Tor is off the table for me because it’s so slow. If you can point to some test sites or documentation that supports your choice, please include!

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    Can’t someone come up with a browser that just randomly lies when asked about the characteristics that could be used for fingerprinting?

    Except for trusted, whitelisted sites.

    That seems like it would be a pretty good privacy enhancer.

    • JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      Not sure about the whitelisting part, but I think this is what Brave already does. Randomizing fingerprinted data as opposed to blending in. Makes it hard to build a profile on.

  • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months ago

    Mullvad and Tor and it isn’t close. I use it to circumvent bans on social media when I say something too communist. Don’t alter it with addons in any way its perfect as it is.

    If google, reddit, facebook, etc. can’t figure out I’m circumventing them I consider that good enough.

    I also like Mullvad for most cases it has adblock by default which lowers the annoyances.

    Many websites will be pissy if you’re secure as possible. Tor and Mullvad browser make them very pissy often. Its best to have a backup browser for that and normal activities. Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium are good choices there. More secure, but fingerprintable enough that sites don’t get pissy.

  • InvisibleRasta@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    Its is pretty easy to get rid of all the brave crap. You just need a policy file:

    # cat /etc/brave/policies/managed/brave_policies.json
{
    "BraveRewardsDisabled": true,
    "BraveWalletDisabled": true,
    "BraveVPNDisabled": 1,
    "BraveAIChatEnabled": true,
    "NewTabPageLocation": "https://search.brave.com/",
    "TorDisabled": false,
    "PasswordManagerEnabled": false,
    "DnsOverHttpsMode": "automatic"
}