shell-things/etc/opt/chromium/policies/managed/README.md

Chromium policies

• aminda-extensions.json
  • Silk - Privacy Pass Client for the browser
  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
  • NoScript
  • Dark Reader
  • Privacy Manager
  • Fedora User Agent
  • Snowflake
  • Bitwarden
  • Privacy Badger
• disable-floc.json
• disable-incognito.json
• doh-automatic.json
• doh-dns0.json
• enable-ech-ocsp.json
• enable-home-labs.json
• force-incognito.json
• https-everywhere.json

aminda-extensions.json

As I cannot separate the keys to multiple files I am forced to keep them in one and separate by what the file does, aminda-extensions.json is unlikely to overlap with someone else.

Changing normal_installed to force_installed would also prevent uninstallation.

Silk - Privacy Pass Client for the browser

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Silk or Privacy Pass has a chance of decreasing the amount of captchas especially from Cloudflare when “suspicious” traffic is detected.

To intentionally trigger it and what should be allowed in NoScript:

• https://captcha.website
• https://issuance.privacypass.cloudflare.com

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

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Installed by default so Google won’t be the default search engine.

NoScript

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Appears to make the internet much more pleasant and less distracting in 2024 eliminating the cookie banners and all, while not trusting lists generated by other people.

Dark Reader

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As playing around with these policies and constantly removing the profile directory doesn’t help my migraine.

Privacy Manager

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Quick browser options and data removal on startup. Maybe beneficial if incognito is disabled (which again is not great idea for quick guest access?)

Fedora User Agent

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Communicates websites that Ubuntu isn’t the only Linux distribution and makes some offer rpm packages directly.

Snowflake

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Helps bridge traffic to Tor by looking like WebRTC call.

Bitwarden

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The password manager of my choice.

Privacy Badger

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Configured to learn locally and also in incognito as opposed to only relying on vendor list. Also not display the “Welcome to Privacy Badger screen”.

See also:

• https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/admin-deployment.md
• https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/src/data/schema.json

disable-floc.json

Disables floc or ad topics that are against privacy.

• https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=google+floc+privacy+topics

disable-incognito.json

Disables incognito mode. I don’t recommend this.

doh-automatic.json

If no DNS over HTTPS policy is used, this unlocks the setting. Enabling managed policies disable it by default.

Incompatible with any actual DoH policy.

doh-dns0.json

Simply enables DNS-over-HTTPS with DNS0.eu

enable-ech-ocsp.json

Enables encrypted client hello and OCSP (or CRL?) checks.

enable-home-labs.json

Enables home button and access to labs by default.

force-incognito.json

Forces incognito mode. I don’t recommend this.

https-everywhere.json

Enforces https and attempts to upgrade http to https.