• Matharl@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

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

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      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.

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 years ago

    “Firefox is bad because I got a virus one time and Firefox was my default browser therefore Firefox gave my computer a virus”- my brother

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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        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)

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          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.

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    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.

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    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.