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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Can someone please explain why not to use Brave browser ? (privacytests.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://privacytests.org rate Brave as the best browser.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I go pretty hard core while making sure it "just works". People will mention LibreWolf, but the fingerprint resistance causes too much breakage for me. I install uBlock Origin no matter what, enable every single filter except the language lists. I install Dark Reader and set it to a timed schedule which is comfy for me.

Then I install NoScript then enable "Temporary set top level sites to trusted" and enable media under the trusted tab. This fixed majority of the breakage, but you sometimes need to tweak it. You can just not use NoScript if it's too much of a hassle, uBlock Origin does basically everything you need anyways.

Also of course if you're using stock Firefox, make sure to turn off analytics and telemetry in the settings, go to about:config and set pocket.enabled (or something like that, idr) to false. Then I set my default search to duckduckgo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Awesome, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I've had good experience with LibreWolf, but disabling the resist fingerprinting is QoL compromise with privacy easily accomplished in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You can use ublock in advanced mode and replace noscript I think