If you want to know which browsers do or do not respect your privacy, check out the site below. They put a wide variety of desktop and mobile browsers through a battery of tracking and other privacy tests. Click on each test for more details.
I post this site every year or so, which is why I wasn't surprised about the recent news regarding Chrome "incognito" mode. It's unfortunate that it took so long to be widely reported.
On my phone (Android) I use Chromite, a privacy-hardened fork of Chromium. It's not on the above site, but it's predecessor Bromite was and had received top marks.
@voltronic what are the benefits of librewolf? I use firefox currently
@sphyrnid
It's much more locked down. Look at the test results. They're right next to each other.
@voltronic interesting, I'll have to try it!
@voltronic firefox focus is a good android browser focuses on privacy and security over anything else
no frills when it comes to settings either
a good browser to set as your default one for opening URLs via Social media it'll wipe everything after you use it
@voltronic What do you think of the Brave browser?
@JazzCrafter
It's a good browser that I used for a while, but I was never a fan of the rewards program even though it's opt-in.
Once this news came out, I stopped using it.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/
@voltronic
I just downloaded the librewolf
Thanks for this.
I'd like to draw people's attention to the unbroken string of green checks under Brave.
@mcfate
Lots of good results for Brave, yes. Until you get to cross-session tracking.
Mm, in contrast, Librewolf is not only based on a worse browser, it belongs to GNU and that's a complete deal-breaker.
The FSF can go and pound sand.
Mullvad Browser lookin pretty good...I'm still using it as my general browser for non logged in services (web searching and clicking on results mostly)...there's occasional sites which barf on it, but it's good enough...and makes me feel marginally less exposed...
^ please take a moment and check the browsers you use with this site. Some of the popular ones are an absolute dumpster fire when it comes to tracking you.
I've settled on LibreWolf for desktop, a hardened Firefox fork. There are a small percentage of sites that don't work on it forcing me to open another browser, but I'm willing to accept that trade off for being better protected 99% of the better protected for the vast majority of my browsing.