I want to switch to a more privacy focused browser, would like to hear what yall use currently and why.

Edit: I’m currently using edge.

Edit: Thanks everyone for your input. I have decided to go with floorp (a firefox fork) with betterfox. Here’s my decision process,

  1. Firefox based browser
    • To help with browser monopoly
    • I really like the sidebery extension
  2. I chose floorp instead of ff or other ff forks because of the ease of customization
    • I also tried zen browser but experienced a bug just from my short usage so I think it’s not mature enough for me currently, but I do like the project.
  3. Betterfox + extensions for better privacy settings
    • Ublock Origin
    • ClearURLs
    • Decentraleyes

Did not choose to go with LibreWolf, Mullvad etc because I’m worried about site breakages.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I swear this question comes up everyday in Lemmy 😅.

    Firefox, I just use Firefox because, it works, it has enough privacy measures, and everyone is looking at the codebase, something that cannot be said about most (if not all) forks.

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      Any issue with websites breaking? Since sites only care about chromium support nowadays

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        1 year ago

        I’ve had a couple sites break but idk if that’s because of Firefox or because of my privacy add ons.

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        1 year ago

        valid question, idk why would people downvote it

        broken websites on desktop are rare and not nearly enough to drive a browser change, but they usually fall into two categories:

        1. websites that “break” on purpose for no good reason when they detect it’s not chromium. Either avoid the site or change the user agent.

        2. websites that degrade some functionalities because they rely on newer features or on how things appear on chromium. They’re usually CSS breakages and do not affect browsing that much.

        Support for manifest v2 greatly outweighs these potential issues imo.

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        Domino’s pizza website is super flakey on Firefox (on mobile) but it will work if you refresh enough times