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Zerush ,
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Don't get me wrong, Mozilla does a lot for user privacy and is certainly one of the most reliable alternatives for a user among the existing browsers. I'm just seeing that Mozilla has unfortunately made a contract with the Devil that prevents it from having the full freedom of protection that it would like. Mozilla deserves the independence of this company, which, at the moment, it does not have, which is why I said that I wish it could end this contract.

I use several browsers, but the list of existing ones with certain capabilities and functionalities is getting small.

  • Edge is technically a good browser, but certainly not recommended for those who appreciate privacy,
  • Chrome users could ask Google to write their resume directly,
  • Opera is perhaps the worst, using trackers that distribute your data to half the internet,
  • Safari It is not much better either and it is also becoming the new IE with its desire to stay with an engine that is becoming obsolete,
  • Brave is unreliable due to its business with shady crypto companies and the intentional redirections to them and excluding investors from the protections against trackers, Facebook among them,
  • Otter is an alternative, but fighting for its survival, which makes it not very reliable in the long term,
  • the same with some Gecko and Chromium marginal forks, which either lack sufficient equipment for sufficient maintenance, They are directly outdated or lack a consistent support community, - Mullvad browser is very private, yes, but it completely lacks the minimum functions for customization or modification, practically a Firefox left in its bones with 4 sections in the settings.
  • SSuite Netsurf, very fast and beautiful, but not very configurable, it does not even allow you to change the Groot search engine, which on the other hand is good and private, it also does not have extensions, only an Adblocker that it incorporates and it is also only for Windows, the only plus its extraordinary speed and that it works even on very old Windows (>XP) with few resources.

Well, there's not much left, Firefox, Vivaldi, maybe Otter (if you want speed) and Mullvad, to choose from. The big companies are really destroying a free internet in their greed to control everything and using the user as raw material and merchandise for this. Tough times if we don't manage to stop them. More than 70 browsers have already fallen by the wayside, discontinued and abandoned in this "browser war"

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