• snowydroopz@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Correct me if im wrong, but Zen (based on ff) with manual hardened privacy setting, ublock, and NextDNS for dns over https. Isnt that as good as librewolf?

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      Lots of tracking can still be done.

      Pick your poison for the situation, basically. If you really want to stop cross-site tracking for a browsing session, for example, use Cromite, which goes out of its way to actively spoof fingerprinting.

      If you are really worried about surveillance for whatever reason, use a Mullad configs

      If your ad profile is messed up, use an ad click spoofer instead of uBlock. If you’re concerned about security, use a browser inside a sandbox.

      Zen with UBlock is just fine (I use it, sometimes), but there’s really no perfect solution. Keep a few browsers around, like tools for different situations.

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      13 hours ago

      Zen is pretty much just the plain firefox hardening settings (check the privacy page on the e zen website). Librewolf and other hardened forks do a few more things than plain firefox (at the risk of breaking websites).

      Of course even plain firefox is better than chrome, add ublock and a custom dns (nextdns or self hosted pihole/technitium) and you should be all good against most things.

      Saying this as someone using zen with ublock and self hosted dns, so I might be biased 🙂

      Some of the customisations librewolf does can be manually applied to ff/zen iirc

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah im in the same boat, ublock, manual hardened settings and nextdns with self hosted SearXNG. I assume that would mean i dont need LibreWolf if I’m already doing all it does essentially