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Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Girlparts@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Brave will allow users to choose which sites can access local network resources.

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[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authority/

[–] ch1cken@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ublock origin can already do this btw, don't need an additional browser addon, just tick the "block outsider intrustion into lan" blocklist

[–] FreeBooteR69@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like something that should be a default setting.

[–] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I love Ublock Origin so much. It does so much to make my browsing experience the best.

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. +1

[–] floppingfish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a great feature! Where would I find that setting on ubock origin?

[–] c0nflux@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

https://i.imgur.com/7xi7wbv.png

Extension settings -> Filter Lists -> Check the box under 'Privacy'