jard

I have Librewolf with uBO and CanvasBlocker whitelisted for very specific websites. It required me both disabling uBO and allowing *.google.com in CanvasBlocker's whitelist for my browser to suddenly be "secure" again.

In other words... "we won't let you sign in unless you enable your trackers on your browser."

In my personal experience this is blatantly untrue, because now I can’t even log into my Google/YouTube account on Librewolf anymore. I get a prompt saying “this browser may be insecure” and requesting that I use Chrome instead. This is exactly what the Web Environment Integrity API was intended for — maybe they did decide to shelve it for general use, but Google is still absolutely trying to push this bullshit for their own services.

I never had this issue for the past 2 years I’ve used Librewolf until, coincidentally, Google “decided” to “sunset” its browser DRM.

I tested it on iOS Safari with my own hosted instance and it seems to be fine. Is macOS Safari different? Maybe that’d be a good bug to report.

Fair enough, it’s definitely not for everyone. It’s a great learning experience though!

In that case, Joplin and something like Syncthing + Git (so that you remain in control of your data) would fit your need, since in essence you’d just be securely and privately passing around all your notes/files over a decentralized network.

If you’re comfortable with self hosting, I recommend SilverBullet: it’s a Markdown-based knowledge management solution that runs as a PWA in any modern browser. It automatically syncs to a hosted SilverBullet server during use when you have an internet connection, and otherwise can run completely offline (provided that you use a browser that supports offline PWAs)