Personally, I think worth mentioning recommendations need to make a return to the site, at least to certain categories. Being unwilling to guide people when it comes to options that are less than perfect out of the box seems to be holding us back, when the reality is that most people would be far better off using a browser like Librewolf, provided they understand the potential implications, over Chrome, Opera, or even plain Firefox.
Educating users is something we have the luxury of doing here, yet there is this notion that for a product to be secure it must only be able to operate in a secure way. Demanding that developers make their products more secure and informing our readers how to do things more securely is not a zero-sum game, we can actually do both of those things…
If it were up to me, we would list in order:
- Recommendations:
- Mullvad Browser
- Brave
- Honorable Mentions:
- Librewolf
- With a note about the inconsistent update mechanisms.
- Arkenfox
- With the current notes about installation.
- Zen Browser
- With a note about its active development.
- Librewolf
I think it would be a big disservice to only list the first 2 browsers, when we have the full knowledge that many people simply will not follow that advice.