Browser Privacy¶
To see tor specifics see /tor.html
4.2 Browser Alternatives¶
Librewolf¶
Librewolf is a more “user-friendly” version of arkenfox which doesnt require any modification of your firefox client or user.js, and tends to work out of the box.
Brave¶
Brave browser is a very popular choice for “privacy” since most people arent aware of a certain incident. The brave browser was caught injecting their own affiliate crypto links into certain URLs without user consent. Here is the brave CEO’s statemement on the issue:
“The autocomplete default was inspired by search query clientid attribution | that all browsers do, but unlike keyword queries, a typed-in URL should go to the domain named, without any additions. Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly.
On top of this shady incident brave is still not a great browser, for example brave is a chromium based browser which means it is under the indirect control of Google. The monopoly of chromium needs to stop before we can see internet privacy become mainstream and achievable for anyone.
Chrome¶
If you care at all about privacy, you should never be using chrome, you should probably just uninstal the spyware if you have it.
Mullvad¶
4.3 Ads and Tracking¶
Advertisements almost rely on tracking you in order to give you advertisements that match your hobbies / interests / whatever else you do on the internet.
When it comes to preventing tracking like this a vanilla Ublock works perfectly. Out of the box UBlock origin also works with youtube!
NOTE: If you do not click the link provided above PLEASE make sure you install ****Ublock Origin**** and not Ublock. The latter is not safe.
4.4 Do Not Track (DNT)¶
Almost every browser has the option to enable sending a “DNT” request when getting a webpage, while this seems like an obvious win… theres nothing actually enforcing a website to respect this request, in fact it just makes your fingerprint more unique since an average user has no idea this feature even exists.
A better option is to leave both of these options OFF, so you blend in with the rest of the internet.
This is an example screenshot from firefox, these options may be different or not exist on other browsers.
Browser
Tracking Protection
Search Engine
Fingerprint Protection
Chrome
Basic
No
Firefox
Strong
DuckDuckGo
Yes
Safari
Moderate
DuckDuckGo
Some
Brave
Strong
Brave Search
Yes
Edge
Moderate
Bing
No
Tor Browser
Very Strong
DuckDuckgo
Yes
Vivaldi
Strong
DuckDuckGo
Yes
Opera
Moderate
DuckDuckGo
Some
DuckDuckGo Browser
Strong
DuckDuckGo
Yes
And search engines
Search Engine
Data Collection
Tracking
Ads
Encryption
Privacy-Focused
Default Option
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Bing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
DuckDuckGo
Minimal
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Startpage
Minimal
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Qwant
Minimal
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Ecosia
Minimal
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yahoo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Swisscows
Minimal
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Mojeek
Minimal
No
No
Yes
Yes
No