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You seem to trust Apple a lot more than I do. Why not go a step further and use Firefox/Tor?

I trust Firefox as well. It was my second choice. I had two reasons for not switching to Firefox.

1. Firefox used a lot more memory & CPU on my MBP. Maybe that is fixed now. I remember reading that they worked on the footprint.

2. The large majority of Firefox's revenue is (indirectly) driven by ads from Google. I just wanted to get out of the ad swamp once and for all.

Add to the list that Firefox doesn't have good security compared to Chromium variants, like proper per site process isolation.

I use Firefox on Android for regular browsing. I've also configured the default browser to be Firefox Focus, meaning that every time I click a link it opens a disposable session with no history available.

I guess I could still be tracked based on IP address as I'm not normally using Tor. Ublock and Privacy Badger does help there, I guess, but while it's not foolproof I do believe it's better than just assuming that Apple will take care of privacy for you.

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