• Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      The new Mullvad browser is even better, and regularly maintained. But a little bit further down on the privacy end of the Spectrum and further from the useability end. Watch out for timezones, that one always gets me!

      • runningromeo@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Mullvad has a browser now? Sweet! I’ve been a fan of their no nonsense approach to VPN for a while now.

        • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Yeah it’s basically TOR browser without the TOR network. Created in direct collaboration with TOR.

    • Lukecis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Fr, people need to stop the lies that firefox itself is a privacy respecting browser, which it isnt- not since it was bought out years back.

      LibreWolf and Mullvad are great examples of Firefox Forks that are ACTUALLY privacy focused browsers.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    What is the aversion to FF? It is memory hungry, but not that much different than Chrome.

    • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For daily usage, and as long as you use uBlock Origin, Firefox has been perfect for me for the past 10 years. I don’t understand those who complain about it.

  • casey@dirtbag.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I switched to Arc recently and kind of hate myself for it, but it has improved my browsing experience too much to go back to FF.

    Stay strong out there.

  • Skkorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what’s up.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Appearently brave is the most privacy focused browser. At least according to this paper from 3y ago.

    https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

    Edit: guys I know that Brave is not the best browser and I wouldn’t recommend it, but I haven’t seen studies or in depth articles about technical details of privacy concerns.

    And I’m not being sarcastic, I wanna see them so I can make a more informed opinion.

  • topnomi@fedia.io
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’ve tried a bunch of time but I feel going back to Chrome.

    I’m currently trying or Oprah for the first time.

      • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Is Fennec on Android like that? Still developed by Mozilla, but has all branding, telemetry and firefox-account stuff removed (even comes with duckduckgo as default search engine)

        • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I think Fennec F-Droid is a straight re-compile of the official Android app with binary blobs removed. So technically it is the actual open source version. Firefox telemetry is open source (at least on the client side) so wasn’t in the scope of that, but there are certainly variants that remove that as well.

  • covenuz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Just wondering as a Mac user without much experience: how is Safari in terms of privacy compared to say Firefox?

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Brave + privacyBadger is about the best you can do. If you turn all the features on it anonymizes your plugins and screen res returns enough that you can’t be identified by a unique configuration.

    It supports TOR for private browsing natively.

    I don’t trust them more than Mozilla, but the do a better job at keeping my browsing habits out out the hands of my ISP and the sites I visit.

  • notatoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    how exactly does chrome not respect my privacy?

    and i don’t just mean “because it’s google and google is an ad company”. what specifically is it sending to some internet server that firefox doesn’t? both the firefox and address bars send what you type into them to a search provider. as near as i can tell, firefox’s committment to privacy is to say “we protect your privacy” while doing all the same stuff that chrome does.