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Need a solid daily driver browser that’s good for most things (piefed.social)
submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by hellerphant@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I am trying to get better with my privacy, and I specifically want to try and avoid big US tech where possible. I know they there are many people saying you should use multiple browsers for better privacy and all that stuff, but I’m also being realistic with myself - I just want a solid browser experience that has decent privacy and i can live with that for the most part. Not opposed to maybe 2 browsers, but I’d like one daily driver, especially for work.

I do a lot of social media management and am using the Steam backend daily as I work for a game studio. I need to use YouTube and Bluesky and all those things, so it needs to handle media.

I’m running Vivaldi at the moment after jumping off Chrome. I don’t need to use Chromium. I was trialing Orion on my Mac but I use a Linux machine at home, a windows PC sometimes at work, having something across all would be nice and once again I know that is not 100% privacy, but it’s better than the average user.

Advice would be super appreciate.

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[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

LibreWolf is a Firefox fork hardened for privacy. I suggest to disable the cookie and history deletion for it to be more usable. It has a more tradicional UI than Zen.

[–] hellerphant@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks for the info. I’ve seen Librewolf recommended a lot but also found a lot of threads of “normies” complaining it was a pain to use daily. I’ll give it a spin! 

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It needs a bit of fine tuning for daily use, but it's nothing cryptic: If you don't want to save all cookies, then you gotta add exception to sites you want to stay connected to (unless you are ok with having to login every time you enter a site). I think saving history is disabled by default, and this is quite inconvenient. You also gotta allow saving passwords if you want the browser to have them.

[–] hellerphant@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I use 1Password so I’m guessing Librewolf handles Firefox extensions? Should be fine there. 

I don’t mind logging in every time actually, but yeah I can take a look at those settings. 

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

Yes, Librewolf runs Firefox extensions just fine.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Oh, before "setting in", test out all the sites you need to use regularly, because of its hardened fingerprinting protection webgl and webgpu are disable, also canvas and other scripts, and I believe they completely stripped the browser DRM checks, so some streaming services won't work as well.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you don't disable the cookie autodeletion, it is indeed a pain to use.

[–] hellerphant@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

I will try it out this coming week and let you know. Appreciate the info!