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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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Another question about browsers :) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am in the privacy game for about 2 years now and I've become the go-to on privacy questions in my family (which makes me proud, cuz this means, I am not just this privacy nut that cant be reached on whatsapp :D). I was asked about a browser for Graphene OS. Clearly I recommended the one I use atm, which is Waterfox (was recommended once in this comm). The person who asked me is using bromite (which looks good too). After thinking about the recommendation, there is one open question:

Does it really matter which alternate browser you choose, if it is of course not something like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari (especially regarding the outcome in this comm, where someone compared Chromium and Firefox without any real conclusion)? Also doesnt it also come down to the plugins? Like, what difference does it make, if I use Waterfox or Bromite, if I also use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and maybe JShelter?

Hope too read a lot of your toughts on this :)

Update 1: Thanks for your replies so far. It's always amazing to get the greater picture on something. Good point with the plug-ins. Also I might give Vanadium another chance.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Excluding Chrome, Firefox and Safari means that you are now relying on some random developer to understand security and privacy and as a software developer for over 40 years I can tell you that this is a fools errand.

Don't get me wrong, the big three absolutely have privacy issues, but they can be mitigated in many different ways without compromising on security.

For example, you can force DNS requests to one of your choosing, you can run them in incognito mode, refuse cookies, run them inside user accounts without personal information, etc.

I tend to run individual instances of a browser in incognito mode and am very conscious of which tabs are open in which instance, so websites cannot steal information from other tabs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tend to run individual instances of a browser in incognito mode and am very conscious of which tabs are open in which instance, so websites cannot steal information from other tabs.

Isn't that the purpose of Firefox's multi-account containers? Compartimentalising cookies to prevent cross pollination?

Noob here, just asking honestly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I don't know. When I built this, several years ago, none of that existed.