Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Firefox is not safer. It’s just a different browser for people who don’t like to say ‘chrome’ in their mouths . It’s not really any different in the safety. It’s like how people think private browsing is private but it’s not. It’s just a comfort label.
Do you KNOW anything about online privacy?
Not using Chrome is a great first step since your browsing data isn't directly fed to Gogle. Not using Gogle as your search engine is just the next step. Just by doing this you have mostly ridden G*ogle of the ability to know what you've been searching, but they can still get around.
This is where using stuff like Firefox and Brave is important. Because these browsers come with built-in protection against trackers. But that's not just it. You want MORE. Next up is installing uBlock Origin. Set it up properly and congratulations you just became essentially invisible on the web. If that isn't enough then you're welcome to use TOR or a VPN to completely demolish all good attempts at tracking and spying. In fact, TOR alone would be enough for most users.
You fuckers always act like having privacy online is impossible or something when it's really not. All it comes down to is user tech literacy and knowing what do to. I don't want a browser that straight up listens on the mic to everything I say. NOBODY who knows shit thinks that "private browsing" is safe. NOBODY. That's why using Firefox is just one step and not all of them.
And you elitist fuckers love to shame others when it should be made easier for users. Shame on you.
That's a fairly simplified look at the whole picture though. Fingerprinting is a whole other beast, and Brave and Firefox and associated forks have varying and incomplete protections. For instance, only the Firefox-forked browser called Mull seems to effectively randomize data for canvas fingerprinting, whereas Firefox and Brave don't have protections against it at all. Saying you're essentially invisible on the Internet following your steps is pretty inaccurate. There's way too much money in this shit; web services are fingerprinting on everything they can.
I was talking about PC, it's just cherrypicking to assume anyone who mentions Firefox as a private browser doesn't refer to hardened Firefox. And for the record, I use Mull. Like I said, you just need to know your shit.
I'm not sure what this reply has to do with what I said in mine, to be honest. Your comments come off real condescending though, mate; not sure if that's your intent or not?