Brave or Opera
Google’s customer is: US Government, Corporations, and itself
Google’s product is: the private information of every person who uses Google
Developing, maintaining, securing, and supporting a web browser is not cheap.
Block all cookies on the browser you use to surf the web.
Use a separate browser for sites you must go to that would require the use of cookies, such as to login to an account like FR. Even then, regularly delete the cookies.
Is Brave good?
I run Waterfox, a privacy based version of Firefox. I run uBlock Origin, YesScript & Ghostery addons.
I also run the Brave browser and one for Ubuntu called Falkon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkon; https://www.falkon.org/. There’s a portable version for Windows and they also have a PortableApps version, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PortableApps.com; https://portableapps.com/.
It’s not “cookies” that I’m particularly concerned with. It’s when you “login to Google Chrome” when the inter-site tracking comes into play. Cookies allow a specific domain to remember some details about your prior interaction, like a user name - and they can only read cookies to their specific domain, not others. Logging in to your Google Account in Chrome is a different beast. ...unless the “cookies” specification has changed since I used to do web development.
That said, the number one tracker across any set of companies is your CELL PHONE NUMBER. They all say providing it is “to improve your security” but it isn’t - it is so they can correlate, on their respective backends, what user name (different in each companies system) relates to the same individual. As people now tend to keep the same phone number, even when they change carriers, it’s become your “online ID” and people don’t realize it.
The best reason not to use Chrome doesn’t have anything to do with privacy: it’s just a terrible browser. The interface is clunky, the amount of resources it gobbles up is horrendous, and it doesn’t play well with most VPNs. And that’s just for starters. By the time you start talking about privacy, shoot, Lynx starts looking good again!
As many have noted, Brave is a lot more secure and is very stable on Windows. If you don’t need javascript, Tor is an option too.
Lol. They need to work on their ad routines. I mostly get ads for stuff I’ve already bought. No I don’t need a pair of work boots. I already bought a pair. Lol.
I quit Chrome years ago!!!
I’m primarily using Vivaldi now, which I like. I find it annoying that every time I download anything, the download sidebar pops out (and doesn’t even pop back in when done). Is there a way to turn that off? I don’t want to completely remove downloads from the sidebar, but this is annoying.