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Falkon Browser Has Gotten Better
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TWO days ago I updated KDE Neon to the latest version, knowing that KDE Plasma had made a release. KDE Neon usually contains the very latest of everything, so it's useful for demonstrating upcoming features in GNU/Linux.
"Falkon is not a company and it won't collect data about the user."Today we take a look at the latest Falkon. This browser was covered here almost 2 years ago (in Debian 10), but it has matured a lot since. The above shows how Falkon can be configured to fool stubborn sites into thinking you're in fact using some other Web browser (so that they let the visitor through). To quote IRC from two days ago, Ryan "learned that you have to be very careful with the User Agent. Get one thing wrong and Cloudflare sites stop working because they don't know what your browser is. This is horrible. You shouldn't even have to lie about your User Agent, but if you do, it has to at least be some take on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari."
In practice, just about every Web site works OK with Falkon. Some need to be given a false User Agent, but in Falkon that's easy to configure and the functionality is built in. Ad blocking is also built in and highly effective. Falkon is not a company and it won't collect data about the user. ⬆