No way in hell would Proton make a Chromium-based browser, the only way that would not be hypocritical is if they fully open sourced it (you could compile it yourself), and maintained their own fork completely devoid of Google tracking and telemetry.

Right now I don’t think Proton would do much better than existing options. There are browsers on different ends of the privacy to convenience spectrum (and these are all Gecko based):

• Firefox: decent privacy by default without changing any settings
• Librewolf: Firefox but with hardened settings for privacy
• Mullvad Browser: Almost the same as Tor but not on the Tor network, which is admittedly slow
• Tor: Uses the Tor Network and by default very hardened for Privacy but makes lots of convenience and QoL tradeoffs, including letterboxing to common browser resolutions.

Wow its that bad?

The only reason Mozilla still exists is because Google needs them to so Chrome can’t be a complete monopoly.

Yep this is exactly what I meant. Maybe I should’ve made that clear.

Are there actually Windows users that say Linux is too complicated but then jump through hoops with registry even CMD prompt?!

I’m not micromanage it, that may be a privacy tradeoff i make for convenience. I want to see what I can do without constant maintenance.

Did Obama do anything relating to this?

Oh good idea

I just installed ClearURLs and it still has the tracking parameters, can I add parameters to the addon for it to remove?

I got it after make 5 aliases for 5 Reddit accounts.

This is on my paid account.

SimpleLogin premium, with their domain. But I can’t blame them for not wanting to ruin the simplelogin.com domain

How does it work though, does it use tracker lists like uBlock origin does?

I’d definitely wanna block embedded trackers though

But couldn’t the JS runtime track which objects and variables interact with such information, so if they make any HTTP requests with the info after getting it and maybe processing it then it could be rejected?

But would it not be easy for a user to catch when the app is using the mic or camera when it’s not supposed to? the lights are an iOS feature that can’t be disabled.

You’re absolutely right micro-optimization, I found that I did too much of that in 2022 and 23 and really cut down on that this year, I found that doing so is basically never worth it. I’m not gonna do that with privacy either, I’m focusing on what actions I can take that will make big improvements to my privacy rather than tweak every little thing.

Firefox changes the capacity dynamically, I set browser.cache.disk.capacity to false in about:config and browser.cache.disk.capacity to 1024000 (the storage amount in MBs)

I have UBlock Origin, I assume that one that one is good?

macOS