7. Programs: Browsers and search engines


BROWSERS that I fearlessly use:

LIBREWOLF - it is a Firefox without Mozilla trash. No telemetry, some anti-fingerprinting capabilities.
Realistically if you want to resist fingerprinting then use the Arkenfox config or a similar config.

TOR BROWSER - it is a Firefox but with TOR and actual fingeprint resistent if used correctly (it is easy to use it correctly).
Do not install stuff that would deanonyize you (like extensions or themes) - do not modify its config. Run the NoJS (which is shipped by default with TOR) and also set the mode to "safest". That is it, ready to play with Interpol.

Also note that Firefox based browsers support multiple profiles which keep configs separate. Whenever I run my Librewolf I pick one from among my multiple profiles depending what type of task I will perform. You will not have to do any gymnastics because it is built in and easy.

I do not use other browsers because what is the point?

BRAVE seems to be decent but it is Chromium based so Brave users might be dependent on whatever Google comes up with. To my biased view it looks like a gathering of tech noobs that want to be anonymous but do not want to put any effort into it and I do not like their community because very rarely are they knowledgable.

MULLVAD made their browser but I never cared to check it out.

All other browsers (all browsers that I heard about) should be in my opinion be classified as trash and never be used though research them if they are small - they might be worth something.


SEARCH ENGINES that I use:

For daily and casual use duckduckgo. It has decent results and I do not play a big hacker while using it.
It has an onion address and it is the default in clearnet TOR, so you can fairly safely ask duckduckgo retard questions through TOR.

Other clearnet search engines are either so small that they give random results, or they are scary and not worth using.

As for TOR search engines I mostly use whatever works at the moment, mostly:
TORCH (ending with oyd.onion)
Ahmia (ending with syd.onion)
Tordex (ending with nyd.onion)

That is it.

I will talk about TOR later.