What’s the best internet browser someone could recommend to me?

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We Are The Witches dijo:
I'm using Brave and also Tor, so those 2 for now.
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I use Brave too, but someone told me recently that Brave collects your data. They recommended LibreWolf, which is free and open source, so I've been trying it out recently and it's quite nice. It comes with uBlock Origin and it seems to be marginally faster than Brave.
 
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How I use the Internet

I have used the Internet since it first existed. I never used UUCP, though occasionally I sent emails to addresses that involved transmission via UUCP.
I am careful in how I connect to the internet.

Specifically, I refuse to connect through portals that would require me to identify myself, or to run any nontrivial nonfree Javascript code. I use LibreJS to prevent nonfree Javascript code from running..
I don't mind giving an identity that isn't really me, in order to connect, if that works.

I often connect in a person's home. The person of course knows who I am, but that does not bother me. What I would object to is putting my identity in a database that can be searched. I prevent that by changing my mac address at each location.
I am careful in how I use the Internet.
I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).
I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that is enough to prevent my browsing from being connected with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.

I never pay for anything on the Web, because I cannot pay anonymously. Anything on the net that requires payment that would identify me, I don't do.

I avoid paying with credit cards generally. For freedom's sake, insist on paying cash. When a business pressures you to pay in an identified way, it's your chance to defend freedom by saying, "If you won't take my cash, no sale!"

I would not mind paying for a copy of an e-book or music recording on the Internet if I could do so anonymously, and it treated me justly in other ways (no DRM or EULA). But that option almost never exists. I keep looking for ways to make it exist.
For searching, I have mostly used DuckDuckGo for the past few years. It does work with JS disabled, but you have to follow a link before you search.
I also sometimes use ixquick.com. My usual precautions should stop them from knowing it is me.

I no longer use Google search, not even occasionally, because it sends me a broken CAPTCHA. I suspect the reason it tries to send me a CAPTCHA is that I am coming through Tor. I would answer the CAPTCHA if that worked, but it does not.
I suspect that the reason the CAPTCHA is broken is that it depends on nonfree Javascript. I won't run that in my computer. I am not willing to let Google see where I am, so I won't bypass Tor. Therefore, I can't use Google search any more.
 
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paroom paroom dijo:
I use Brave too, but someone told me recently that Brave collects your data. They recommended LibreWolf, which is free and open source, so I've been trying it out recently and it's quite nice. It comes with uBlock Origin and it seems to be marginally faster than Brave.
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Was about to say that one too because I heard about it on here in a positive light, and I just tried it, but it seems to hit me with the "before you continue: manage your cookies" if I open Google.

Which doesn't happen with Brave, so that's one less "reject all" click every time I open Google on Brave (without having any extensions).
 
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We Are The Witches dijo:
Was about to say that one too because I heard about it on here in a positive light, and I just tried it, but it seems to hit me with the "before you continue: manage your cookies" if I open Google.

Which doesn't happen with Brave, so that's one less "reject all" click every time I open Google on Brave (without having any extensions).
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My guess is that you are logged in to a Google account on Brave. Brave stores cookies by default, LibreWolf doesn't, so even if you've logged into a Google account, you'll have to do so every time you open the browser. If you want to change that you can do so in settings.

However, why use Google in the first place? One of the most evil and powerful corporations, accumulating unimaginable amounts of data from billions of people, for no good purposes. It's not like there aren't good Google alternatives, either.
My favourite is Presearch, but there are lots of good ones.

There's a really nice site, alternativeto.net where you can check the best alternatives for search engines, browsers and lots of other stuff.

If you're using Google for EwTube, I get that, there are good EwTube alternatives, like Odysee, but until users don't adopt those alternatives, most creators have no incentive to upload on those platforms. (At least until they understand that censorship and shilling for a corporation just isn't worth it).
I use the WatchOnOdysee extension on Brave (haven't checked if it's available for LibreWolf yet) so that if I'm watching someone's content on EwTube who has their content mirrored on Odysee it automatically redirects to the Odysee version.
 
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