Hello everyone, I’m currently using Mullvad browser for web browsing without logging in to my accounts and Brave to login to my personal accounts. Lately, I’ve been thinking to replace Brave and use Firefox for my personal accounts. So, If I configure Firefox as recommended in the PG guide withou…

So, If I configure Firefox as recommended in the PG guide without Hardening, will it be equal to Brave in terms of privacy ? Unfortunately, no. Brave is designed with privacy as a core feature, integrating advanced tracking protection and ad-blocking capabilities by default. This is achieved thr…

First of, I think it is a good idea to keep a chromium browser in your drawer, if you dislike Brave (like me) for some reason, you can get Cromite instead. If your threat model does not include physical attack (I think most people don’t) then using PWA for your sites (if offered) with 1 profile / …

Please learn to make choices yourself. IMO You shouldn’t rely on strangers to micro-manage your privacy decisions.

[image] anon80779245: Please learn to make choices yourself. IMO You shouldn’t rely on strangers to micro-manage your privacy decisions. The journey to living in the woods with carrier pigeons begins with simple questions like OP.

Firefox also blocks trackers, it just doesn’t block ads ootb. Firefox also has nice fingerprint randomization features and lots of other cool stuff going on to protect your privacy all from settings exposed in the UI. I’m not sure if it’s possible to directly compare two browsers since there’s so ma…

[image] anon80779245: Please learn to make choices yourself. IMO You shouldn’t rely on strangers to micro-manage your privacy decisions What a ridiculous thing to say on a help forum specifically about privacy.

Unfortunately, no. I think you’ve misunderstood an important part of OP’s question, specifically: So, If I configure Firefox as recommended in the PG guide Both Brave and Firefox require a bit of modification out of the box, I think Brave’s defaults are slightly better in some ways, but neith…

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What a ridiculous thing to say on a help forum specifically about privacy.

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