Me, I have a low threat model so I mainly try to stay away from proprietary stuff when possible (Chrome, Edge ect) I use an eclectic mix of browsers.

I use Vivaldi (I know it’s not entirely FOSS but I like the customizability of it), for my amnesiac browsers I use Firefox Focus on Android, and LibreWolf on PC, and for when I want as much anonymity as possible I use Tor with Orbot active routing traffic to Switzerland.

I used to use Brave Browser a lot because I like the user interface but I kinda got turned off by all the crypto stuff they’ve been peddling. And as far as I know, Bromite hasn’t been updated in quite some time (please elighten me if I’m wrong about that I’ve been out of the loop for a while) , and I was weirded out by the developer’s statement “I’ll get around to it sometime.”

Mull is great but very slow to search imo, when I search for something it takes a long time to load. Or it takes a long time to load a website. It could be internet speed but other browsers work just fine,and I’ve tested Mull on other WiFis.

I sometimes also use DuckDuckGo but the search results are so bad that I just find myself searching google to find what I want. No offensive if anyone uses those I personally just haven’t found much use out if them.

So what browsers do you use for privacy and security?

Edit: Sorry for the long post and edited for clarity.

  • ztb@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    firefox on everything I use. no need for anything else. always been a fan of mozilla

  • kestrel7@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    I use Brave and I actually really like it, but I don’t recommend it to other people because the crypto shit is frankly kind of embarrassing. It takes a fundamentally good piece of software and makes it feel scammy. I wish they would figure out a better business model, but it’s not like I have any ideas.

    I’m comfortable just turning all of it off in the settings, but I don’t feel comfortable recommending it to people who are less technical than I am because I can already tell they’ll be like “You said this was supposed to be more secure why is it trying to sell me crypto”

    EDIT: Still, though, ultimately whenever I have to use anyone’s “regular” device without adblocking and everything I’m shocked at how annoying the internet is, so Brave is doing its job haha.

  • Warboss Wario@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    LibreWolf as my main and Brave for logging in to more disposable stuff.

    Brave search is my main search and using Duckduckgo if I don’t find what I’m looking for.

  • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Librewolf on desktop, Mull (and Fennec) on android. If some important site is broken, I have some chromium based backups without any modifications, which I wipe every now and then.

    For Librewolf there are a few interesting privacy addons, most importantly Font Fingerprint Defender. It scrambles the list of installed fonts on the system, so if websites analyze those in order to track you, they will detect you as a new unique user every time you visit their sites.

  • Parsnip8904@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I used to use bromite until yesterday when I discovered that it has been abandoned by the main dev. One of the contributions is keeping the browser patches alive in his own repo but not under the bromite branding.

    So currently I’m test driving Mulch which includes vanadium and bromite patches. My backup is trusty Fennec :)

  • Cambionn@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m using FireFox on PC and Fennec on mobile. I refuse to use Chromium-based browsers because I refuse to coöperate with Google pushing to monopolise the making of internet standards. And to be honest, I haven’t had a single real issue yet from not using it.

    I use Brave Search for searching because it has it’s on crawler, has pretty good results, and despite it saying it’s introducing adds, I haven’t seen any yet. I only don’t like that for images, it just opens Google or Bing with the querry forwarded, but at least they are clear about that they do that.

    Browser and search engine choice is only a tiny part of browsing securely and privatly tho.

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Firefox on desktop and Android. Plus a bunch of add-ons of course. Never switched away from it, especially not for Chrome.

  • Gourd@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I use Firefox Beta on Android because it lets you use arbitrary extensions unlike the stable version at the moment. It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but it means that in addition to uBlock Origin on mobile (the killer app of Firefox Android IMHO), I’ve also got Redirector set up to redirect all visits to Imgur/Reddit/sigh Twitter (if I have to) to the proxies out there like LibReddit or Rimgo so I don’t have to log in or be tracked at much. (There’s an extension called LibRedirector that gets recommended that automates the process better, but it’s really flakey in my experience.)

    Otherwise just got all the usual security settings turned up.

  • avantgeared@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    What is a FOSS browser? I use Waterfox and Pale Moon, sometimes Firefox and scrupulously avoid Chrome and Edge.