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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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So what's the go to now?

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In 90 days this might be the provable top choice for all desktop OSes :

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/platforms.md

Its working fine now, and attracting more developers.

Its just Chromium source code, with some niceties added, and some privacy added.

window, mac, linux, full source code

full COMPLETE source code up to date, not "held back longer and longer until its months between source code updates"

Google declared open war on Chromium source code for the first time, less than 4 weeks ago, so this is the obvious outcome... grass roots uprising

What that link offers :

ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.

Disable functionality specific to Google domains (e.g. Google Host Detector, Google URL Tracker, Google Cloud Messaging, Google Hotwording, etc.)

This includes disabling Safe Browsing (snitching to google)

Block internal requests to Google at runtime. This feature is a fail-safe measure for the above, in case Google changes or introduces new components that our patches do not disable. This feature is implemented by replacing many Google web domains in the source code with non-existent alternatives ending in qjz9zk

Strip binaries from the source code!!!!!!!

Force all pop-ups into tabs

disable hiding "http://" or other nonsense

hundreds of little features many chromium forks also implement : https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium#feature-overview

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Oh you finally discovered ungoogled chromium? That's great!

There's iridium also