Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

Vanadium on my phone.

"Firefox is bad because I got a virus one time and Firefox was my default browser therefore Firefox gave my computer a virus"- my brother

Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

LibreWolf

Appearently brave is the most privacy focused browser. At least according to this paper from 3y ago.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

Edit: guys I know that Brave is not the best browser and I wouldn't recommend it, but I haven't seen studies or in depth articles about technical details of privacy concerns.

And I'm not being sarcastic, I wanna see them so I can make a more informed opinion.

I've tried a bunch of time but I feel going back to Chrome.

I'm currently trying or Oprah for the first time.

Wait, people hate Firefox? Why??

Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what's up.

Lynx

Stumbled over that last week. There is a company where I buy nearly all my computer stuff from, and I'm a customer for more than 20 years.

I wanted to order parts for a high-end PC, but simply could not add the motherboard to the shopping cart. Everything else was already in there. I called them, and they asked me if I used Firefox. And they told me in no uncertain terms that Firefox was dead and would no longer be supported for "safety and security reasons", I should use Chrome or Edge instead.

If their site is too stupid to cope with Firefox, why the heck does it not tell me about this upfront, e.g. when I try to enter an item into the shopping cart?

I switched to Arc recently and kind of hate myself for it, but it has improved my browsing experience too much to go back to FF.

Stay strong out there.

Ungoogled Chromium exists but it just feels 1/10 of what Firefox is capable of doing.

Brave + privacyBadger is about the best you can do. If you turn all the features on it anonymizes your plugins and screen res returns enough that you can't be identified by a unique configuration.

It supports TOR for private browsing natively.

I don't trust them more than Mozilla, but the do a better job at keeping my browsing habits out out the hands of my ISP and the sites I visit.

how exactly does chrome not respect my privacy?

and i don't just mean "because it's google and google is an ad company". what specifically is it sending to some internet server that firefox doesn't? both the firefox and address bars send what you type into them to a search provider. as near as i can tell, firefox's committment to privacy is to say "we protect your privacy" while doing all the same stuff that chrome does.