I am somehow late to the party.
I read almost all threads responses and there is something I wanted to say.
Watched a Rob Braxman video a while ago and he stated that the best fingerprinting avoidance technique was to mimic a “normie” browser.
And to poison the leaking data, or cookies by some extension like AdNauseam.
Remeber, data without linkage to an identity is pretty much useless.
Sounds weird, but let’s see some details.
A person has a digital identity / fingerprint, and while being online on social media, various platforms or simply browsing the internet, data is produced and recorded. The most valuable thing BigTech is after is the digital identity+data.
Example I can see **your** picture. the picture as a abstract data has less value if it is not a picture of someone known.
As in life there is no such thing as a perfect secure privacy browser. There are many browsers. None are perfect and some are better than others for various reasons which are not because of any opinion i need to give. I use Firefox 100% and I’m satisfied with that.
I saw that with the cute emoji and decided to put Firefox to the test. I used Firefox Developer’s Edition for years due to speed issues loading Oxygen Builder, which I have a few sites built on. But I never put any extensions on it to keep the builder loading as fast as possible, which was around 2 seconds against 11 seconds on Chrome.
Today, I decided to set up Firefox 107 for privacy and security. It has come a long way, and no longer needs HTTPS Everywhere or Privacy Badger extensions. I simply have uBlock Origin, Facebook Containers, Firefox Multi-Account Containers. Ok, I really fine tuned uBlock Origin, and honestly, I agree with you Rick, just use Firefox, but with those 3 extensions, and that is all you need IMHO. Mozilla have done a great job.
As a result, I dumped Vivaldi after using it since it was released. It has become a bloated OS, rather than a privacy and security focused browser.
The open source browser will continue to support MV2 extensions “for the foreseeable future,” taking a gradual approach and gathering feedback as MV3 matures.