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Also check out Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium) which goes above & beyond by not just "proxying" services but rather removing all phone-home functionality altogether.

There's no for-profit entity behind it, so no perverse incentives to monetize either (but that also means they don't have a budget for proper CI, signing, distribution, etc.) so there's a bit of DIY work involved on less-popular platforms.

I use Ungoogled Chromium as a backup whenever a website makes the unfortunate choice of not properly supporting my main browser, Firefox.

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The reason brave is a bit less hardcore ungoogled-chromium is usability.

Brave can be used by anyone, with the experience they expect from a modern browser.

No need for some weird workarounds to install extensions, no support for widevine, etc.

Ungoogled Chromium is the Chromium-based desktop browser that I use as a backup to Firefox, but I almost never need it.

I have two installations of Firefox: a primary installation that has Enhanced Tracking Protection and privacy extensions enabled, and a secondary installation that has neither but clears all history when the browser is closed. I'll switch to the secondary installation when the primary one doesn't work with a site, usually because the privacy features interfere in some way. It's easy to do this with two editions of Firefox (e.g. stable and Beta/Developer Edition, or a fork like LibreWolf or Mull).

With this setup, I rarely ever use Ungoogled Chromium, and haven't used it for some time.

You can just use profiles in FF and achieve the same. No need for 2 separate installs.

Absolutely, and I do use Firefox profiles on desktop with the Profile Switcher for Firefox extension.* Profiles aren't available on Android, however, so I use multiple installations there.

* Profile Switcher for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

I personally use Bromite.

https://www.bromite.org/

I used to use SRWare Iron on the desktop, but not for many years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

Firefox is also full of bloatware, telemetry and potential privacy concerns. Try enabling a firewall for Firefox and see how many domains are contracted on startup ...

I've sadly felt like I had to switch to Librewolf, a fork of Firefox that resembles Ungoogled Chromium. Sadly because Mozilla really needs all the Firefox users they can get... to stay alive. But they make it hard.

Yup, thankfully for my family, i've compiled alot of this crap out :D

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