Sounds like a lot more work than just opting out

Mozilla sucks more ass than Google in your opinion?

Both?

Nothing much, what's up with you?

I keep meaning to try Zen. I have it installed on my desktop for like, jeez, at least a year. Yet to start it up.

UwU

This is the guy that Epstein sent an email to saying:

"Finding things on their way to collapse, was much easier than finding the next bargain."

3 days before Brexit vote. Peter Thiel is named over 2,200 times in the Epstein files, confirming their extensive correspondence.

And Thiel did nothing but sabotage society for finding the next bargain. He's a caricature super villain from James Bond, that should be at the bottom of a volcano somewhere not funding web browsers.

Technically the order was:

Buy

180 on views

Make him VP

He didn't really buy a ready-made VP, he groomed him.

Librewolf by default deletes all cookies when you close it. So that will log you out of every website, but that also makes sure things like tracking cookies don't hang around.

You can tweak those settings if you want.

Waterfox is just as good with less setup work.

Sounds like a "delete all cookies and session data after closing the program" type of setting.
Maybe try to look at your settings :)

Correct! Logging in via password manager is easy! And I add exceptions for the few sites I want to stay logged in

This is a bit like the "If you're not doing anything, you have nothing to hide" argument. You're thinking this is an all or nothing position, and it's very much not. It depends on one's threat model, but there's two sides to the coin worth considering.

First, that your entire life is open to anyone with money. Individuals so motivated can spend a couple grand and buy your advertising data and stalk you. Everything you think, every little whim, every random question, is used to build a profile on you that benefits someone else financially. All you get is free email and a mediocre browser from a billion-dollar company that derives an average of $1,600 from you a year if you're in the US ? You can pay for those services for a tenth of that. So you're 90% profit to Google.

On the flip side, by giving up so much high-value data, that profile becomes active in real time. Even if you use ad blockers and don't see the ads (which as a Chrome user, you no longer can do). You are an active target by companies. Not just you, everyone around you. Friends, family, coworkers. For some big ticket items, advertisers will target anyone connected to your profile. So your parents, your kids, your neighbors, might start to get ads about a cruise. Not for them, but for you, since it looks like you might be a good mark for a cruise. These companies manipulate people around you to be the ads, so that when you bring up "we're thinking about doing a cruise" at some point, everyone around you jumps in with the same "oh, well I've heard that XYZ Cruise company is good."

You trust a company that much to manipulate you and everyone around you without bias? With your best interests in mind? You want to cede your agency as a human to real-time auctions?

Personally, this is fundamentally abhorrent to me. And I understand that other people are fine with this. However, I'd rather leave a small and bland trail of a few occasional and useless crumbs, and then leave "redacted" as a middle finger because that deprives Google and Meta of using me as a revenue source. The nice part is that even partially masking your footprint and traffic, it's enough to break the real-time value of you as an individual. So not only does every little bit help, every little bit has effects to protect you and your family.

i2p is a separate network entirely, and part of that is routing your traffic to someone else's connection. So your exit node is someone else's laptop or server. And you're letting other people doing who knows what else use your connection as an exit node. Which, for me, is an absolute deal breaker. I don't trust other people online to let them use my connection.

Wrong. Firefox is still a valid alternative. While those exists Google can't do anything they want. If they will go too far they will have the same issues Windows has.

Ok, or webkit.

Unfortunately Orion is closed source. Though last I heard, Kagi was working towards open sourcing it.

or if you’re not averse toto a paid option, Wipr rocks

Unfortunately no adblocking

Edit: this comes two days later and after using DDG's browser app on iOS the adblocking is nowhere near as effective as brave's adblocking and when playing videos the phone heats up a lot and it drains the battery way more. So unfortunately I may switch back to Brave.

You can say what you want and you can downvote me into oblivion. Brave's adblock (on iOS) is leagues ahead of the competition. All while not tanking your battery.

That bad, huh?