Privacy @lemmy.ml foremanguy @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Best browser tweaks for privacy?

Hello, always wanted to know the absolute best to have the most private (and secure) browser, need tips for android and linux. I think Firefox based browser are the best choice but i'm open to recommendations!! THX

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Any hardened version of Firefox, like LibreWolf, would be my main choice.

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- I wanna go a bit beyond, like I'm using arkenfox's user.js but it's not as complete as i would, and I'm using some extensions, and the main part that i would improve is my fingerprinting, any ideas? And for android, going to use Mull but do you have any recommendations?
  
  Extensions installed on any browser make your fingerprint more unique. For PC your best option against fingerprinting would probably be using n unmodified mullvad browser, and on android, mull, with the least extensions posible.
  
  I looked into this a while ago. It seems the best you can do is to try to look the most "average". All attempts to obfuscate details other than "average" make you stand out even worse.
  
  Seems like you have a better idea than I do about privacy so I'm probably not gonna be much help. However make sure that you use extensions that you trust or use as few permissions as possible because that also can be another vector where information can leak.
  
  Oh and there was a post on here sometime ago about a website that show what kind of information it can get from your web browser so you could use that to check how much info you are leaking on the web at least.
  
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- What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments?
  
  Nice off-topic comment. Pretty sure by now everybody is aware of that (and other posts) on the topic of using a license.
  
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This is a tough situation because the more changes to settings you make the more unique you will appear. Less is more in this case, libre wolf or Mullvad are both good Firefox based browsers with good defaults. My biggest recommendation to add is a cookie auto delete plugin, or if you dont need to keep anything logged in even better just have it delete cookies on shutdown.
- That's exactly right. A hardened fork of Firefox, enjoy.
  
  +1 on that. LibreWolf, use the compartments feature and clean cookies and history every time you close the browser. And you come a long way.
Spreading libre software will bring more privacy than micromanaging browser config ever will. Report issues to get defaults fixed and don't waste your life reinventing.
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Browse more with a TUI browser like w3m or elinks. A good website should be able to provide a decent UX even on these browsers which have too few features to exploit (namely no JavaScript). You could work it into a workflow like opening docs in a terminal split or setting one as your default browser in a TUI feedreader like Newsboat.

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