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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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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I agree with him about Brave browser being fucked. on the topic

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apt install webext-ublock-origin-firefox firefox-esr -y

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/06/firefox-85-0-1-fixes-a-critical-security-issue-and-bugs/

>Firefox 85.0.1 and Firefox ESR 78.7.1 are security updates first and foremost. Mozilla patched a single security issue in both versions of the browser.

>The vulnerability, Buffer overflow in depth pitch calculations for compressed textures, has received the severity rating critical, the highest rating available. Mozilla notes that the issue affects Firefox running on Windows machines only, all other supported operating systems are not affected by the issue.

Safe and secure super easy

Too bad it tends to suck donkey balls regarding overall perfs, especially on launch, it's slow and heavy, and of course shitlib policies...

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Before brave I used chromium, and you know why? Perfs

And one day chromium started to render shits sideways for god knows why, so I started to look elsewhere. Tried them all, literally. Settled on brave, mostly for the perfs and the funky features, and it's not ugly

Vivaldi is good, too, just not as good as brave

Fuck opera because opera, it kind of feels like another firefox

You have iridium, but since it's based on chromium, same deal, shits render sideways on my config

And ungoogled chromium evidently, but same deal

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In the end it's the story of the lesser of two evil, no matter what you choose, it's still evil

Take the evil you know, that's all you can do

Also, qutebrowser ftw. In a decade.

https://qutebrowser.org/

It's vim style and it's deved by a one guy army

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

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

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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