Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Hardened Firefox + Searx, along with Noscript, Ublock Origin, and cookie autodelete. Mobile is the same thing but with Mobile Firefox.
Librewolf is actually better, no need to manually make firefox better (or other firefox fork).
It takes like 5 minutes to harden Firefox and 30 minutes to build librewolf from source.
It took me two days to understand arkenfox.
Not to mention that Librewolf is struggling with compatibility on M1 macs, so you're forced to build from source, but even then, no guarantee it will work because the developers can't test it.
searx
Vivaldi + DDG I honestly don't care about open source. JS Restrictor for blocking for blocking some js
Mull (browser) and Presearch (search engine).
duckduckgo and firefox with arkenfox's user.js and ublock origin. works really well
I like Brave with DDG as it is relatively simple and doesn't break loads of sites. I also use the uMatrix extension to block 3rd party JS, this means most sites work fine with their own JS but any other JS is blocked by default.
I've been using Librewolf on Fedora, Bromite and Vanadium on mobile, and DDG for search but not super happy with that one and am looking for a replacement myself. Might use startpage, idk.
Firefox (with a few "privacy" plugins) on my desktop, Privacy Browser and Firefox on my phone. As for search engines: Qwant, Metager, Mojeek.
Bounced around alot but I've found FF with ublock, then recently started self hosting searx. Searx is alright but I still prefer DDG from time to time.
Mobile: DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
Desktop: Firefox with all the neaded add-ons, and the search engine for Firefox is DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo and Firefox with the necessary add-ons. Simple as pie.
Safari and Searx
I compiled a list of search engines that use their own indexes for organic results: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html
I'll probably post a big update to that article at some point that compares if/how some of the listed engines process structured data (RDFa, microdata, JSON-LD, microformats 1/2, open graph metadata, POSH).
I typically use a Searx/SearxNG instance that mixes Google, Bing, and Bing-derivatives (e.g. DDG) with other indexes: Petal, Mojeek, Gigablast, and Qwant (Qwant mixes its own results with Bing's). Petal, Gigablast, and Mojeek have been quite helpful for discovering new content; however, I wouldn't use Petal directly due to privacy concerns. Using it through a Searx proxy you trust more seems alright.
If I know a query will give me an instant answer I want to use, I'll use DDG.
Thank you!
Firefox is my brower for years. The latest and ongoing fuckeries from Mozilla make me mad, so I'll probably switch to Librewolf. I have Chromium-based browser for compatibility reasons (mainly video conferences, Youtube sometimes). I won't use any Chromium as my main browser because I care about diversity and don't want an effectivly Google-controlled application.
For search I recommend DuckDuckGo or Brave. Personally I use a recently setup private Searx instance and I'm quite happy with it.
Why switch? Mozilla has always been dumb and a little bit sketchy, doesn't mean that FF isn't awesome
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