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[dkbit98]

In this case, unlike for all but one meetup in the past, we're only sponsoring. We advised a local Turkish friend we met a month ago during the WizardSwap sponsored meetup we organised in Istanbul on which venue would be best and where to promote the event. But they handled all the communication with the venue. They know Turkish, nobody on our team does.

It was a good decision to sponsor this meetup in Istanbul.
Turkey is one of the rear countries with many small local bitcoin shops and exchanges, you can literally find them everywhere in the street.
I am not sure how this ''shops'' are regulated exactly, but they are allowed to operate in this grey zone for now.

[OrangeFren]

After many requests we've added typeable selection of currencies to OrangeFren.com

[examplens]

After many requests we've added typeable selection of currencies to OrangeFren.com

Oh, this is quite a useful update.

When you are already at the keyboard, the logo of some exchanges does not load properly. Maybe you should look at that too
For example

[JollyGood]

If the Istanbul meetup is only going ahead because of your generous donation, it is worth more than just the money. It is a fantastic initiative to get involved with. If there was a sizeable turnout for the event, the information amassed around would certainly go well beyond the venue as people would spread the news and share details with family and friends.

I hope all the delegates and organisers have a great time at the meetup on 30th January.

This specific meetup is quite cheap for us. We'll see exactly how much it ends up costing us, but it should be just shy of $1000.

[OrangeFren]

Oh, this is quite a useful update.

When you are already at the keyboard, the logo of some exchanges does not load properly. Maybe you should look at that too
For example

Thanks for the report! I'm unable to replicate it... Is this an issue you're seeing repeatedly?

[examplens]

Thanks for the report! I'm unable to replicate it... Is this an issue you're seeing repeatedly?

I'm unsure if you changed anything, but now everything works normally. I tried on several browsers.

I see that you also have "OF Guarantee" in the table, what exactly is this about?
Some of the exchanges are escrowed funds with you, so in that way, you can offer certain guarantees or is it something else?

[OrangeFren]

I see that you also have "OF Guarantee" in the table, what exactly is this about?
Some of the exchanges are escrowed funds with you, so in that way, you can offer certain guarantees or is it something else?

Yes, that's correct. We hold deposits from the exchanges that participate in the OrangeFren Guarantee. This allows us to refund users directly in the event of an exchange violating its own ToS or getting hacked half way through a trade and loosing users' money.

We had to use these funds twice so far, both were cases wherein exchanges promised our users no KYC and then required it.


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Thanks to WizardSwap.io OrangeFren.com is organising a meet-up in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 in two weeks on Friday the 21st of February.

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Today we're launching the OrangeFren Plugin!

It's an extension for Chromium-based browsers that exists to safe-guard users from accessing phishing scams aimed against the users of exchanges listed on OrangeFren.com

It downloads a list of known phishing domains from OrangeFren.com once an hour, as well as self-generates possible phishing domains and compares the websites you access against them. The extension is open-source and it does not save or transmit any of your activity.

You can get it here: https://github.com/orangefren/OrangeFren-Plugin/releases/tag/v0.2



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[paid2]

Today we're launching the OrangeFren Plugin!

It's an extension for Chromium-based browsers that exists to safe-guard users from accessing phishing scams aimed against the users of exchanges listed on OrangeFren.com

It downloads a list of known phishing domains from OrangeFren.com once an hour, as well as self-generates possible phishing domains and compares the websites you access against them. The extension is open-source and it does not save or transmit any of your activity.

You can get it here: https://github.com/orangefren/OrangeFren-Plugin/releases/tag/v0.1

Excellent initiative, well done!

Do you plan to create such a plugin for Firefox-based browsers? I assume you've chosen Chromium because statistically most users use it. However I believe most people who value their privacy use Firefox (or some fork like Librewolf, Waterfox etc...), it could be great to have access to both .

Other question, do you think it would be possible to add a suggestion to report to Google when a user visits one of the phishing links? This would allow a maximum number of reports, which could increase the chances of getting a “phishing warning” message displayed (for those not using the plugin). I'm thinking of this: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
It would probably be difficult to motivate people to report the phishing link to the hosting provider (often done by e-mail and time-consuming), but reports to Google Safe Browsing are quick and easy.

By the way, I maintain some lists of phishing copies that I frequently report when they remain online (for different websites), if you want I can share it with you from time to time in case there are some you don't have already (perhaps via a PR on Github?).

[OrangeFren]

Excellent initiative, well done!

Do you plan to create such a plugin for Firefox-based browsers? I assume you've chosen Chromium because statistically most users use it. However I believe most people who value their privacy use Firefox (or some fork like Librewolf, Waterfox etc...), it could be great to have access to both .

Other question, do you think it would be possible to add a suggestion to report to Google when a user visits one of the phishing links? This would allow a maximum number of reports, which could increase the chances of getting a “phishing warning” message displayed (for those not using the plugin). I'm thinking of this: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
It would probably be difficult to motivate people to report the phishing link to the hosting provider (often done by e-mail and time-consuming), but reports to Google Safe Browsing are quick and easy.

By the way, I maintain some lists of phishing copies that I frequently report when they remain online (for different websites), if you want I can share it with you from time to time in case there are some you don't have already (perhaps via a PR on Github?).

Thank you! Yes, we'll likely make a Firefox version too.

Good idea with the Google Safe Browsing. I'll look into it.

Please share those websites! Currently the plugin design is such that the data is all stored on the OrangeFren.com database server, so a PR wouldn't be a great fit, because the data isn't in that repo. Either shoot me an email or send a text on SimpleX

[LoyceV]

It's an extension for Chromium-based browsers that exists to safe-guard users from accessing phishing scams

Why not create a hosts-file (like StevenBlack)? I don't like plugins, so I add more and more domains I don't want to visit to /etc/hosts and point them to localhost.
It doesn't work on Tor browser though.

[examplens]

Good idea with the Google Safe Browsing. I'll look into it.

Please share those websites! Currently the plugin design is such that the data is all stored on the OrangeFren.com database server, so a PR wouldn't be a great fit, because the data isn't in that repo. Either shoot me an email or send a text on SimpleX

This is a good thing. However, a better system for updating the database of blacklisted phishing sites should be made. I don't know how possible it is to add something like a "submit phishing domain" to the plugin itself, where users could report such sites directly, without sending a PM here or through other chat tools.

[dkbit98]

Today we're launching the OrangeFren Plugin!

This is a great idea with browser extension and it can be very useful but if I may suggest making additional filter for uBlockOrigin extension.
You can use the same list of phishing websites used in OrangeFren extension, so more people can have benefit even without installing anything extra.
With this method all browsers with adblockers would be supported.

List of different filters:
https://laniksj.github.io/ubo-filters/
https://filterlists.com/

[OrangeFren]

It's an extension for Chromium-based browsers that exists to safe-guard users from accessing phishing scams

Why not create a hosts-file (like StevenBlack)? I don't like plugins, so I add more and more domains I don't want to visit to /etc/hosts and point them to localhost.
It doesn't work on Tor browser though.

Good idea! I made an endpoint for this: orangefren.com/api/get_phishing_data/hosts

If you'd like to automatically append it to your hosts file use this:

Code:

curl -fsSL https://orangefren.com/api/get_phishing_data/hosts | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts > /dev/null

Just don't forget to remove the old ones when you're updating it.

This is a good thing. However, a better system for updating the database of blacklisted phishing sites should be made. I don't know how possible it is to add something like a "submit phishing domain" to the plugin itself, where users could report such sites directly, without sending a PM here or through other chat tools.

I'll look into adding this. Usually it was the exchanges that told us about phishing sites tricking their users. That's why the initial decision to only have the data fed in from our channels with them.

This is a great idea with browser extension and it can be very useful but if I may suggest making additional filter for uBlockOrigin extension.
You can use the same list of phishing websites used in OrangeFren extension, so more people can have benefit even without installing anything extra.
With this method all browsers with adblockers would be supported.

List of different filters:
https://laniksj.github.io/ubo-filters/
https://filterlists.com/

I think that's a good idea! We have other plans for the plugin in the future too so I don't mind ad blockers having this functionality too.

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[examplens]

If you'd like to automatically append it to your hosts file use this:

Code:

curl -fsSL https://orangefren.com/api/get_phishing_data/hosts | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts > /dev/null

Just don't forget to remove the old ones when you're updating it.

If you are already expanding the list outside of the exchanges that are in your monitoring, maybe you can also add https://github.com/phishfort/phishfort-lists
Metamask also relies on their list. Recently, there have been several cases of sites being mislabeled as phishing by Metamask, where PhishFort was responsible for the list/delist.

[OrangeFren]

Hey frens! We've added a live chat to OrangeFren.com. The chat requires no JS.

[OrangeFren]

Hey frens! We've added a live chat to OrangeFren.com. The chat requires no JS.

Now available in Intercambio.app too

[OrangeFren]

Hey frens! We've added a live chat to OrangeFren.com. The chat requires no JS.

We've improved the chat. The message box no longer reloads so you can write without worrying about losing what you're typing. Still no JS

[dkbit98]

We've improved the chat. The message box no longer reloads so you can write without worrying about losing what you're typing. Still no JS

I like how you are not asking email or anything else from visitors who for writing in chat and asking questions,
but in case you don't answer quick enough or if browser window was shut down accidentally, is there any way to read the answer you sent back.

[OrangeFren]

I like how you are not asking email or anything else from visitors who for writing in chat and asking questions,
but in case you don't answer quick enough or if browser window was shut down accidentally, is there any way to read the answer you sent back.

I recommend saving the chat ID or bookmarking the chat page. If you have the chat ID simply append it to:

Code:

orangefren.com/chat/[YOUR CHAT ID HERE]

Chats are setup in such a way that messages older than 7 days are deleted. So there's no real benefit to creating new chats. You can make one and reuse it forever and the old stuff will be gone all the same.

You can also leave a message with how you wish to be contacted. Ideally an email or simplex invite.

[JollyGood]

This was more good news because OrangeFren was involved in the Vienna meetup. Your commitment to the meetup events is commendable and because of that I hope you are receiving positive feedback from the delegates that attended. You did not provide any updates. Was there large gathering? I hope it was a successful event.

What are the next meetups or events you are contemplating organising or sponsoring?

Thanks to WizardSwap.io OrangeFren.com is organising a meet-up in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 in two weeks on Friday the 21st of February.