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Which browsers are best for privacy? (privacytests.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Open-source tests of web browser privacy.

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[Edit Edit] - Brave Browser caught adding its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency trading sites - More in the comments 🔽 🔽 🔽

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, so there's that. Otherwise, it's just a hardened Firefox fork, and as such has the same catalogue of addons

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Awesome. Makes me wonder if there's still a reason to use Firefox over Librewolf.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I would never recommend any of these offshoots over stock. You can literally set it up the same exact way if you want, but still get same day security patches and updates.

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough!

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Only reasons if heard is faster updates if you use base Firefox (w/ arkenfix user.js). Also the styling (brand icons and such) for librewolf are detectable. Mullvad is better than librewolf for antfingerprinting.

[–] nick@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I switched to it a couple weeks ago from FF/arc. No issues so far, and I’m pretty happy.

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I assume Sync doesn't work for history and bookmarks if its not using the FF servers.