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The problem with generic advice like this is that it is invariably opinionated and unexplained. For example, what makes Firefox, Safari, and Brave ethical browsers but Edge and Chrome not? Firefox development has undergone plenty of unethical decisions, and I'm not sure what even a distant justification for Safari being 'ethical' would be.
> “Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed“. I have adopted this for almost a year now. Once I learned that it is possible to bypass Windows login, I thought that if the agent could get access to my browser with all cookies in, he could easily impersonate me in every possible corner of my digital life. So, no thanks. I live in a place where you can get your laptop stolen at any moment. So in my case, the…
You could run a portable browser in a portable sandbox stored on a VeraCrypt volume, so none of your browsing data is on disk at all.
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You could run a portable browser in a portable sandbox stored on a VeraCrypt volume, so none of your browsing data is on disk at all.
Thank you so much for the tip. I will try that.
Librewolf comes with an auto-updater exe which I would just rename. You can manually update it by grabbing the latest installer exe, extracting, and manually copying the librewolf folder across.
Sandboxie has a few things to configure but are mostly self-explanatory. Looking at breakout apps and file/folder permissions will be useful if you want to still be able to save to the local harddrive outside the sandbox.
Recommended Jitsu requires only Chrome or Chromium. Yet, same article strongly discourages Chrome. And Apple iOS does not have Chromium either. :-/
Jitsi works on Firefox just fine. https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/supported-b...
It is like they have an agenda.
The problem with generic advice like this is that it is invariably opinionated and unexplained. For example, what makes Firefox, Safari, and Brave ethical browsers but Edge and Chrome not? Firefox development has undergone plenty of unethical decisions, and I'm not sure what even a distant justification for Safari being 'ethical' would be.
Presumably, their privacy policies (it’s in the title of the article).