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  • Although I understand the reasoning beyond the language used in this post, I’m sad to read that hardened privacy is considered a power user thing.

    What’s really sad is the fact you need to make a bunch of convenience tradeoffs and go well out of your way for improved privacy, and on a browser that already has a lot of built-in features for privacy. And a downside of using a Firefox fork is not getting the latest Firefox updates ASAP, you have to wait for the fork to update. It goes to show how privacy-invasive the web is.












  • Right now I don’t think Proton would do much better than existing options. There are browsers on different ends of the privacy to convenience spectrum (and these are all Gecko based):

    • Firefox: decent privacy by default without changing any settings
    • Librewolf: Firefox but with hardened settings for privacy
    • Mullvad Browser: Almost the same as Tor but not on the Tor network, which is admittedly slow
    • Tor: Uses the Tor Network and by default very hardened for Privacy but makes lots of convenience and QoL tradeoffs, including letterboxing to common browser resolutions.