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<blockquote data-quote="HarborFront" data-source="post: 892928" data-attributes="member: 55987">Experimental QUIC Protocol - DisabledPlease read the comment inside the below article to disable it[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.ghacks.net/2020/07/01/how-to-enable-http-3-support-in-firefox/[/URL]Quote from commentThe ‘QUIC’ protocol (Google originated BTW) appears to be insecure against webtracking by commercial as well as govt. trackers &amp; surveillance. A user/browser may be (passively) uniquely tracked across a browsing session (and possibly across multiple sessions in some instances), without the need for cookies, other trackers, or fingerprinting, according to a recent University of Hamburg paper:<a href="https://content.sciendo.com/downloadpdf/journals/popets/2019/3/article-p255.pdf" target="_blank">https://content.sciendo.com/downloadpdf/journals/popets/2019/3/article-p255.pdf</a>Thus, probably best not to enable this in your browser if you are privacy-minded, until this hole is patched … (I haven’t been able to find any mention that browser vendors have even addressed this to-date)QUIC has already been enabled in Chrome for quite some time, surprise, surprise (Google builds in yet another hidden, powerful privacy-shredding tracker into its next-generation web technology and as well as its 60%-market-share-browser?? There’s a shocker for ya…) You can disable this in most Chromium-based browsers, tho’, and/or otherwise at your OS firewall:<a href="https://www.bitdefender.com/support/how-to-disable-quic-protocol-in-google-chrome-1669.html" target="_blank">How to disable QUIC protocol in Google Chrome</a>Unquote</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HarborFront, post: 892928, member: 55987"] Experimental QUIC Protocol - Disabled Please read the comment inside the below article to disable it [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ghacks.net/2020/07/01/how-to-enable-http-3-support-in-firefox/[/URL] Quote from comment The ‘QUIC’ protocol (Google originated BTW) appears to be insecure against webtracking by commercial as well as govt. trackers & surveillance. A user/browser may be (passively) uniquely tracked across a browsing session (and possibly across multiple sessions in some instances), without the need for cookies, other trackers, or fingerprinting, according to a recent University of Hamburg paper: [URL]https://content.sciendo.com/downloadpdf/journals/popets/2019/3/article-p255.pdf[/URL] Thus, probably best not to enable this in your browser if you are privacy-minded, until this hole is patched … (I haven’t been able to find any mention that browser vendors have even addressed this to-date) QUIC has already been enabled in Chrome for quite some time, surprise, surprise (Google builds in yet another hidden, powerful privacy-shredding tracker into its next-generation web technology and as well as its 60%-market-share-browser?? There’s a shocker for ya…) You can disable this in most Chromium-based browsers, tho’, and/or otherwise at your OS firewall: [URL="https://www.bitdefender.com/support/how-to-disable-quic-protocol-in-google-chrome-1669.html"]How to disable QUIC protocol in Google Chrome[/URL] Unquote [/QUOTE]

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