Why Browser Wars Are Silly: Here's What Matters!

[@techlore]

Which browser(s) do you use?! What's your journey been like? Share your favorites below! ⬇ *Don't forget to check out the Techlore Patreon to keep our privacy content coming:* patreon.com/techlore *The mobile version of this video is finally live, check it out here!* kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWfNfmhjmZKdjsU

[@kingmongkut2202]

I am very excited for Orion by Kaggle; it is limited to Mac, but it seems to me like it is a WebKit version of brave that is just better than brave. I would love to know your thoughts.

[@blogdesign7126]

I bounce between Brave, Chromium, Firefox and Tor.

[@jondoe6608]

Soon it won't matter we will not have any choice in it when google adds the Environment Integrity API, The web won't work on anything that respects your privacy.

[@JXQU3]

Edge and vivaldi

[@ABCDEdu]

FireFox always [Containers are FIRE comparing to Chrome - before Chromium was my go-to] LibreWolf for ephemeral [switched from Brave due to resource consumption] aaaaand… OPERA & OperaGX for when I want to see the world burn :) What is your mobile setup tho? FirefoxFocus and OperaMobile are crushing it on dated Android, so Chrome is only left as an engine for WPApp's since no one really needs 100+MB big app for a one-page service that is opened twice a week :D

[@KZ1994able]

Word of the day: Ephermeral

[@fdabelstein]

"Try using it in a sentence" - or nine.

[@craneoDeFuego077]

Ephemeral (noun): lasting for a very short time

[@NoDeal733]

@@craneoDeFuego077this is the way.

[@magical_bean]

Ephermeral rift

[@pinchtwo654]

For real though I had to look it up I had no idea wtf he meant 😂

[@StiekemeHenk]

Wrong FireFox logo. That's the one for the FireFox family of products like VPN, Pocket, Monitor, Relay, etc. Not the logo for the FireFox Browser.

[@cysecgnz]

I mostly use Brave about 80% of the time, but I also use Vivaldi with some extensions simply because Vivaldi tab management is bar-none. I do have Mullvad on my system, but haven't really used it yet. Overall, really excited to see how some of these browsers evolve.

[@John7No]

surprised about 2 things 1. Using a chromium browser which inevitably gives control to Google and their plans to DRM the whole web 2. The url affiliation thing was not enough to question brave. For me it was not the incident itself, but the way they responded. They tried to pass it like it was a mistake, although such a mistake would probably never make it to the release unless it was deliberate. If they just accepted that they did it on purpose I would be ok-ish, but trying to brass it off really showed for me that they are not as private as they advertise. Same thing happens with their search engine where there is no documented usage of their bot crawler .

[@iampraneetverma]

Hardened firefox ❤ linux+android for everything and brave to install online web apps that are not normally available in linux like whatsapp, photopea, etc

[@techlore]

What's your hardening process on Android?

[@iampraneetverma]

@@techlore Starting with turning off data collection, changing search engine to searXNG, HTTPS mode only, enhanced tracking protection: strict mode, delete browsing data on quit, and keep close attention to site permissions and just one add-on installed which is "uBlock Origin" for awesome ad-free experience like on KZbin. And one setting in android's network setting for dns to private custom dns.

[@Nedlius]

how did you go about installing whatsapp on linux?

[@Semmelstulle]

I main Safari and Firefox is my non-login browser. My goal #1 is to avoid Blink/Chromium at any cost, which includes Electron. Privacy is 2nd to me

[@Lila_UrarakaYT]

Regular old Firefox is perfect for me, I don't do anything crazy with my browser, just streaming, searching, and reading the odd article here and there

[@ivan1445]

same the only thing whichis keeping me on firefox is the the out of the box pocket integration & containers

[@MadsterV]

I do crazy stuff all the time and Firefox has never failed me. He didn't actually name anything that doesn't work.....

[@Linux_zone]

​@@MadsterVsame

[@plasmatoday9950]

I don't like supporting Mozilla corporation

[@ivan1445]

@@plasmatoday9950 If not for Mozilla there would have been only chrome we need to give thanks and respect where it's due and yet not be blind hero worship or hatred towards an entire community

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

I use Firefox Nightly, mostly as my default, with kiwi browser, brave and tor for some other use cases. On desktop I use Firefox mostly with brave as a backup. I definitely always want to be fluent in a nonchromium option.

[@Criticalmaze]

Do headphone or iem reviews please

[@OcteractSG]

I use Firefox and TOR. Brave is on hand just in case, but I also use it for chess and some in-browser games. What I don’t like about Brave is that every per-site change I make to Shields is permanent unless I manually change it back. The extension I use on Firefox (which KZbin censors in comments) lets me change settings (e.g., allowing JavaScript to run on the site I’m on) and then forgets the changes when I close the browser unless I click an extra button to permanently save the changes. Temporary container tabs on Firefox also give it an edge up.

[@czdot]

I'm using both Vivaldi and Firefox. If I could stack tabs and easily configure keyboard shortcuts, I would have used Firefox exclusively. ARC is officially out now, but only for MacOS, though.

[@thesaigoneer]

Now using Brave and Firefox, both as a flatpak. FF has been hardened through ff profile (amazing no one complains about the telemetry Mozilla puts in the product btw) and Brave also required some tweaking, but minimal. Since I consider (personal opinion) both companies as shady my love goes out to true opensource products, like Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium etc. I will certainly put Mullvad through it's paces though. On mobile I use Brave, just bcs their sync works awesome. Vivaldi has the best mobile client for me, but he desktop browser has become a kitchensink. That's a pity. Thanks Henry, and yes tell us about your mobile journey.

[@miraclemanoj]

Lol use terminal and curl command

[@madthumbs1564]

Curious why script blockers or other extensions or user scripts / configurations aren't part of the equation. If you put Brave up against any other browser with ublock origin for adblocking - it loses. -(that mean's Brave's adblocker along with it's crypto BS is just bloat). With Brave's list of scandals; who would trust Brendan Eich? -How did Brave get so widely popular (one of those scandals).

[@natekmbowie]

Quick tip for the Linux users, your package manager will handle updates for browsers like Chromium. There's no issues with a lack of built in updaters if you're on Linux and want to try one that lacks an auto update feature on another OS

[@pinchtwo654]

I kind of wish he had mentioned that in the video. Chromium has been my secondary browser on all my Linux systems for probably about 6 or 7 years now. I understand why people on Windows or macOS wouldn't want to deal with the manual updates, but Linux package management makes Chromium a perfectly viable option on our end of the computing world. I think every distro I've ever used had it in the repo.

[@ExpertManOfficial]

I only use 2 browser: Librewolf and Vivaldi. Currently I use mostly Vivaldi then Librewolf, just because...I like its features and its UI! But Librewolf I use as well....not so much now, but before I discovered how amazing Vivaldi is, Librewolf was the most browser I used to. Brave.......holy f**k Brave Rewards sucks in my opinion. Crypto? No thanks. I want a browser without any of those suspicious stuff. And yeah, would be cool to see a video from you where you would compare differences of Librewolf&Mullwad Browser. Like, which one is better? What the other one can do while other can't? Please do a video about it. Thank you in advance :-)

[@Alex-sn4ql]

I use Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox and Brave browser in parallel. And I agree with your conclusion to use multiple browsers in parallel.

[@Wild_Cat]

Librewolf

[@lonekid9286]

Instead of using multiple browsers, I use LibreWolf with 7 different profiles, making sure all of those have different fingerprints. 1 profile is for random browsing that automatically clears data on exit. Other 6 profiles store data persistently. Also, I kept Vivaldi (as a Chromium based alternative) just in case anything doesn't work on LibreWolf (based on Gecko).

[@techlore]

Definitely a unique one! Sounds like a nightmare for my workflow, but glad this works well for ya

[@balloontune1769]

@@techlore yeah it is a nightmare since loading a single profile loads other in background and drags down the performance

[@ABCDEdu]

@@balloontune1769 wait, what? How so? Can you provide the data/surs?

[@lonekid9286]

@@balloontune1769 I don't notice any performance issue. Profile windows load in a snap.

[@lonekid9286]

@@techlore Well, not really. Yes, setting it up is complicated and very annoying. May take an hour. But once it is set up, the workflow is smooth.

[@user-gf9bk2xs8y]

Don't want to be dramatic, but Edges side bar changed my life. And spilt screen mode. Amazing

[@YaniX_3]

i use firefox with betterfox and the materialfox plus theme and it's just perfect, works fast, everything just works and i really like it. i do have brave installed as well and librewolf and ungoogled chromium just because it's always good to have more than one browser.

[@wlonsdale1]

You know Google owns firefox, right?

[@hyperdreamsurfer9141]

I like this kind of video, explaining how and why someone might change their security tools for their specific threat model. I tend to not have the time to read up on all the features of these apps, so this is very helpful.

[@elgonococogranuja]

I'm currently testing out 4 browsers on android 😅 i know it is overkill but honestly can't decide. Mostly using Brave for (almost) everything and DDG for images search. On desktop i'm all in on Firefox with some helpful addons like one that lets you customize and toggle off youtube options

A few years ago I switched from Chrome to Brave and I am very satisfied. Works perfectly on Android, Linux and Windows.

[@JamesQHolden]

For me its brave

[@stalkerscarface]

Weirdly I had issues with some sites on Brave specifically that I didn't have on Librewolf that I kept as 2nd backup option. I couldn't log into ProtonMail on Brave few days ago, althought I just tried it and it works fine. But a few minutes ago I tried downloading custom ROM from devuploads and I kept getting errors on Brave, tried Librewolf and it worked. I use exact same filters so I don't see why I kept getting errors on Brave. Nevertheless, I still prefer Brave because I see them actually giving community what they want. Now you can add custom filters on Android as well, which wasn't possible not that long ago. They have their own search engine, other services as their source of income. They have much more going on for them than Mozilla ever had.

[@b.h.8137]

I'm just about to revamp my whole phone and PC setup in the name of privacy (still doing the research about it), so I'd love to hear about your mobile browser setup.

[@gustavofigueiredo1798]

Me too! I supporr this!

[@rigierish3807]

For mobile, Brave is the best browser because it blocks by default fingerprints and considering you can hardly install extensions on your phone with Firefox, built-on extensions are pretty much you only way. For the setup on Brave, you can aggressively block every fingerprints, I didn't have any broken sites due to that, despite what it says. You can block all cookies but bear in mind depending on the site, you want some cookies to exist, so just block manually only cookies cross-sites and for the ads, you can aggressively block them. No script is also an option that for me, is by default now, but some people may not like it as this one will definitely break most sites. However, what's great is that you can always unblock it per site, so if one site is too broken, you can disable it.

[@userharrisel]

On my M1 mac, currently using Firefox for ephemeral stuff and Brave for signed in accounts (mainly youtube). Somehow I’m using Safari for signed-in accounts also because Brave is choppy on M1 chip. On iOS, everything is done on DDG browser except internet banking, that is on firefox or safari (sometimes)

[@ekinteko]

If privacy isn't a concern, the best browsing experience is probably Safari on Mac/iOS. It's just so darn efficient. Google Chrome is so bad these days, it's very very different to Brave Browser. Firefox has periods of "it's okay" to "it's very good" in the past 20 years. It's no longer very efficient so I think it works better as a privacy focus product. There are certainly better browsers out there for privacy, but they have compatibility issues. I don't see people needing to use Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, or the other weird niche options. Most people only use ONE browser. However they should be using TWO. And depending on their use case perhaps THREE. I think having four (or more) browsers is pointless though.

[@LLPOF]

There are only 3 browsers available today 1) LibreWolf 2) Ungoogled Chromium 3) Tor

[@majeedsorbujane458]

Brave? Mullvad Browser? Dencentr?

[@prism5199]

I'd like to hear about your mobile journey! 😊

[@FengLengshun]

There's also something like Ferdium, which is useful for just having your accounts logged in, in a containerized setting. Though most of them don't have extensions, and looking for one with extensions on Linux led me to Wavebox which is paid if you want more than 1 extensions and 2 cookie containers. I wish Ferdium could just have uBlock and Tampermonkey, that would have been enough tbh

[@laarsss]

I'd like to see your mobile configuration, especially iOS :)

[@Narutoshi]

I want a video that you explain your mobile browser journey :D

[@kizzume]

I eventually switched to using Edge as my primary browser. I occasionally check things on Chrome or Firefox for various reasons, but my main is Edge.

[@fredericgodin5723]

Je le trouve bon Edge

[@Volnas97]

Finally someone whose browser journy was/is about as complicated as mine. I feel like I've tried almost every browser, there is/was, before finally deciding on: PC 1: Vivaldi (85%, mostly because of awesome customisability), Edge (for work/school, so about 10%) PC 2: Brave (70%, though I might switch this one) Edge (30%, mainly for their Application Guard feature, that sandboxes it) and every now and then DuckDuckGo browser

[@Keyshooter]

kinda the same actually, after mullvad was announce my two browsers are FF and mullvad browser

[@kingkarl4932]

Please show the journey on mobile

[@Mojo_DK]

I use librewolf with ublock origin on medium mode. I use librewolfs multi-account containers to separate different things like Google stuff, banking, e-mail, online shopping, streaming, college, other accounts and so on. Librewolf deletes all cookies etc whenever I close it but I have whitelisted some websites to stay locked in (but I try to keep that list as short as possible). For everything else I just use my bitwarden extension. As a VPN I use the Safing SPN. I feel really safe with my setup. On special occasions I use the tor browser...but that rarely happens.

[@Gumgumnopistol-tc3xf]

Edge is my desktop browser just because i cant uninstall it

[@craneoDeFuego077]

Firefox will always be my go-to browser.

[@vermasaksham5]

Mostly I use Firefox and Safari however, I do have Brave installed just incase. For most of my use cases I'm very happy with Firefox since I own a macbook and an iphone, I stick to Safari for most of my work in my iphone. Safari works the best on iphone anyway other browsers are basically Safari. Plus it also works very well keeping Apple ecosystem in mind. I'm so gonna install FF once actual FF arrives in iPhones. What I like the most about FF is the PiP window which has it's own controls built-in which is way better than in any Chromium browser (in my experience). Not to mention the security that we get with FF.

[@HaryanviKashmiri]

have you heard of orion browser?

[@QuantaSolace]

I prefer Brave, but at the same time I want to get away from the Chromium monopoly. Orion is webkit based but it's in beta and is a little buggy. It's also Mac only.

[@bforbeta]

Firefox is a fantastic browser, but it's not worth the trouble if it's incompatible with my day-to-day work and activities.And, in my opinion, there is no such thing as an all-in-one solution [the so-called ecosystem]. Different tools are required for different activities.

[@gustavofigueiredo1798]

I'd be interested to hear about your mobile journey!

[@RockawayCCW]

I've been using Brave for KZbin and Firefox for everything else. If Mulvad is available for Linux, I'll give it a try.

[@Bits4you]

firefox is good for me and has been for over a decade. I have used Mullvad and see myself switching over bit by bit. mobile browser experience would be a good video if you were to make one.

[@muereelkin]

Edge it’s maybe de worst browser i ever try in my life, and it is worse when act like spyware (every chromium browser is basically a spyware) Firefox is 90% for me, sadly for my work i need to use teams over web, and the only browser that works with that is the horrible ms edge

[@laurencefraser]

... You never used Internet Explorer, did you? hehe.

[@micahpants]

I definitely want to see a video on your mobile journey

[@lucieshevroy]

Yo its crazy! I stumbled across an your channel while looking up Tor! So happy for your sucess of this channel and your setup is super legit! Congrats and all the best :]

[@theovanveen975]

Harden Firefox , Brave and Tor Browser . What for browsers do you use on your smartphone

[@ondrejsoukup8376]

I use Edge for Facebook, Chrome for KZbin and google services. Safari for pretty much everything else. (I do not use Windows/Linux.) I have tried Firefox and Brave too. And they are really good too. Would like to see info about mobile browsers you use.

[@OpenEnjoyer]

Personnaly i just use classic firefox on desktop and android because i dont want the only real concurrent of chromium die but i think i will soon change to librewolf or hardened firefox

[@redds7]

I am no fan of any browser wars, i am always recommending brave but personally i am strugling with firefox, librewolf, brave and somehow safari.

[@rajmir1169]

thanks for this video & I found it when I was searching for a browser to work alongside with my brave browser

[@MarkHobbes]

I just use Firefox because it's one of the only browsers that allows you to disable video and audio autoplay natively while all Chromium-based suck and are unable to do it because Google itself removed the flag that makes this possible from the Chromium core. It doesn't exist anymore. All other browsers just followed Google's standard, even the ones who say the do stuff differently like Brave and Edge 😂 Just can't deal with Chromium-baseds and their insecure extensions that tries miserably to disable automatic autoplay and fails massively 😅

[@jonathantheyorkie]

3 words that could ruin the internet as we know it: Web Environment Integrity

[@danmar007]

All wars are silly.

[@bionicbison05]

I was on my way to the comments to explain my workflow, but after watching the rest of the video, you did so for me! Brave for staying logged in + keeping a history for research projects etc. where that’s genuinely useful, and Mullvad for pretty much everything else.

[@fhreire]

What's anything else?

[@bionicbison05]

@@fhreire random searches, links people send me etc.

[@Monthii]

yes, please show your mobile setup!

[@giomari4246]

I currently only use 2 browsers. Google Chrome for my work since my work email is deeply tied to Google, and Firefox for my personal usage. I tried Opera but, it just doesn't stick to me like gum. Tried Vivaldi and I'm much more overwhelmed in using it rather than Chrome so, I ditched it. Brave is kinda good except that, yes, for privacy concerns, the sync of bookmarks is only made by scanning qr code but, as a person who loves syncing almost everything between gadgets, I decided to stick to Firefox and Chrome

[@penultimatename6677]

Privacy and security is number one for sure. Another issue is rendering. A page faithfully rendering CSS, JavaScript and responding accurately with Ajax. Safari is terrible in this regard. Microsoft browsers also had this issue but now less so with Edge. I find Firefox to be number one in this area. Brave is excellent in all regards.

[@penultimatename6677]

I might add my dismay with how phone app versions are so different from the desktop. From settings, bookmarks, etc

[@muizzsiddique]

I use IceRaven and Kiwi Browser for my phone because extensions, and a looser LibreWolf on desktop for 99% of the things I do (Edge for the few things that won't work on Firefox). I used to use Tree Style Tabs with Simple Tab Groups add-on, but TST kept screwing with my tab muting addon and STG's database kept failing on me, so I'm basically using LibreWolf vanilla.

[@muizzsiddique]

Oh and LibreWolf is the default browser for Steam Deck, so there was nothing to change there.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah the only alternative I can find to kiwi browser for desktop extensions is Firefox nightly although it requires a fairly complicated one time sequence of events to create custom profiles or whatever. But I still require kiwi because it's the only desktop extension that I can get bypass paywall to work with it. I am a little alarmed at the lack of updates sometimes and it has some annoying quirks like the microphone never working on the widget on almost all of my phones. For some bizarre reason the microphone only works on the widget for kiwi on my Pixel 3 which no longer gets updates. I have like six Android devices and that's the only one where the widget works properly But I do like that the kiwi widget is basically minimalist and doesn't have any colors. The Firefox widget is bulky and doesn't fit in with my My themes typically.

[@muizzsiddique]

@@michaelcorcoran8768 Give IceRaven a shot, it's what I use as a Firefox alernative that supports desktop extensions.

[@AtPlume]

I wish the Firefox people would find other and better argument than basically: _"It's not Chromium based."_ I use it. But I need more than this. I want to like Firefox but Mozilla pisses me off. *I'm sorry but stuff like PWAs are genuinely important to me* and _NO,_ I don't want to use multiple browsers just to get that function! It's annoying! If Mozilla is willing to die on the dumbest of hills like, not implementing PWAs, so will I! ...lucky for them I can't find anything else that I like. I love Safari, *sue me,* it's simple, looks and feels amazing, works really well. But it's also locked down, extension support is awful and it's not cross platform. So.. Orion! I LOVE ORION! It's amazing on my Mac, but I want it on my Android. I don't like Brave, everything in their marketing and so on screams tech-bro bullshit to me and want nothing to do with it, I can't trust them. I tried Vivaldi and I just didn't like it, I can't even put my finger on why, it's really frustrating! I wish Firefox would feel as smooth as Chrome does. And I wish it was as beautiful. And had actual, baked in PWAs support. But I refuse to use Chrome out of spite for Google and out of principles, so I'm stuck in my Stockholm syndrome with the fox. Web browsing sucks. :(

[@oscs4556]

I use Firefox, brave and Tor myself. Firefox has telemetry, pocket and onboard etc stripped out by my Nixos configuration.

[@duser]

What do you think about firefox's multi-account containers? I've been using it on and off recently and i kinda like it. i just wish one of the containers could be set to automatically clear cookies on exit.

[@marstedt]

Win7x64 with 2023-07 updates - "LibreWolf has stopped working" on every startup and shutdown. Firefox and Brave are fine.

[@AndrewBoraas]

I mean i just dont know why i should stop using chrome with a vpn and a bunch of the basic privacy extension

[@ChrisM243]

Any chance you might cover the Kiwi browser on Android? Since it is one of the very few that can fully use the Chrome addons on mobile.

[@CMG78]

I stick with Firefox because it does not use the Blink rendering engine. If everyone uses blink devs will only code for it and use features that are not available on other engines than we are back to the bad old days of IE and Trident

[@RockTheCage55]

Well if your taking for anything i use a WIDE variety of browsers because i'm a web developer :). But for my own use mostly brave and a little bit of librewolf. The only thing that i HATE about librewolf on the mac is its a pain everytime its updated because the librewolf project (understandably) doesn't want to purchase a apple developer license so it is kind of a pain the update (i use homebrew primarily)).

[@PwnZ3R0]

Yes mobile browser

[@maple_twig]

I'm currently using Brave for browsing and private Safari windows for logged in services.

[@johnsantos2360]

What I have now... CHROME 2% usage BRAVE 8% usage FIREFOX 90% usage VIVALDI 2% usage EDGE BECAUSE WIN 11 HAS IT 0.1% I like image search I THINK I WILL TRY EPIC AND ARC I WILL GET INTO MULLVAD in a while

[@FocusBeDrifting]

yeah show me ur mobile configg brooooo

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

Now google is trying to drm the internet.

[@robertallan4489]

Many speak about the 'differences' between browsers but, no one addresses what the major differences are and their impact good or bad. Anyone care to explain the important differences and their impact. For myself, I am perfectly happy with Google Chrome. Why shouldn't I be? Please answer that question. Thank you.

[@cori1302]

Yes I would like to hear about mobile browsers, android, etc

[@crossscar-dev]

I use firefox 99% of the time. I have chromium installed because I'm a developer and I have to test my code on more than one browser. I am really just waiting for arc to come to linux tho.

[@itsElysian]

Brave is currently the fastest and most private chromium-based browser, it's a combination between Chrome on steroid + Firefox.

[@nightking8490]

Fastest is edge. Most private is brave in chromium.

[@NeptuneSega]

Fastest is Edge

[@ghosthunter0950]

Great video, I think i'm gonna try out the mullvad browser. Really looking forward to a video on libre wolf and arkenfox!

[@wisequigon]

it's brave fault that it switches youtube video quality? i don't have this problem on Edge...

[@musikkimies]

Great video. Could you talk more about ephemeral vs non-ephemeral uses? I'm guessing the latter is for things like KZbin, email, etc where you don't necessarily have to enter login info everytime (where convenience and speed is important), and the latter is basically anything else -- stuff you don't Google/Facebook/whatever following you around with. Close?

[@farouqstray1411]

You guessed it

[@wsmoran]

Brave is what I use for most of my browsing. Mostly because of the balance of security, privacy, ad-blocking, and convenience. I occasionally use hardened Firefox (though have been playing with and considering switching to Mullvad). This is mostly when I want to do something with increased privacy at the expense of convenience, but don't wanna take the time to do configuration in my Brave settings. Vivaldi is in my rotation for professional use, so I can compartmentalize in a separate browser. I could very easily use any other browsers here. Nothing special about Vivaldi features that made me pick it here. Chrome is exclusively used for a KZbin channel I run with a separate account that is exclusively for that channel. Nothing is done in Chrome other than manage that channel. The only websites it ever visits are KZbin and KZbin Studio...this will likely be swapped with a different browser eventually

[@radanju3]

iAmLucid has challenged you to a Social Media Detox day which is tomorrow. Will you take on the challenge?

[@John-yy4kc]

On my Macbook Air, I use BRAVE for all and anything Google and Firefox for anything else.

[@ceescorner]

I am currently trying out many browsers to figure out which is best for me. I am trying to get away from Chrome and google.

[@ajalthomas5070]

heard about FLOORP

[@richardshalla]

I always enjoy your knowledge and sensibility. Keep up the good work.

[@1dK628]

Tor is untraceable but pretty slow and is usually used for illegal activity’s via the hidden ****

[@Mega_Casual]

Thanks for the great info. Do you have a link to that webpage that shows side-by-side comparisons of browsers like you show in this video? Thank you.

[@stanthebamafan]

I pretty much only use Brave. I’m privacy-conscious, but not especially tech savvy. I just wanted a simple browser that I can set and forget. I like that Brave works across all my devices, and that it uses chromium so there shouldn’t be problems on almost any website.

[@leth_5016]

Firefox all the way

[@rejointrident]

you should give vivaldi a second look. you went into it in a negative mindframe. take your time.

[@velvetvideo]

Vivaldi and Firefox. Security? ..might try Tor. Keyboard warrior? Nyxt.

[@stayhardHAHAH]

I just use safari with ad blockers and etc

[@gustavofigueiredo1798]

What is the best way to download these browsers?

[@BreakerBreaker1-9ine]

Take a shot every time the word “ephemeral” is said in this video.

[@johnsantos2360]

EPHEMERAL meaning temporary or momentary volitile and shortlived

[@lvill3633]

I think, you are better of hardening your own firefox- instead of waiting for some group to release updates etc.

[@redeyesdrogon786]

This wasn't just a video; this was an open break up video for the Techlore-Firefox relationship. Techlore is the browser heart breaker 💔

[@Bludersbunch]

I am almost exclusively on Android and for that its Vivaldi. Its faster than anything else I have tried, mainly Firefox and Brave. Plus Vivaldi is leading all browsers with their support and presence on decentralized Mastodon social media.

[@encycl07pedia-]

Vivaldi has the worst community ever, even if it's the best overall GUI desktop browser. I hated the mobile app.

[@reduxflakes]

I find the Vivaldi community friendly

[@JXQU3]

​@@encycl07pedia-how

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@reduxflakes They're very friendly if you have absolutely no critiques of the browser whatsoever. I got harassed in the forums for pointing out flaws and then banned when I downvoted a vitriolic reply. I'm not even joking. The mods are worse than Reddit ones.

[@Grap3_S0da]

Here is my problem. Firefox is the only browser engine that competes with chromium besides webkit. I am not sure it's good for the world to have so little diversity on the market. If google decided to cripple open source chromium or force a change on the browser landscape like Manifest V3 then we would all be screwed if the only engine was chromium based. This is why despite there being good alternatives like mullvad or librewolf I continue to use stock firefox. Why instead of using mullvad VPN I use mozilla VPN which is really just pretty much mullvad VPN on the back end. I think we as a community who care about privacy need to make sure there is diversity out there that competes with chrome. There are situations where firefox doesn't meet my use case. In those cases I do tend to use Brave as my chromium replacement. for really private stuff I tend to use tor browser. So I guess my setup is like 90% firefox 10% brave and 1% tor browser. I will also say I don't do much firefox hardening beyond adding ublock and a few toggles. I like to have all my logins saved between sessions and I tend to sync between my devices for convenience. I use firefox containers to keep profiles separate between say my shopping and google account separate.