I am in the privacy game for about 2 years now and I’ve become the go-to on privacy questions in my family (which makes me proud, cuz this means, I am not just this privacy nut that cant be reached on whatsapp :D). I was asked about a browser for Graphene OS. Clearly I recommended the one I use atm, which is Waterfox (was recommended once in this comm). The person who asked me is using bromite (which looks good too). After thinking about the recommendation, there is one open question:

Does it really matter which alternate browser you choose, if it is of course not something like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari (especially regarding the outcome in this comm, where someone compared Chromium and Firefox without any real conclusion)? Also doesnt it also come down to the plugins? Like, what difference does it make, if I use Waterfox or Bromite, if I also use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and maybe JShelter?

Hope too read a lot of your toughts on this :)

  • @[email protected]
    4•20 hours ago

    I tend to run individual instances of a browser in incognito mode and am very conscious of which tabs are open in which instance, so websites cannot steal information from other tabs.

    Isn’t that the purpose of Firefox’s multi-account containers? Compartimentalising cookies to prevent cross pollination?

    Noob here, just asking honestly.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)
      1•18 hours ago

      I don’t know. When I built this, several years ago, none of that existed.