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GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is
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the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an
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ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source
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code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and
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recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. Also their
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trademark license restricts distribution in several ways incompatible
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with freedom 0. Icecat includes the following privacy protection
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features:
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LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described
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in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.
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Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with
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many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
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SpyBlock: Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and
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all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on
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Adblock Plus.
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AboutIceCat: Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to
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information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat,
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and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break
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websites.
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Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of
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techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific
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characterisics of that particular instance (like what fonts are
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available in that machine). Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of
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being tracked this way, so the browser has to avoid giving away that
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kind of hints.
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