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what is actually the best "secure" browser? aren't both brave and duckduckgo ran by bigots? any people would recommend?
Just use Firefox with ublock origin. Maybe get a VPN if you're serious about anonymous browsing. There's rapidly diminishing returns in obsessing over privacy tools compared to changing your browsing habits.
Indeed. You have to consider your threat profile. Most data harvesting isn't aimed at you per-se, you're just in the target audience.
If you're just trying to be a responsible citizen who'se reasonably informed and likes their privacy. A decent browser, blocker, and VPN will protect you from 99% of casual grift & grime.
Unless you're planning something that'll get you assigned an Agent somewhere, in which case you should log off and not talk around electronics at all.
somewhat concerned that with the increasing rise of blatant fascism in the US the definition of a "threat" worth keeping an eye on will become a group me and most other cool left wing people will be included in
It's even worse than diminishing returns—the more privacy extensions and add-ons you install the more identifiable you are through browser fingerprinting
I'll second LibreWolf. And Mull, on Android.
Best browser I've ever used on Android was Naked Browser. Made by some random dude on /g/ and he was pretty damn funny sometimes. Worked perfectly on a 4 button android setup, extremely barebones but had most everything I wanted.
there's a reasonable argument for vanadium on Android as it can replace the system webview and reduce the attack surface. adblocking at the dns level is probably most effective anyway.
I don't disagree, only that I really don't like it. It comes as the default browser in GrapheneOS, and it's always the first thing I replace. It's too barebones for my needs.
yeah that's fair. they just have a reasonable point about addons increasing attack surface. so it comes down to your threat model.
I'm not saying you can't use Brave if that's what you really want to do and see no other viable options. I posted this specifically because of the take that it's "based" to "melt snowflakes" by choosing a browser specifically because it's ran by loud bigoted Web3 grifters.
but is brave good (for privacy) or is there something better i should use
It's terrible for privacy because it pretty much directly packages your browsing data for sale to third parties, which is another thing that edgy programming.dev chuds performatively "don't care" about.
well rip me ig lol
I need more information on DuckDuckGo being a milkshake duck, please
right now i am using firefox with the common privacy extensions people were talking about in this thread https://hexbear.net/post/96791?scrollToComments=false
specifically privacy badger, clearurls, ublock origin, decentraleyes, user agent switcher, and facebook container
You can prob leave out almost everything except ublock according to recommendations from the arkenfox folks
oh thank you i didn't know that
There's also NoScript for manual control over Javascript on webpages, and CanvasBlocker, which "allows users to prevent websites from using some Javascript APIs to fingerprint them."
pretty sure its just the most widely used thing with a couple of ok privacy addons. firefox with ublock and a vpn. you could go deeper but that probably increases the chance that you stand out. iirc just having too many addons installed can make you stand out
Waterfox probably.
I remember using waterfox back in the day when regular Firefox wasn't 64-bit yet. Good times