Advice Request Avoid These Browsers

[Ink]

After browsing r/privacytoolsIO these are my conclusions.

If you really care about "privacy and freedom", you may want to avoid the following browsers and also ditch Windows/Mac.

Brave

Chromium - Valid points are made here

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

• Microsoft Edge (Legacy, unsupported)
• Internet Explorer (unsupported)

Opera

Safari

Vivaldi

Consider using these instead:

Mozilla Firefox

Tor Browser

 

[Nagisa]

In short, don't use anything chromium based if you don't want Google to take over the internet.

 

[CyberTech]

Brave? really? wow

 

[Arequire]

Also don't forget to only use open-source software, otherwise you're just a slave to big business.

 

[codswollip]

un-googled-chromium?

Downloads for ungoogled-chromium

 

[WhiteMouse]

What about unmicrosofted edge?

 

[forgottenuser79643]

I generally find the individuals there to be quite "radical", but personal opinions about that aside. One of the comments I read, at this time of writing, did make a good point. And pretty much sums up my opinion and knowledge about the whole discussion to an extent.



I use Firefox myself, but for its customizability advantage it had back then years ago. Though, now the gap is getting smaller and smaller on that front, if it already hasn't been beaten in some aspects. And Mozilla making some questionable choices and not pushing their engine to where it needs to be in certain aspects... With that being said, I do hope they remain and one day give some proper competition back to Chromium browsers... The niche it currently serves can't even compare to its competition.

 

[Ink]

In short, don't use anything chromium based if you don't want Google to take over the internet.

Not only Google, but private companies in general.

Brave? really? wow

Brave has it's own Ad system in-place and whilst I am not against it, I posted this without bias. There are users who want true freedom without any commercial ties.

(I am a Brave browser user.)

un-googled-chromium?

Downloads for ungoogled-chromium

Check the link in the first post.

What about unmicrosofted edge?

What? Check the link in the first post regarding Chromium.

 

[Paul.R]

Soon we will be more and more restricted without the so-called privacy term. We are about to reach the age of money digitization. Do you really think about privacy? or a browser privacy? Look at Firefox ~100 connections on first start up, Google default engine...? Forget it...use what you like I'm with Vivaldi / Edge Chromium now ( security is more important now then privacy, some of us make payments, crypto wallet, etc.)

 

[Venustus]

Really only one option,TOR

 

[TairikuOkami]

Brave has it's own Ad system in-place and whilst I am not against it, I posted this without bias.

I have it disabled, I like the idea, since I do not even block ADs, but the implementation is just bad, it causes a terrible slow down (webpages load like 4-5 times slower).

Chromium - Valid points are made here

That is why I allow only port 443, I would never allow ports 5222 or 5228.

 

[blackice]

It’s almost like the internet wasn’t built for privacy.

 

[Templarware]

In short, don't use anything chromium based if you don't want Google to take over the internet.

So, are you saying that Google is present in Microsofts browser like if it was their own product? Then why does Google not want you to use Edge?

 

[cruelsister]

In terms of browser privacy/security one must also consider what a user can do to themselves by the addition of extensions (God knows Who or What actually codes them)

 

[Kongo]

Time to go back to the good ol' library instead of google.

 

[Nagisa]

So, are you saying that Google is present in Microsofts browser like if it was their own product? Then why does Google not want you to use Edge?

I assume you didn't even read the thing in front of you.

 

[Templarware]

I assume you didn't even read the thing in front of you.

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No one in their right mind will use Firefox just because it is the only not chromium. Firefox needs to make some innovations no justify using it.
If Google actually starts doing the things mentioned, then other browsers will move out of chromiumm.

 

[Kongo]

No one in their right mind will use Firefox just because it is the only not chromium. Firefox needs to make some innovations no justify using it.
If Google actually starts doing the things mentioned, then other browsers will move out of chromiumm.

You mean innovations like those?

Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy – Mozilla Security Blog

We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...

blog.mozilla.org

Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection – Mozilla Security Blog

Total Cookie Protection is a major anti-tracking advance in Firefox that confines cookies to the site where they were created.

blog.mozilla.org

Encrypted Client Hello: the future of ESNI in Firefox – Mozilla Security Blog

Background Two years ago, we announced experimental support for the privacy-protecting Encrypted Server Name Indication (ESNI) extension in Firefox Nightly. The Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension enables server and ...

blog.mozilla.org

They defenitely didn't stop improving Firefox just because they don't keep up with the Chrome updating shedule...

 

[Nagisa]

No one in their right mind will use Firefox just because it is the only not chromium.

Please, read the post before commenting anymore.

If you really care about "privacy and freedom", you may want to avoid the following browsers and also ditch Windows/Mac.

 

[Templarware]

If you really care about "privacy and freedom", you may want to avoid the following browsers and also ditch Windows/Mac.

And you need to ditch smartphones, smart TVs...
You basically need to ditch the internet. Edge with uBlock and DuckDuckGo is private enough for me.
I guess no one really cares, other than those people who live in the woods.