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What's your suggestion? Genuine question. I'm on Firefox.
Firefox.
Ahh, yes. The browser that tags every install with a unique identifier.
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No browser is immune to fingerprinting, or even a little bit hard to fingerprint.
Wouldn't Safari on iOS put your browser in a crowd with millions of other people?
No --- because fingerprinting techniques can detect subtle manufacturing differences in the underlying hardware.
Even identical models of iPhone have minor variations in hardware and configuration and will produce different fingerprints.
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If security is not that important, Firefox or Safari. If you care about security, Chromium.
Any widespread recent security issues that were only affecting Safari and Firefox? That sounds like scaremongering to me.
Yes, there was a big one for FF in Oct https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9680
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V8 is amazing.
Yeah but I should be able to swap in any JavaScript engine I desire or use one provided by the system. Browsers are far too bloated.
Playing Devil's Advocate, maybe browsers are still too incomplete. Once browsers are the operating system, everyone can simply speak Chrome and be done with it. The success of Electron strongly suggests both devs and users want to singularize on Chrome, so why not take it to the logical conclusion?
Chrome is the abstraction layer to WindowsMacOSiOSLinuxAndroidBSDx86ARMRISC-Vspaghettisoup.
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No browser is immune to fingerprinting, or even a little bit hard to fingerprint.
Wouldn't Safari on iOS put your browser in a crowd with millions of other people?
No. Not unless every other aspect of browser, many aspects of the computer, and many ways you can configure them were identical with every other user.
In fact, Safari narrows you way down all by itself.
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#27Use Firefox. Consumers need to wean away from spam companies.
No browser is immune to fingerprinting, or even a little bit hard to fingerprint.
True --- but incomplete.
Browsers can block known sources of advertising and fingerprinting code.
It's hard to produce a fingerprint when the browser won't load the code.
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#28What is with everybody suggesting this or that browser? They're all going to be fingerprintable. Using a less common browser just makes that easier... not that it will ever be hard.
You might get some relief from some tracking, including via fingerprinting, by using comprehensive ad and tracking blockers. Or you might not, since CDNs are still probably going to track you.
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Ah yes, Brave, the browser that highjacks websites to inject their own referral code, that's the right browser to use for privacy conscious people.
What's your suggestion? Genuine question. I'm on Firefox.
Fr, ignore these people and try Brave Browser.
I care less about privacy than I do an annoying Internet. There NO ADS with Brave Browser - like I just DO NOT SEE ADS anywhere on the Internet.
Anyone that has been using Chrome can't possibly care about privacy anyways and they can't know what I mean about ads online.
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Firefox.
Ahh, yes. The browser that tags every install with a unique identifier.
FF is too slow. Brave is where it's at.
I do wish I paid for Brave but again - I don't see ads online so I don't what they do with my information anyways.
I don't wonder about Google or Microsoft.