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Firefox is obviously out... Recommendations on good web browsers?

Trying to unjewgle my life.

Firefox is obviously out... Recommendations on good web browsers? Trying to unjewgle my life.

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https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/252612

I went against my own poll and picked Tor though due to

For a browser that sells privacy and security, Brave dev team caused quite a controversy when they decided to whitelist certain domains including Facebook ad tracking URLs.

Following a Twitter uproar, they were forced to release a statement yet the update was not reversed. In fact, they went on to add a Twitter URL to the whitelist. The whitelist is hard coded and users cannot edit it.

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Depends on what you are trying to do.

Burner device, running an Emulator, with mic and camera physically disabled, as well as Bluetooth and ANT antennae physically disabled. Run your browser in the emulator/virtual machine.

Use any WiFi other than your own.

Don't use your name on anything. Anything. Change your identity to John Smith or Jose Garcia. Don't use the same password on anything. Don't use the same username on anything. If it needs a phone number, get a burner phone, then ditch the number.

Devices talk to each other. Without your consent. This is why it doesn't take long for a device to figure out who you and your friends are for contact tracing.

Spoof your GPS location. Spoof your MAC address.

Use Peerblock or equivalent and blacklist everything. Then, start, to slowly allow connections as needed.

If you are too locked down and too anonymous, you will not be able to use any services. Not even Google will let you search in some cases. This is why you need multiple fake online identities.

The truth is Chrome and Firefox, with their plug-ins and extensions, are the best browsers, utility wise. You need plug-ins like ublock Origin, Ghostery, Decentraleyes, etc.

You are the product. Your data is being traded among hidden powers that are using it to social engineer totalitarianism into everyone's lives.

The only real way to know what data is flying around is to start tracking packets and running down their source and destination. Most people will find virtual devices, like virtual USB and virtual modems inside your modem. All of your devices are communicating with each other, if they are modern and recent. They are wholesale saving up your data, then sending it off through a tunnel made by your ISP, to marketing firms, which then sell it.

In one instance, I found someone's TV acting as a storage device, that was uploading data gathered by the TV. It is very difficult to eliminate all the threats.

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I think the best ones right now are Ungoogled Chromium and tor browser

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  • What please is Ungoogled Chromium and can you share via a link? Thank you.
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what? is brave bad now?

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Brave has been compromised for a while now.

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How so?

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They hardcoded fakebook and twatter URLs into their white list.

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I too would be interested in an updated list for 2021 from anyone in a security or devops background. I'm currently using Chromium (Un-googled as far as I know) and WaterFox.

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My main browser is Vivaldi, but I've gotten that itch that I should change to something else. Might go Pale Moon fully.

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Your choice of browsers is the same as your choice of politicians.

You can pick Blink (chrome) or Gecko (mozilla) core. I opt for mozilla core because, unlike chromium, it was not built from the ground up to fingerprint users for advertiser identification.

Here's some mozilla based browsers that are stripped of bullshit: https://github.com/muslayev/iceweasel-win64/releases https://github.com/muslayev/icecat-win64/releases https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.basilisk-browser.org/

If I was gonna run a chrome core browser, I'd use Vivaldi.

You can see the different engines that browsers use: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline_of_web_browsers.svg

And you can see what browsers are popular (almost every fucking normie is running Chromium, that should tell you something) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/BrowserUsageShare.png

There are, however, two almost worthwhile browsers that don't use either Gecko nor Blink:

https://www.fenrir-inc.com/jp/sleipnir/

https://astian.org/en/midori-browser/

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On Android I use "Bromite" available on fdroid. It's degoogled chromium with a built in adblocker.

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Brave, it's open-source and block every bullshit tracker and ads

Also, edit your hosts file to block even more crap

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Waterfox is good again

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Waterfox is good again

Found on a search for Firefox alternatives:

It appears that the Waterfox web browser has been sold to System1 recently, the same company that bought the Startpage search engine some time ago. To be precise, Startpage was bought by Privacy One Group Ltd which System1 owns. System1 is an advertising company that tries to "make advertising better and safer, while respecting consumer privacy".

So Watefox was bought by an advertising company. Have fun with that if you value privacy.

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Wasn't Waterfox a Chinese knock-off of Firefox?

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Opera? Though I'm not sure as I have not looked into it with very much detail as of this post...

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Owned by a Chinese corporation now. Pass

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ok thanks like I said I had not looked into them in a while

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Chromium = CIA, that is neutralized by Opera = Chinese, that is neutralized by Yandex = FSB. I myself hope that by using Yandex, I have neutralized any SJW influence.

For me, the most important feature is the NoScript extension (no code get's executed until I whitelist a site, some like FB are blacklisted), and the Chromium NoScript extension could read the whitelist maintained in the Firefox extension.

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I thought yandex was just a search engine. They have a browser now too? Is it based on chromium like 99% of other browsers?

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The Yandex browser is based on Opera which uses the Chromium engine. The installation grabbed all bookmarks, history and cookies from Firefox, the switch was almost seamless. Looks very good so far, feeling like a real Russian bot now.

https://browser.yandex.com/

NoSript is not in the extension library, that was almost a no-go. But I could install it from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/noscript/doojmbjmlfjjnbmnoijecmcbfeoakpjm and transfer the white-list from Firefox.

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