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Yeah well I just use Firefox on Linux

Also a good option. Edge and Chrome are definitely on the biting edge of this particular ratchet, while Firefox and Safari are at least half a whole rotation behind. (We could split hairs about who is a click behind whom, and how much of that is because of development velocity rather than intention, but the difference is minor compared to where Chrome and Edge are at.)

I use Lynx on OpenBSD.

I wold have problem with Lynx on OpenBSD, but Iridium on FreeBSD is quite ok, as long as I add obligatory ublock origin, umatrix and cookie autodelete extensions.

Why ublock and umatrix?

ublock to block ads, umatrix to block (by default, with ability to unblock) any resources outside visited domain and its subdomains.

What do you use for a mobile phone?

For last 3 years Firefox works great on Android and does have working ad-blokers.

Unfortunately, Firefox‘s security on Android is .. not the best

(https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...)

Wow that article that completely misses the point, yes, Chrome has better sandboxing, which offers it marginally better security, but that has nothing to do with Firefox's far better privacy features.

For people who are not spies or hoarding millions worth of cryptocurrencies on their desktop PCs, they're not likely running across zero day exploits on the regular. They are however running across trackers galore and Firefox's tracking protection and anti-fingerprinting features are likely to make a larger difference in practice for all but the most targeted of individuals.

It's not just Android.

Unfortunately.

Are you using one of those de-Googled custom Android ROMs or stock?

I am - GrapheneOS is excellent. I do unfortunately run sandboxed Google Play Services for access to Google Maps & Google Play through which I get my banking app. Pretty much everything else (launcher, podcasts, VLC, Firefox, FluffyChat&Element for Matrix messaging, ntfy.sh/UnifiedPush) is via f-droid, and works great.

On a Pixel or something else?

Used Pixel 4, yeah - I think the later pixels have better security features & support from Graphene, but this way I also help reduce ewaste.

Just interested because I like Graphene but don't want to use a Pixel. I'd love to run it on a FairPhone honestly. Looks like DivestOS is my best bet.

Honestly nope. I mostly need phone for banking apps that thanks to Google DRM (SafetyNet) dont play too well with custom ROMs. Yet Firefox work quite well across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android and it has huge advantage of having proper adblocking. So it's mostly no brainer which browser to use.

I’m running Firefox on both iOS & macOS.

Also installed it on my pc.

Firefox. My phone runs Linux (postmarketOS).

I use Fennec F-droid on android

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