Brave is the only Chromium browser recommended by Privacy Guides which is why I chose it. It has a good update schedule and I never have problems with ads.

Once I set it up, it's been just a clean, ad-free browser. Based on Little Snitch, which is free on Linux, like Brave Origin, Brave has a clean list of default connections.

While Firefox may be considering shipping Brave shields for ad block, wouldn't Brave be more opposing to Google's monopoly considering it blocks their business model? Firefox is funded by Google and has bad privacy by default. It connects to Google servers when you first set it up.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870

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cf100clunk 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The LibreWolf browser, and if need be the IronFox browser for Android, should have been installed and analyzed in parallel with Brave by the OP, then I'd accept that a proper analysis was begun.

	▲	Cider9986 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ironfox has been well received and will be added eventually, from what I skimmed. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/ironfox-a-new-mull-fork/... Librewolf has community support as you can see here. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/librewolf-firefox-based-... They don't do anti-recommendations on the pages but you can see the discussion for things on the forum.

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Capricorn2481 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am not trying to spread FUD, but at the edge of my consciousness, I remember privacyguides getting some flak for some reason. Looking it up now, there's a lot of posts on reddit accusing them of putting affiliates on the site instead of actual private software.

Looking at it briefly, their software choices seem mostly sane to me. Not a lot of FOSS, but a lot of non-technical people don't know how to setup FOSS to begin with. Can't really get mad at a site recommending Signal and Syncthing and local LLMs.

I haven't seen privacyguides mentioned since being on HN, and I trust this site more than others. What are people's opinions on it?

	▲	Cider9986 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not FUD, just oudated. I wasn't around then but privacytools.io, now, is definitely not trustworthy. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/#history