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browsers suck

the browser, arguably the most used part of every smart modern device, e.g your nuggetphone.

currently, the three main browsers are probably Google Chrome (the worst one), Opera (a little bit better, the GX version is way better, not in privacy but in features), and Firefox (the better one).

i wonder though. why do people opt to browsers that have a bunch of useless junk? google chrome, the top browser on the market. it's from, well, google and you know what google does. they cram in a bunch of telemetry in there, you know like FLoC and Topics, and with attempts to stop tracker-blocking too with their new extensions API (probably got that wrong). maybe that's why chrome is very slow.

many other browsers are the same, like those browsers that smartphone vendors install. they always have tracking built in and they send it somewhere.

so how does one pick a browser?

choose a privacy-respecting open source browser. that's what you're looking for.

on desktop, there's nothing wrong with firefox. but you can try other alternatives that do a better job at blocking: such as librewolf (hardened firefox, as i call it), pale moon, or ungoogled chromium if you really need chrome. you could also try vivaldi, while not fully open source, it's a great private browser. on android land, it's quite hard to find one out there in the play store. but if you have f-droid, you can try bromite, foss browser, or fennec f-droid/iceraven.

there are just too many browsers selling your data out there.

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