Safer Computing

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@hp185688

I can use websites that I must use to be a functioning member of society without exposing my hard drive to data harvesting, or have a very nearly impossible time functioning along with everyone else.

I think you’re overestimating how much data is available to a website.

@AnotherDev

QubesOS and use fresh “untrusted” browsers every time. You can use Whonix and TOR with QubesOS as well.

I have to say, Qubes really sounds like what @hp185688 is looking for.

@hp185688

I’m not giving consent for anyone to read the hard drive at all. I am implicitly providing consent for a website to acquire the data I input directly to that web site.

In order to read the hard drive, you need to do one of two things:

1. open a file dialog and “upload” (either expose it to the local JS, or actually upload it to a server) a file to the website.
2. give the script permission to access the filesystem, via a prompt. Similar to the one on this site that asks if you want to get desktop notifications.