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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Try to disable telemetry.
What browser should I use on mobile? I use Librewolf on desktop since it runs fine, and the vertical tabs are great, and it looks nice.
On mobile though there’s a lot of problems with the browser space:
What other options are there?
Brave.
Safari
yeah lemme just pull out safari on android and linux for its insane fingerprinting protection and great content blocking support
Maybe somewhat later the Helium Browser (still not for mobile, in Alpha version), ungoogled Chromium, if not, Vivaldi, for all platforms, even as automotive app, (the only one)
https://github.com/imputnet/helium
IronFox, Fennec Fox
hmmm
i never get the performance part.
what the fuck are you doing where you can even notice performance differences?
nobody should use vanilla firefox. the extensions are the vital part of it
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Tbh firefox performs great and works for me, and its issues can be fixed with extensions and settings, both on desktop and mobile. I never looked for anything else myself. I also like to use a browser that is not chromium-based, I do not want google to have the monopoly.
maybe I am just not picky, but if you need more privacy than what can be achieved with a hardened firefox config you might be better off using TOR at that point.
Haha
Brave is like the ExpressVPN of browsers
You can stop it in settings just like any other browser. I still will use Brave as my choice of browsers.
I trust Techlore. How come you guys are so anti? Idc what the CEO talks about
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From Wiki:
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Should tell you everything you need to know.
I’d say being ‘privacy focused’ is just a stick to get non-tech savy/gullible people that want to protect their privacy to use it, without thinking about it twice. Personally, I believe there is 0% chance they don’t sell (or simply give) all data they can to Peter Thiel and Palantir.
…also to Facebook, also one of the investors. Brave has good privacy protections, but they are selective.
Any decent person wouldn’t use brave.
https://www.christiantoday.com.au/news/former-mozilla-ceo-ousted-for-opposing-gay-marriage-makes-comeback-with-new-internet-browser-brave.html this is who you’re supporting.
I tend to recommend Brave for the ones who aren’t technically savvy. For that, its good.
For me who is really into privacy, I’ve always felt uncomfortable with brave or any chrome based browser. So I go with TOR and LibreWolf
even tho most low level searches and recommendations gonna point towards brave as the private browser, all you need to just look at the options. its datafarming, its running in the background randomly, its an nftbro chrome.
People sadly believe so. Firefox, a few addons and you are good to go.
It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy.
The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill.
In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.
Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it.
No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it “worth it”. Stop recommending this pile of crap.
no, brave is just another crypto scam
I think you can disable the telemetry in the Brave settings. Maybe try that. Otherwise, if that doesn’t work, your best bet is something Firefox-based if you’re on desktop (hardened to the nines, with uBO, LibRedirect and an email aliasing service extension like SimpleLogin). If on mobile, there are other Webkit browsers like Snowhaze and Orion that are pretty good.
Brave is a scam.
I’ve never really had a comfortable feeling about Brave. I have no substantiating evidence, it just seems a bit squirrely. Besides the Tor browser, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and FireFox are the only acceptable browsers as far as I’m concerned, tho I don’t come down on those seeking an alternative to Google Chrome.
Any alternative to brave in iOS with adblocker? (I know, probably use another OS)
Vivaldi for iOS, it has an inbuild ad- and trackerblocker
Orion can use Chrome and Firefox plugins. Works great!
Far as I remember any browser in iOS is a scam anyways because Apple forces any browser in their platform to be based off of the same engine as Safari.
Yea, fuck webkit
AFAIK at least in the EU because have to admit also browsers with a different engine as WebKit. WebKit is same as Blink a fork from the KHTML engine by KDE, butway less advanced as Blink or Gecko, who outscore WebKit in modern webformats. This is why Apple don’t want other browsers which make Safari obsolete. Anyway, sooner or later Safari will be the next IE.
Sooner or later? They already are lol
Yes, but I won’t be so harsh
General practice, I do not use my phone as a compute platform. I realize others cannot do the same all the time. I do run firefox and a VPN which has an adblocker as part of it’s tool set.