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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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I find it tiresome to keep up with what to use/not use. My impression was Brave was a good browser to utilize. Is that still the case?

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I use it and so far it's good yeah

It features an integrated ad blocker, integrated crypto currency system (which I don't use), integrated torrent downloader... I would say it's on par with chromium and firefox, but just better, even regarding perfs

Vivaldi isn't as bad as I thought it would be also last time I tried, but isn't as feature rich and a bit exotic regarding UI

Best of the best remains qutebrowser, that's what I call a true roxxor browser /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutebrowser

>qutebrowser (pronounced "cute browser") is a web browser for Linux, Windows, and macOS operating systems with Vim-style key bindings and a minimal GUI.[8] It is keyboard-driven and is inspired by similar software such as Vimperator and dwb.[9] It uses DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. Qutebrowser is included in the native repositories of Linux distributions such as Fedora and Arch Linux.[10]

>Qutebrowser is developed by Florian Bruhin, for which he received a CH Open Source award in 2016.[1]

https://qutebrowser.org/

It really is the shit, especially when you use a "tiling window environment"

Too bad the dev "team" (one guy) is semi retarded so it's not as good as it could be. It could be rendered compatible with ublockorgin package for instance https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/ublock-origin

>webext-ublock-origin-chromium lightweight and efficient ads, malware, trackers blocker (Chromium)

>webext-ublock-origin-firefox lightweight and efficient ads, malware, trackers blocker (Firefox)

But no, you have to set up garbage text files with your bare hands so it's not handy for automated installs and shits like that

Just that is annoying

And then it's vim style interface (read, everything super weird keyboard typing, mostly), which is great in many cases, and super annoying for... Games for instance... Eh...

It could feature command line arguments such as --mouse-mode so all optional stuffs and commands get parked in the right click menu and vim style commands are turned off. But no, not pure enough, we have to be retarded all the way even if it means getting stuck in hole like a fucking donkey sometimes https://pic8.co/sh/ixbNv0.jpg

But you should give it a try if you never did, it's different, and there's one thing going for it; no waste of "screen real estate"

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My impression was Brave was a good browser to utilize. Is that still the case?

Emphatically no, Brave has made far too many evil decisions to sell its users out, according to this web page... look at the long section on Brave :

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html

Remember , unlike firefox and a few other browsers, Brave has tons of closed source code and all the evil parts are in the closed section , historically.

Also Brave might suffer from this weeks Chrome drama (unknown) : https://poal.co/s/technology/315285

And Brave did in fact have TWO separate IP address leaks in less than 4 weeks : https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/25/latest-brave-browser-update-fixes-tor-onion-dns-leak/

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So what's the go to now?

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

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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>Remember , unlike firefox and a few other browsers, Brave has tons of closed source code and

And your entire OS, too...

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

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Excellent resources.

Since the beginning, something about Brave and the advertising told me they were no good. Nice to have further confirmation