Not sure if this the appropriate place for it but the FOSS communities seemed dead.

This is Bridge - a privacy focused, Firefox AI disabled, Fediverse integrated browser. It has vim navigation via Tridactyl, Bitwarden integration, as well as Ublock integration.

It has an old Firefox RSS feature where you can scan a site for RSS feeds and it will add them to the RSS feed reader.

But the highlight of this is the Mastodon and Lemmy integration. you can have your Mastodon feed displayed in the sidebar on the browser which will give you access to your home, local, and fediverse feeds. you can post, reply, boost, and favourite posts.

The Lemmy extension allows you to see and link directly to lemmy discussions on whatever instance you like (multiple even) if you’re on a site/news article/blog post/whatever. If the extension sees that this has been posted on Lemmy, it will provide you with a direct link to whatever discussions it finds based on the current URL you’re on.

This has been a hobby project of mine for a bit now, It’s very slow development as I have a job and can’t dedicate all the time in the world to this. I wanted to originally build a browser from scratch but realized that would probably take me years so I settled with a fork of firefox.

Currently I believe it only works on Linux and is in a very early alpha. It hasn’t crashed on me yet but visually is a bit rough around the edges.

I just wanted to share this little hobby project I’ve been working on. Thanks!

https://codeberg.org/rozodru/Bridge

UPDATE Since I already got a lot of feedback and more people than anything else wanted the Lemmy Extension as a stand alone extension…I delivered.

You were all correct, the Lemmy Add-on is a bigger deal than the browser. Again this was just a hobby project of mine as I’ve never played around with firefox forks before or extensions/addons for that matter so this is my first time.

Regardless, here it is: https://codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBridge

NOTE: I have submitted it to Mozilla so it is NOT VERIFIED as of right now, if you want to use it, use it at your own discretion. If it breaks something in whatever fork of firefox you’re using then I take no responsibility.

Again thanks for all the support, appreciate it.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    41·
    14 hours ago

    Sending the current URL and directly from your own IP too is quite the privacy hurdle already. I’ve already posted on what kind of things could be done to improve this, but first, a notice.

    Your README says in the Privacy section:

    Does not track your browsing

    On the current implementation, this should be changed to:

    Enables unverified third parties to track your browsing data

    As that honesty is quite important.

    As for measures that could be taken to improve on this issue, I have three suggestions (I might Issue Tracker them to the codeberg later, if I can find my credentials XD)

    • Set up a uBO-stye control pane that allows to set this on or off per-domain or per-site. Bonus points if it allows for per-site specific on which lemmy instances to use the same way as uBO’s “3p” Custom Rules does. This already prevents a number of undesirable use cases, such as automatically sending LAN / non-DNS names to third parties when they can’t really be searched for anyways.
    • Anonimyzing assist: Allow for sending only the global context of the visited site (eg.: only the domain) instead of the full URL.
    • Anonimyzing assist: Allow to cache requests to send them later / send them in batches, to avoid clock-based / timezone-based tracking attacks.
    • Anonimyzing assist: Allow for the browser-specific request being sent through a proxy or relay, so that IP origin information is not leaked. (I think this only really makes sense for users not logged-in?)
      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        I don’t think the ideas of Lambalicious work with Lemmy. What would sending the domain name only achieve? I assume it uses the same logic as Lemmy uses to find crossposts? Obviously it needs the whole address then.

        Maybe instead of crawling automatically, the users need to click a button to look up discussions? (I have yet to install your extension, so I have yet to experience the workflow myself, sorry.)

        Maybe link to the privacy terms of the default instances? In general, I think your approach is good. You don’t collect any data, the feature is 100% opt-in. A central relay/proxy is even worse than your current approach. People are obviously free to set up their own Lemmy/Mastodon server if they want a relay.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          What would sending the domain name only achieve?

          I’m guessing the idea could be to fetch a batch of recent discussions based on pages within a domain, then filter the results locally. This could even work very well with local caching.