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Firefox is the best web browser i know of as far as it capabilities and potential for privacy hardening, in part due to the , and understand that this

i think there's some 'misthink' among some of us in that using Firefox correlates to supporting Mozilla and that absolutely does not have to be the case, in fact quite the opposite - one can easily use the browser without supporting Mozilla and gain a substantial benefit with regard to protecting privacy

Mozilla is fucked, no doubt - beyond the politically correct/pro faggot bullshit, the 'free speech' advocates at corporate are perusing ways to literally censor the web, along with all of the rest of big tech

i hate the company, but i still use Firefox without giving Moz a dime

they make their millions (literally) from their many deals with many unethical companies, primarily search engines like google, so when you use the default Firefox search plugins, they get paid, simple as that

fortunately using their product without them benefiting is quite easy; basically you can just disable all of the built-in search plugs and add your own ... there's more to it than that, but that's the major part of it

for more info, and to understand why i suggest using FF from a privacy perspective, - among those articles you'll find 2 comprehensive configuration guides as well as info on search engines

Firefox is the best web browser i know of as far as it capabilities and potential for privacy hardening, in part due to the [arkenfox user.js project](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js), and understand that this [isn't coming from a Firefox fanboy](https://12bytes.org/articles/tech/the-mozilla-monster/) i think there's some 'misthink' among some of us in that using Firefox correlates to supporting Mozilla and that absolutely does not have to be the case, in fact quite the opposite - one can easily use the browser without supporting Mozilla and gain a substantial benefit with regard to protecting privacy Mozilla is fucked, no doubt - beyond the politically correct/pro faggot bullshit, the 'free speech' advocates at corporate are perusing ways to literally censor the web, along with all of the rest of big tech i hate the company, but i still use Firefox without giving Moz a dime they make their millions (literally) from their many deals with many unethical companies, primarily search engines like google, so when you use the default Firefox search plugins, they get paid, simple as that fortunately using their product without them benefiting is quite easy; basically you can just disable all of the built-in search plugs and add your own ... there's more to it than that, but that's the major part of it for more info, and to understand why i suggest using FF from a privacy perspective, [go here](https://12bytes.org/articles/tech/firefox/) - among those articles you'll find 2 comprehensive configuration guides as well as info on search engines

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Seriously dude I would be careful about Brave.

The whole IPFS/TOR + Brave integration is bad news. They're trying to identify users on TOR/IPFS by using Brave to track activity. It's convenient to use TOR/IPFS via Brave. That's how they get you every time. Convenience.

Never ever ever ever ever use TOR or IPFS via Brave. Never ever. EVER.

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I'm all about "clearnet", I'm really not interested in "underground" stuffs... Piss poor bandwidth and total lack of a need for it being the main reasons

I plan on ditching brave for ungoogledchromium btw. I tried a fresh install of ungoogled chromium on a live usb of mine and the graphic bug is gone, so I'm happy I guess. I suppose I've installed both, chromium and ungoogledcrhomium back then or some shit, and it started to fuck around https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian

>NOTE: The packages are essentially identical in structure to Debian's chromium packages. As a result, they cannot be installed simultaneously with the distro-provided Chromium package.

-ha

Btw I've followed the instructions provided over there for debian 10, it works

...

That being said I really need something like a tenth of all the features chromium has. Like fucking bookmarks I don't give a shit about bookmarks. Extensions, I only need an ad blocker... Themes? Fuck themes I'm only going to use my system theme, duh!

A world of shit, I tell you

Indeed.

Good idea to switch from Brave. Extensions are the main thing I need in a browser.

uMatrix, uBlock Origin, Fingerprint spoofing, Shortcut Manager (dude you don't know life until you can move across open tabs with a one-handed keyboard shortcut), etc.

I'm with you on not needing 90% of the browser features. Wish we could just have a simple browser with addon support that doesn't spy on you. That's all I need.

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>dude you don't know life until you can move across open tabs with a one-handed keyboard shortcut

I use the mouse wheel... There's also the top ctrl+1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc keys. Or just ctrl+tab / ctrl+shift+tab, not sure what an extension would add

Qutebrowser is pretty close to what I would consider the ultimate browser regarding UI

A crossover between ungoogledchromium and qutebrowser UI would be ideal, and I believe it's doable

Now ideally you want 2 actionable modes via command line arguments for instance: vim style, and "normal", as in you click on shits, no funky keyboard shortcut vim style, just the classics, and everything else (like the "burger" menu and shits) is parked on the right click menu (right click that should not be blockable by js btw), just like in the old arch https://pic8.co/sh/DOOrsG.png

You can achieve a fuckton with that right click menu, no need for fancy shit buttons everywhere