• crystal@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I myself use Firefox on my PC on Mull on my phone.

    Privacy Firefox Browsers like Mull or Librewolf tend to be very agressive when it comes to protecting privacy.

    For example disabling WASI may remove some attack surface, but it also makes some useful sites (like photopea.com) completely unusable. (Also some sites like Instagram don’t work for reasons I don’t know.)

    I don’t want to recommend a browser to non-powerusers which can’t open many popular sites. (There’s a reason people don’t recommend Tor.)

    Using unmodified Firefox makes a lot (but not all) of these sites usable. But to make pure Firefox privacy respecting takes a lot of tweaking, which I do not expect a non-poweruser to do. Making Firefox less prone to fingerprinting is practically impossible without using a (usually overtly aggressive) preset like Librewolf.

    I think that for non-powerusers Brave offers a near ideal balance between privacy and usability, meaning feature availability and websites working properly.

    (Why am I focusing on non-powerusers? Because if you’re an actual poweruser you don’t need some random guy’s opinion on which browser you should use.)