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15 Nov 2024, 5:26 pm

The following is a good article that discusses in brief, the different options available for those who are interested in a privacy focused experience when browsing the internet.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2260814/security-browser-comparison-which-is-the-best.html

There are Chromium based browsers such as the popular Brave browser, down to the less well known Firefox fork - LibreWolf.

Any of these options are worth a try if you want to easily and better resist fingerprinting and telemetry. Some of them seem to work very fast, even faster than more well known browsers, in my experience. 8)



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15 Nov 2024, 6:02 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
The following is a good article that discusses in brief, the different options available for those who are interested in a privacy focused experience when browsing the internet.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2260814/security-browser-comparison-which-is-the-best.html

There are Chromium based browsers such as the popular Brave browser, down to the less well known Firefox fork - LibreWolf.

Any of these options are worth a try if you want to easily and better resist fingerprinting and telemetry. Some of them seem to work very fast, even faster than more well known browsers, in my experience. 8)


I know someone that uses Brave. I like Firefox. There is a downside to lesser known browsers. They don't get the same amount of attention as major browsers. Updates are important in browser land. I would also recommend Opera, if you need a built-in VPN. I have never used Opera, but reports of it are impressive. I probably will experiment with it eventually.


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15 Nov 2024, 6:04 pm

Would you say that a lack of, or less frequent updates makes it not worth using lesser known browsers?



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15 Nov 2024, 8:23 pm

Gentleman Argentum wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
The following is a good article that discusses in brief, the different options available for those who are interested in a privacy focused experience when browsing the internet.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2260814/security-browser-comparison-which-is-the-best.html

There are Chromium based browsers such as the popular Brave browser, down to the less well known Firefox fork - LibreWolf.

Any of these options are worth a try if you want to easily and better resist fingerprinting and telemetry. Some of them seem to work very fast, even faster than more well known browsers, in my experience. 8)


I know someone that uses Brave. I like Firefox. There is a downside to lesser known browsers. They don't get the same amount of attention as major browsers. Updates are important in browser land. I would also recommend Opera, if you need a built-in VPN. I have never used Opera, but reports of it are impressive. I probably will experiment with it eventually.
I was a loyal user of Opera back when you had to pay to use it. There are things I liked about it.

Also, it was their own work then. The Opera of today is, I think, derived from Chrome.

For what it's worth, I often use Vivaldi, but it isn't particularly protective of privacy. At this moment, though, I'm using LibreWolf.


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15 Nov 2024, 8:24 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
Would you say that a lack of, or less frequent updates makes it not worth using lesser known browsers?


It seems to me that most people are not all that inclined to apply updates anyway.


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16 Nov 2024, 8:44 pm

kokopelli wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
Would you say that a lack of, or less frequent updates makes it not worth using lesser known browsers?


It seems to me that most people are not all that inclined to apply updates anyway.

I run a batch file that disables Firefox updates until I'm good and ready to try them. A Firefox update once disabled all my plugins while I was browsing - stuff like NoScript, an ad-blocker, and one that redirected the browser to less invasive, 3rd-party instances of certain websites. So much for security being better for updating promptly.