust fingerprint injection & anti-bot evasion.

I saw this browser on GitHub. Can it be used on a daily basis? How does it compare to Mullvad Browser or Librewolf?

#privacy

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Madrigal@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 09:21 next collapse

Do you understand what scraping is? This is not a browser for everyday use.

Waterfall@piefed.social on 08 Jan 13:50 collapse

Oh, I’ve heard a little about that, but I haven’t looked into it in depth. Thanks for the explanation!

GreenShimada@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 10:08 collapse

The rule of thumb is that you’re not going to just find some hidden gem super stealth browser. If it’s not well-known in the privacy community, it’s a scam and scraping tool.

Browsers take huge amounts of work, even FF forks. This seems like bait and until you find a researcher going out of their way to tell you to use it, don’t use it.

Waterfall@piefed.social on 08 Jan 13:52 collapse

Yes, it seems that this is still a new project, and there is not enough information about it to trust the developers.