Comment your pick!

[dalarian@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss im enjoying waterfox

[melissa@pkm.social]

@itsfoss Vivaldi!

[starwolf3000@kitsune.moe]

@itsfoss@mastodon.social Vivaldi
Ja, die UI ist proprietär, und nur die Renderingengine Chromium, aber ich war schon großer Freund des alten Opera wegen seiner Anpassbarkeit, und Mausgesten out-of-the-Box. KI-Müll, den fast alle anderen einbauen, brauch ich nicht. Eingebauter Werbeblocker.

[schuppenvogel@procial.tchncs.de]

@itsfoss@mastodon.social #Firefox since ever

[libreovergratis@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss librewolf for daily driving, ungoogled-chromium for WebUSB / WebBluetooth.

If you use brave, firefox, or chrome, you might as well give out thumbdrives full of your browsing data to aggregators.

[freeb@mas.to]

@itsfoss I like Trivalent (SecureBlue), its a nice simple and secure browser.

[egetun@mastodon.art]

@itsfoss firefox & vivaldi.

[s94@social.vivaldi.net]

@itsfoss Trivalent on desktop, Vanadium on mobile

[wgarmil@mastodon.sdf.org]

@itsfoss When I was on Windows, I mostly used Brave until I learned it was supporting crypto stuff. When I switched to Linux, I started with Firefox and now use Vivaldi in parallel. I need to do a deeper dive into Librewulf and Waterfox to see which will replace Firefox for me.

[marbcc@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss
I use LibreWolf

[lorker@mastodon.kevga.de]

@itsfoss i use @librewolf and love it

[hoomanperson@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss Librewolf, chromium for when webdevs don't know how to webdev.

[indonische@mstdn.social]

@itsfoss

on desktop : firefox-esr & brave
on mobile : fennec and vivaldi

[alreadydeadxd@infosec.exchange]

@itsfoss i use firefox

[ireland4ever@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss
Firefox-I like the extensions that allow you to block ads and ai slop

[terminaltilt@climatejustice.social]

@itsfoss

Lets look at these options.

Vivaldi and Chrome are both closed source, so no one who cares about their digital sovereignty should ever consider them when there are so many other options available.

In a vacuum, Brave is an ok browser, but it is still based on Chromium (Just like Chrome and Vivaldi) which is not good for your privacy/security. Because of Manifest v3, you are limited in what ad blocking you can use/do. Also, Brave's leadership is extremely problematic, their CEO, Brenden Eich, is a genuine bigot.

Of the four options listed, Firefox is the only decent option, but even then it is not the best option for Firefox based browsers. There are so many excellent forks, like Librewolf, Zen, Waterfox, and Mullvad, that will respect your privacy and freedom.

[terminaltilt@climatejustice.social]

@yoasif @itsfoss

LOL, I came here to say exactly that. I think this website is pretending to care about FOSS while actually just looking for some clicks.

[kdkorte@fosstodon.org]

@rustbuckett @itsfoss @AAKL @Kdude lot's of thoughts and prayers, mixed with a weird obsession that the next over hyped tool will fix all the basic problems

[kdkorte@fosstodon.org]

@AAKL @Kdude @rustbuckett @itsfoss preying tech companies, cyber criminals, and foreign spy agencies

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@kdkorte @Kdude @rustbuckett @itsfoss And that chain/domino effect is something average users don't seem to understand or don't want to understand. You can't protect people from themselves.