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Mozilla and Firefox have announced that they intend to censor by controlling what sites users see when they try to browse the Web. I use Firefox, but I can't keep using it if it is going to try to control my browsing. I will have to go somewhere else.

What is the collective wisdom of Poal regarding which is the best browser for daily viewing of the Internet with no censorship? Is it Brave? Pale Moon? How do I avoid having the tech giants control what sites I can see?

I need the best balance between ad blocking, privacy, freedom from censorship, speed, and reliability.

Mozilla and Firefox have announced that they intend to censor by controlling what sites users see when they try to browse the Web. I use Firefox, but I can't keep using it if it is going to try to control my browsing. I will have to go somewhere else. What is the collective wisdom of Poal regarding which is the best browser for daily viewing of the Internet with no censorship? Is it Brave? Pale Moon? How do I avoid having the tech giants control what sites I can see? I need the best balance between ad blocking, privacy, freedom from censorship, speed, and reliability.

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Since that sjw spouted off her mouth I've switched to Brave. It can't import the passwords I've accumulated on Faggotfox over the last 15 odd years but otherwise handles ad driven sites much better. You actually get to read a lot of the pages

I hate the start page of Brave with its woke photography as I've always been a stickler fo a blank page.

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You can change it to blank page.

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Yeah, mostly. The best I can do is make it a weird neon color with an empy + addcard at the top right.

Blank used to be either a solid white or solid grey screen.

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use internet explorer and import bookmarks and passwords from firefox. then import bookmarks and passwords from explorer into Brave

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Someone posted this here the other day. I don't know how credible the source is, but it the info seemed legit (albeit a bit old).

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html

The link looks shady, but I didn't catch digital aids using it.

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That website provide a lot of useful information and evidence to support it but as usual, do your own research.

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vivaldi

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Never heard of it, but I will check it out.

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also your pc is pinging shit independently, and web sites including poal can track you by your hardware(as with most games). so unless you browse in VM i dont even know that would work as gets over my head

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I'm using Iridium at the moment. I also use Pale Moon.

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I have several browsers in my computer some are better for privacy others are better for mainstream browsing. The same happens with search engines some are better for mainstream searches others are better for privacy. You will have to use both of them to find what you are searching at that moment. Tor is a good browser for privacy but many websites block tor so you need another browser to bypass the blockage.

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If you like Firefox over Chrome, you will like Waterfox over Brave.

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Waterfox is now owned by an advertising company.

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There's a possibility. Thanks.

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Duck duck go

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...is run from servers in israel.

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Guess i will have to take your word for it

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Anything within a VM connected to a Tor via VPN