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While using multiple browsers can be a good idea, I'd still steer away from Chrome as it can do shady stuff in the background even if not "opened" (don't have any sort of evidence it does, but still, something to consider), since it is a desktop app.
You should definitely look into Multi-Account containers in Firefox. These allow you to essentially have separate "browsers" (different registries for cookies, storage, etc), which is not only useful for practical purposes but also for privacy ones, even if they are not fingerprinting-proof solutions.
I do, however, have a "Firefox Focus" profile that uses the minimum amount of extensions, has all the nice fingerprinting toggles and has Temporary Containers set on strict. It is really really neat.
Edit: add links
a good suggestion would also be to enable dFPI, so that cookies and website data is separated without needing an extension.
Yup, for sure! Forgot about it :)
Okay nice, I really like the suggestion here. I had heard about containers in Firefox but never actually looked into them, so will do.
Unfortunately I can’t get rid of Chrome completely since a web app I have to use requires Chrome (for whatever reason, it’s a bit predatory if you ask me).
Nice! Lemme know how it goes :D
Have you tried Ungoogled Chromium? I use it for sites that require me to use Chrome (like MS Teams), it's better than Chrome for privacy.
Yup good suggestion
Oh smart dude! I used to use chromium on Linux way back in the day. Totally forgot about it. I’ll give that a shot and check functionality today.
EDIT: I'm on an M1 Pro macbook, and while the chromium for intel works fine, the chromium for mac arm gives the warning that the application is damaged and should be moved to the trash. Unfortunately no current working build for Mac ARM.
it is likely that the app is not actually damaged, on M1 macs gatekeeper is far more aggressive and apple really wants devs to pay for notarization.
see a comment on the issue from the devs, and a possible workaround (the quarantine part for M1). as the maintainer of a project on osx I share their sentiment, it's fucked up..
Damn that is pretty fucked up. Thanks for the information!
I dislike how Ungoogled Chromium doesn't update easily, nor updating the extensions is easy.