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Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:
AS>> Wouldn`t open for me even 128-tailed FireFox (115.31.0esr),
AS>> not to mention such decent browsers as Dillo[1] or
AS>> Kristall[2]. JavaS`creep to blame!
AK> Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is
AK> there.
Yes, I know.
AK> Maybe, if you tried to see it at your office you could meet
AK> the messenger blocking -- a very usual policy now in many
AK> offices, at least in Russia now.
Nope -- my employer does not employ any such blocking. The
problem is that these "apps"[1] are what I call web-trash,
authored by web-destroyers. They only work in major browsers,
and even then stop working as soon as you skip a few updates
-- the proverbial upgrade treadmill! There is total and
universal abuse of Javas`Creep, and I am thankful to websites
that raise awareness of it, e.g.:
<
https://eldritchdata.neocities.org/>
In the way of messengers, I should consider IRC (+ZNC),
deltachat, and mailing lists (e.g. GNU Mailman2). Failing those,
there are "contemporary" solutions, such as the XMPP protocol.
For privacy and anonymity, I recommend:
GNUPG : <
https://gnupg.org/> and
OmniMix: <
https://danner-net.de/omd.htm>
There are builds of GPG that still work on my Windows XP,
and my mail client (Sylpheed) has excellent integration
with gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9 (Gpg4win 1.1.4) . Omnimix supports
Windows XP as well.
AK> You can try Tor browser -- it still allows watch what you
AK> like to.
Yes, I am using it with some bridges I recevied in response to
an e-mail to
bridges@torproject.org . But then again, this Tor
Browser is based on Firefox, so it is not updating on older
versions of Windows, even post-XP. I am also using SOCKS5
proxies with browsers, e-mail, IRC, and Usenet clients, because
our blessed govt. are blocking or throttling all my IRC, NNTP,
SSH, and IMAP connections (except Gmail!).
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