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What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom? This browser should: Respect user privacy. Ideally no telemetry, or at least opt-in telemetry. Does not...
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2023-09-29T19:45:31Z (about 1 year ago)
What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom?
What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom? This browser should: * Respect user privacy. Ideally no telemetry, or at least opt-in telemetry. Does not comply with website tracking if possible without breaking the site. * Respect user freedom. Good support for ad-blocking, element hiding, request blocking. Does not force the user into running harmful features unless they are strictly necessary. * Practical. Should be able to actually run normal sites, like popular e-stores, banks, government services, job sites and so on. These criteria almost imply open source. For example, it is very difficult to verify lack of telemetry without the source code. In principle, the license of the source code is not important. But in practice, it will be hard for a closed source browser to convincingly meet these. Please post one answer per browser.