0:00 the web browser ecosystem is extremely
0:02 vast and over the years of researching
0:04 privacy and security software writing
0:06 for privacy guides all that kind of
0:09 stuff I have tried a ton of different
0:11 web browsers um so today I just wanted
0:13 to go through pretty much every browser
0:16 that I see brought up um within like
0:19 these privacy and cyber security spaces
0:21 big or small and rank them all according
0:24 to uh how I feel about them what I like
0:26 what I dislike and of course privacy and
0:30 security given my background this list
0:32 is going to come with a pretty heavy
0:33 bias towards privacy and security um
0:37 your web browser is probably the single
0:39 most used application that you use on a
0:41 day-to-day basis so having one that
0:44 doesn't suck up all of your data and
0:46 send it somewhere else um is pretty
0:48 important because you're going to be
0:50 interacting with it a lot and security
0:53 is also super important because your web
0:55 browser is probably the single most
0:57 attacked by the internet application
0:59 that you run on a on a daily basis so
1:01 the dangers of zero days and other
1:03 vulnerabilities is extremely prevalent
1:05 when you're making a choice here I think
1:07 that's enough inro though I'm just going
1:08 to get into this we have this tier list
1:10 here um it goes from s to f s being top
1:14 tier most excellent browsers F being the
1:18 worst I think you all have seen a tier
1:20 list before so we'll just get into it uh
1:22 starting with brave browser now Brave is
1:26 a pretty controversial browser I would
1:28 say but I'll just say straight out of
1:30 the gate here that I do like Brave and I
1:33 think it's one of the best chromium
1:35 browsers out there for your privacy and
1:37 security Brave does a lot of their own
1:39 independent and original work in the
1:41 browser anti-fingerprinting space that
1:43 improves the Privacy Outlook of web
1:45 browsing overall in my opinion and that
1:47 really sets them apart from other um
1:49 chromium Forks or other browser Forks
1:51 that kind of more or less just toggle
1:53 some existing flags and call it a day um
1:57 Brave definitely has been in some hot
1:59 water in the past for pretty
2:01 questionable business practices um they
2:03 were adding referral tags to some crypto
2:06 Links at one point and they have a
2:08 pretty close affiliation with their own
2:10 cryptocurrency but disabling wallet
2:12 features and all that stuff really gives
2:14 you one of the best private and secure
2:16 browsing experiences in a Chromium
2:18 browser that's available in my opinion
2:20 so brave is a pretty solid pretty solid
2:24 beat here for me I would say um moving
2:26 on to chromite chromite is an actively
2:30 updated Fork of bromite which is a once
2:32 popular browser for Android I think if
2:34 you're looking for an Android browser
2:37 Brave is probably going to be the better
2:40 move for most people but if you're
2:42 looking for a chromium alternative to
2:43 Brave on Android um I don't think you
2:46 can really go wrong with chromite so
2:50 that's going to be uh a pretty solid B
2:52 tier alternative to Brave on Android
2:55 let's see moving on to Firefox here
2:58 Firefox is an interesting one uh Mozilla
3:01 is one of the longest standing advocates
3:04 for internet privacy that we have and
3:06 their web browser has a really long
3:09 track record of being a reliable
3:10 favorite of people kind of in this space
3:13 who want software that actually respects
3:15 them unlike some of the Alternatives
3:17 that big tech companies are putting out
3:18 there however Firefox has kind of been
3:21 slower than even some of those big tech
3:23 companies when it comes to adding
3:24 certain privacy Centric features uh so
3:27 like back in 2020 for example Safari was
3:30 the first major browser to block third
3:32 party cookies by default which is
3:34 something that really I think Mozilla
3:36 should have been on top of but they
3:37 didn't really fully get around to doing
3:38 until just last year I and many others
3:41 also take issue with the Telemetry that
3:43 Firefox collects by default Integrations
3:45 with internet services like pocket and
3:47 Mozilla seemingly giving higher priority
3:49 to new products rather than just
3:51 focusing on Firefox um so there are
3:55 definitely some issues that I have with
3:56 Firefox but it's still a great browser I
3:59 think think that its defaults could be
4:01 better um and diving into settings
4:04 setting better options is definitely a
4:06 must when you use this but I would say
4:08 um again a pretty solid B tier for
4:11 Firefox however that being said hardened
4:16 Firefox is definitely something that I
4:18 like now there isn't a specific
4:20 Standalone browser called hardened
4:22 Firefox but pretty much any hardened
4:24 configuration of a standard Firefox
4:26 install is going to get top marks in my
4:28 book I prefer the configuration changes
4:30 that Arin Fox user.js provides um so if
4:33 you look up Arin Fox on GitHub here um
4:36 they have a whole walkthrough under Wiki
4:39 and explanation but it's basically just
4:40 a template that uh increases the privacy
4:43 and security of a standard Firefox
4:45 install so you can add that and it sets
4:47 all of the Privacy related settings
4:49 security related settings to better
4:51 defaults and it's very customizable um
4:54 that's the kind of thing that would
4:55 create a hardened Firefox install
4:57 there's other guides and resources out
4:59 out there to making Firefox more privacy
5:01 respecting than its defaults but I would
5:03 say pretty much if you put in the effort
5:05 to make Firefox better than its defaults
5:08 I would uh it's going to get top marks
5:11 in my book uh so that's definitely an a
5:13 tier for me let's see what's next ooh
5:16 Microsoft Edge uh I think this is going
5:19 to be of no surprise to anybody here but
5:21 that's a pretty solid F tier browser in
5:24 my opinion um and no Microsoft Defender
5:27 application guard does not make this a
5:29 private insecure browser as some people
5:31 might claim the incredible amounts of
5:34 telemetry bloat wear in this browser
5:37 should immediately cross this off of
5:39 anybody's lists just to be completely
5:41 fair to Microsoft Edge I will note that
5:43 the edge security team has done a few
5:45 things from time to time which I would
5:47 actually like to see other security
5:48 Focus browsers incorporate uh Microsoft
5:51 Edge does have a cool uh toggle where
5:53 you can set on a perite basis whether
5:56 javascript's just in time compilation is
5:58 enabled which um if you don't know uh
6:01 jit just in time compilation represents
6:03 a pretty major security risk in all
6:05 browsers a lot of browser
6:06 vulnerabilities are related to that and
6:08 being able to disable it by default and
6:11 enable it if it breaks a site rather
6:12 than just having it on or off like in a
6:14 lot of other browsers is a super cool
6:17 feature so that is some of the things uh
6:19 that edge works on on the security side
6:21 of things that makes it kind of neat and
6:24 I wish other browsers would copy but a
6:26 handful of cool features isn't to redeem
6:30 uh probably one of Microsoft's biggest
6:32 spiber attempts in my opinion and it's
6:35 just mindboggling to me that we're
6:37 letting Microsoft slowly REM monopolize
6:40 internet browsing in Windows after they
6:42 failed to do so with Internet Explorer
6:44 definitely enough um Safari Safari is
6:47 certainly not an ideal browser by any
6:49 means um but I do think this will be
6:52 saved from F tier because it is kind of
6:56 a decent choice on iOS on Mac OS I'd
6:58 stick with pretty much anything else but
7:00 inside Apple's mobile wall Garden
7:03 Safari's webkit is pretty much the only
7:05 available browser option for thirdparty
7:06 browsers to use anyways so you might as
7:09 well just stick with using Safari in
7:11 most cases instead of other browsers
7:13 which are mostly just wrappers around
7:15 Safari's code because in those cases
7:17 when you use a third party browser on
7:19 iOS um you're relying on both that
7:22 developer and the Safari Developers for
7:24 security and privacy updates rather than
7:26 just one of them so not as a GRE just as
7:29 Microsoft ads for sure but it's a
7:31 proprietary browser it's not great
7:33 pretty solid D tier for me vadium uh
7:36 most people probably aren't familiar
7:38 with this but it's basically just a
7:40 chromium based browser for um an Android
7:43 ROM called graphine OS uh I think that
7:46 this browser falls short in a lot of
7:48 privacy specific respects um but it's
7:51 pretty great that Google Integrations
7:52 which come in standard and chromium are
7:54 removed vadium just doesn't have a lot
7:56 of additional privacy protections like
7:59 content blocking functionality or any
8:01 sort of like anti-fingerprinting uh
8:04 privacy protections that kind of thing
8:05 so I think most Android users will
8:07 likely be better off with um a browser
8:10 like Brave instead but it's not terrible
8:13 um it's not a terrible option by any
8:14 means I would say probably a c tier for
8:16 sure oh now we're getting to the good
8:18 stuff uh tour browser um this is this is
8:23 NS tier I just got to say straight up
8:25 this is kind of the real OG of privacy
8:27 browsers uh using tor browser is pretty
8:29 much the only way to truly browse the
8:32 internet anonymously and uh just having
8:35 that option available is super important
8:36 for so many reasons um the ultra
8:39 paranoid among you can use tour browser
8:42 and take your security to the max by
8:43 using it alongside like wanic and Cubes
8:46 but really anybody can take advantage of
8:48 the Privacy protections that tour
8:50 provides um it's a really great browser
8:52 and the more people use it the more
8:54 privacy protecting it becomes to people
8:55 who need it and it's just one of the the
8:59 best definite s tier opera on the other
9:01 hand uh these days Opera is pretty much
9:04 just another generic chromium clone um
9:07 but it's also proprietary instead of
9:09 Open Source I don't want to be one of
9:11 the anti-china people necessarily but
9:13 being acquired by a Chinese Investment
9:15 Group back in 2016 and then immediately
9:17 bundling a free VPN that collects all of
9:20 your traffic information right inside of
9:23 Opera should definitely raise a lot of
9:25 red flags for people who are concerned
9:26 about their privacy there's other
9:28 browsers that if you like the old 2012
9:31 era opera um you might want to consider
9:34 instead of this but this is pretty much
9:37 uh nothing of note these days and I
9:39 would definitely avoid it um in a
9:41 similar vein Opera GX um it's been
9:45 popularized a lot by some sponsored
9:48 YouTubers but it's just Opera with a
9:50 gamery skin um and for the same reasons
9:53 it's getting enough F here faldi on the
9:55 other hand so if you were one of those
9:58 for former Opera users you might
10:01 actually be interested in Vivaldi um it
10:03 was started by ex Opera developers in
10:05 xec after Opera was acquired by those
10:08 aformentioned Chinese investors and it
10:10 really is I would kind of describe raldi
10:13 as the Swiss army knife of web browsers
10:15 I don't really hate Baldi or anything
10:18 they support a lot of the ideals that
10:20 I'm aligned with they host a lot of Open
10:21 Source internet projects for the public
10:23 to use such as email hosting free blogs
10:26 they even have a mastedon server um that
10:29 kind of stuff and they pay for that all
10:31 with the funding that they make from the
10:32 browser itself so the products the open
10:34 source projects and communities that
10:36 they have are free which I think is
10:37 pretty cool um of them to do
10:41 unfortunately for Vivaldi being close
10:45 source is a pretty big blow to me
10:47 trusting their browser I would say and
10:50 they try to weasel out of it sometimes
10:51 with claims about how Baldi is built
10:53 upon the open source chromium and some
10:56 aspects of it are Source available but
10:58 it's not not really the same thing as
10:59 being an open source project and
11:01 additionally Vivaldi's privacy
11:03 protections out of the box are just
11:05 fairly lacking in my opinion uh the
11:07 pre-built options that they give you at
11:09 first launch to improve your privacy
11:10 don't actually make a huge difference as
11:12 far as like anti-fingerprinting goes um
11:15 so it's just not my favorite browser in
11:18 terms of like privacy protections or
11:19 security you could certainly do worse
11:21 than using faldi I would say but you
11:24 could also definitely do better I think
11:26 um so I would probably stick it in D
11:30 tier moving on to duck Dogo browser um I
11:33 don't know how many people are even
11:34 aware that they made a browser since
11:36 they're most famous for their search
11:37 engine but uh dock. go browser is a
11:40 pretty neat browser available on most
11:42 platforms it has excellent content
11:44 blocking capabilities of the Box um so
11:46 stuff like ad blocking tracker blocking
11:48 that kind of thing but besides that it
11:50 doesn't really have too much going for
11:52 it it isn't a fork of an existing
11:55 browser which is kind of cool but it's
11:56 basically a wrapper for your operating
11:58 system systems built in web View and
12:01 typically applications like that are not
12:03 as secure as the Standalone Chromium
12:05 browser engine and additionally duck
12:08 ducko browser is an open source so while
12:11 I like the effort and I like duck duck
12:14 Go's vision for privacy in general
12:16 that's going to get a d tier for me Pale
12:19 Moon Pale Moon is an interesting browser
12:23 um they're kind of like desperately
12:24 trying to hold on to some ideals of the
12:26 older web which is a cause that I'm
12:29 somewhat sympathetic towards but then I
12:32 tested out Pale Moon and I remember that
12:34 there is a reason that Firefox moved on
12:36 from that ancient code that Pale Moon is
12:39 trying to keep alive um websites barely
12:42 function a lot of the time and all of
12:44 the modern security features that are
12:45 standard in pretty much every web
12:47 browser are missing in Pale Moon so if
12:50 you're using it I would say it's
12:52 probably time to move on and try a
12:54 Harden Firefox configuration instead um
12:58 yeah yeah that's going to be an F tier
13:00 mul browser is an interesting one this
13:02 is a fork of Firefox for Android but
13:05 unlike Firefox it's completely 100% free
13:08 in open source um whereas Firefox
13:10 bundles some proprietary libraries in it
13:12 with for things like DRM it also has
13:14 increased browser fingerprinting
13:15 protections out of the box and it
13:17 includes a lot of additional security
13:19 patches as well this browser is
13:20 developed by uh divested Computing who
13:24 also makes dest OS um which is probably
13:27 my favorite custom Android dram
13:29 currently on the market so if you're
13:31 looking for an Android Firefox based
13:34 browser I would say mul is probably one
13:38 of the best options you can choose
13:39 that's an easy a tier for me in a
13:41 similar vein mulch is another web
13:44 browser for Android from the same people
13:46 divested Computing um but this one is
13:49 based on chromium instead of Firefox
13:51 unfortunately it has many of the same
13:54 issues as vadium because it's pretty
13:58 much much uh it's very heavily based on
14:01 vadium it's almost just a fork of vadium
14:04 entirely the main benefit is that it's
14:05 supported on more Android robs other
14:08 than graphine OS but otherwise it lacks
14:11 uh serious privacy protections it lacks
14:13 content blocking that kind of things so
14:15 probably along the same lines of vadium
14:17 C tier here not super exciting but it is
14:20 worth mentioning moving on to Arc um Arc
14:23 is actually one of the biggest newcomers
14:25 to the browser industry in general it
14:27 seems like a lot of people are pretty
14:29 excited about it um and Arc which is
14:32 developed by the browser Company of New
14:34 York is certainly interesting I would
14:38 say it's based on chromium it receives
14:41 regular and frequent updates um which is
14:43 all the stuff you'd expect from a good
14:45 browser and in the time I've been
14:46 testing it out I actually do quite like
14:49 the user experience a lot it makes uh
14:51 the browsing the internet much easier
14:53 and better in my humble opinion it's the
14:55 only Chromium browser that I'm aware of
14:58 which
14:59 um has functionality similar to
15:01 firefox's multiac account containers
15:03 where I can have essentially different
15:04 browser profiles with different website
15:06 logins cookies Etc all on a per tab
15:09 basis in a single window which is a
15:12 workflow that I really like I don't like
15:13 having to open multiple windows to have
15:15 multiple browser profiles for example
15:18 all of that being said the downsides of
15:20 Arc are pretty significant and that
15:23 means it's not going to score higher
15:26 than a d I would say um it's totally
15:29 proprietary for one thing um and for
15:31 something like a web browser I really do
15:33 feel like being open source is kind of a
15:35 must these days um Arc is also only
15:37 available for Mac OS and iOS although
15:39 Windows is on the way and probably worst
15:42 of all is that it requires an arc
15:44 account you sign in um before you can
15:47 even use the browser fortunately it
15:49 doesn't sync any browsing data to that
15:52 account um it uses native iCloud syncing
15:55 instead and their privacy policy is
15:57 actually really nice easy to read
16:00 reasonable um so it does have all of
16:02 that going for it but this isn't going
16:04 to be my go-to choice for anyone looking
16:06 for a private browser by any means up
16:08 next we have Orion browser um this is
16:12 another proprietary web browser for Mac
16:14 OS and iOS it's one of the rare few
16:16 browsers which is based on Safari rather
16:19 than chromium or Firefox which is really
16:21 interesting but it pretty much inherits
16:23 all the same issues as Safari uh as a
16:26 result which means means
16:30 probably I would usually Reserve uh
16:33 smaller Forks like this um to F tier
16:37 because usually browser Forks are less
16:40 often updated they're less reliable that
16:41 kind of thing but Orion does have one
16:45 pretty neat feature on iOS which is that
16:47 it is one of the few browsers on iOS
16:49 which supports some Chrome extensions so
16:52 uh that is useful and cool enough to
16:55 probably warrant a d tier rating another
16:58 Android browser here uh simply called
17:00 privacy browser it's another web view
17:02 based browser for Android much like Duck
17:04 ducko uh and there's not much more I can
17:07 say about it other than uh what I've
17:09 said about duck. go already however
17:11 privacy browser does seem to be worse at
17:13 content blocking than duck. go out of
17:15 the box it is however at least open
17:18 source unlike duck. go so I think I'll
17:20 give it the same D tier rating is duck
17:23 ducko browser but you're probably better
17:25 off with a real browser for Android like
17:27 Brave or mul browser up next is waterfox
17:31 waterfox has kind of a rocky history in
17:34 the Privacy Community uh it was acquired
17:37 by System 1 which was an advertising
17:39 company in 2020 um but then in 2023 it
17:42 emerged fully independently owned again
17:45 um by the original developer so I don't
17:47 know what happened there but it seems to
17:48 be fully independent again and they're
17:50 refocusing on privacy and that kind of
17:52 stuff in a lot of ways I prefer this
17:54 browser over other Firefox based privacy
17:57 browsers like Libra wolf which we'll get
17:59 to in a bit it has fully automatic
18:01 updates for example it has signed
18:03 binaries and it has a really long 12year
18:05 track record which is pretty impressive
18:07 um for a browser Fork like this to be
18:09 around 12 years it shows that they're
18:10 pretty serious about this project the
18:12 biggest downside to me is that waterfox
18:15 is based on Firefox ESR extended support
18:19 release builds rather than the mainline
18:21 Firefox builds ESR builds um for a
18:23 variety of reasons are actually less
18:26 secure than regular Firefox uh they
18:29 receive most of the security patches
18:31 available but not all of them and the
18:35 just being behind on features isn't
18:37 super great in general for web browsers
18:40 it's not an insurmountable problem for
18:42 example tour browser is another browser
18:44 that's uh based on Firefox ESR and
18:47 that's obviously s tier here but
18:49 waterfox just doesn't add quite enough
18:52 to justify using ESR releases in my
18:54 opinion compared to Simply hardening a
18:56 standard Firefox install where whereas
18:58 TOR browser on the other hand adds
19:00 pretty significant improvements which
19:02 kind of either negate the security
19:03 downsides of Firefox ESR or they make
19:06 any security trade-offs kind of worth it
19:09 I'm also not a fan of how waterfox
19:11 claims um on their website that there's
19:13 no Telemetry whatsoever when there is
19:15 some outof the-box data collection for
19:17 things like updates the data collection
19:19 that waterfox does do is pretty
19:22 reasonable in my opinion it makes sense
19:24 um you have to like connect to a server
19:26 to get updates and that kind of thing
19:28 but the marketing for waterfox is still
19:31 I think slightly misleading um which
19:34 isn't great overall I would give it
19:36 probably a probably a c tier moving on
19:39 to ice cat um this is pretty much just a
19:42 fork of Firefox from ganu with non-free
19:45 components in mozilla's branding removed
19:47 I'm not sure I really see the value in
19:50 doing that um it appears to be pretty
19:52 infrequently updated based on Firefox
19:54 ESR releases as well and it hasn't had
19:57 any official releases reles in 5 years
19:59 although its Dev Branch does appear
20:01 current but pretty much overall it
20:03 doesn't really have any real features of
20:05 Note um that I found that make this
20:07 worth considering over just a standard
20:09 Firefox it's probably not even a browser
20:11 that you'll encounter in the wild in
20:13 unless like your Linux package manager
20:15 comes with it because they don't have
20:16 any binary downloads on their site or
20:18 anything um but it's just a d tier
20:23 browser I would say no real reason to
20:25 use it over Firefox proper up next is
20:28 mulv browser and if you've been
20:29 following my work I think a lot of you
20:31 probably know that I'm pretty excited
20:33 about mulv browser mve browser is
20:35 developed by the privacy and browser
20:36 fingerprinting experts at tour project
20:39 in kind of a partnership with mvet VPN
20:42 it's relatively new but it draws on the
20:45 long history of Tor Browser as a result
20:47 of that partnership and it brings all of
20:49 T browser's anti-fingerprinting goodness
20:51 to regular VPN users basically if you
20:54 want like the most privacy protection
20:56 that a browser could give you but you
20:57 don't need the network surveillance
20:59 thwarting features of the tour Network
21:02 mulvad browser gives you pretty much all
21:04 the benefits of tour browser um as well
21:07 as the performance benefits of using a
21:08 VPN which makes it a pretty solid s tier
21:11 browser to me I think it's just
21:13 fantastic that all of this anti
21:15 fingerprinting protection is available
21:17 in a single package you don't have to be
21:19 using mulvad VPN specifically to take
21:21 advantage of muled browser but you
21:23 should be using a VPN of some sort to
21:25 avoid fingerprinting based on your IP
21:27 address
21:28 so that's something to keep in mind in a
21:30 similar vein to tour browser Onion
21:32 Browser is an iOS only browser for
21:35 accessing the tour Network being
21:36 endorsed by Toro project is as good a
21:38 reason as any to consider this a pretty
21:40 good browser however Onion Browser
21:42 doesn't benefit from all the same
21:44 benefits that tour browser does and
21:46 you're going to be very identifiable on
21:47 the tour Network as an onion browser
21:49 user which could allow sides to track
21:51 you uh given how relatively few Onion
21:54 Browser users there are out there it's a
21:56 fine browser for access accessing a
21:59 onion hidden service in a pinch on iOS
22:01 but it's not going to provide the same
22:02 anonymity as tour browser on desktop so
22:06 um I would say B tier but use it if you
22:08 need it on iOS oh our next browser
22:11 is
22:14 Thorium thorium I wish I had never heard
22:17 of this browser to be honest with you
22:19 but I get asked about it all the time
22:21 thanks to it being popularized by Chris
22:24 Titus Tech on YouTube here it was
22:27 immediately
22:28 very clear to me as soon as people
22:30 started asking about it that thorium was
22:31 a bad choice for privacy and security um
22:34 it very infrequently got updates it's
22:37 very far behind it's pretty much a dead
22:39 project even at that time um it's weeks
22:42 and months behind on Chrome updates
22:45 which has a very serious impact in the
22:47 real world because right when I was
22:49 looking at that for the first time a few
22:51 months ago there were some pretty major
22:53 Chrome vulnerabilities that were just
22:55 discovered at that moment which weren't
22:57 p patched and as far as I know still
22:59 aren't patched in thorium and the whole
23:01 situation with thorium has only gotten
23:02 worse and worse since then thankfully
23:05 Chris did eventually post a retraction
23:07 video on his channel um saying that it's
23:10 actually not a good browser after there
23:12 was kind of a development disaster in
23:14 which the thorium developer uploaded a
23:16 ton of um uh questionably legal content
23:20 in furry
23:23 art uh to the source code of thorium
23:26 which got distributed with thorium
23:28 releases which is just insane that that
23:31 could even happen in the first place um
23:33 so very solid F tier please do not use
23:38 thorium browser uh I really just wish
23:42 that Chris Titus Tech had done a little
23:45 more due diligence beforehand and
23:46 avoided bringing this browser to
23:48 everyone's attention in the first place
23:49 because even before that whole
23:51 development disaster it was very clearly
23:53 a bad browser as far as privacy and
23:55 security goes um and is pretty much much
23:58 actively harmful you're probably going
24:00 to get hacked if you use this browser on
24:01 the open web I would say so definitely
24:04 something to avoid up next bromite uh
24:07 nobody uses bromite anymore I'm just
24:08 throwing it in here cuz occasionally
24:09 somebody asked me about it um bromite is
24:12 a very or was a very popular browser for
24:15 Android that's no longer developed um
24:17 since it's 2 years out at date it's
24:20 definitely an F tier if you're using
24:21 bromite please stop but chromite might
24:24 be something that you're looking for if
24:26 you want a better alter alternative
24:28 that's actually still being updated up
24:30 next is florp browser this is a really
24:32 new browser but I have seen a lot of
24:35 people ask about this Firefox Fork um
24:38 after Chris Titus Tech again posted some
24:42 videos about it I guess he didn't really
24:44 learn from the thorium debacle and he's
24:46 out here promoting brand new browsers
24:48 once again but um having looked at it it
24:52 is kind of interesting it's a very new
24:54 browser so there's not too much that I
24:56 can say about it in terms of like
24:58 reliability or anything like that and
25:00 unfortunately it's another browser based
25:02 on Firefox ESR so outside of a couple of
25:06 gimmicks that it has it's pretty much
25:08 water Fox without like the track
25:11 recorder history so I would say d tier
25:15 um but we'll keep an eye on it our next
25:17 pressor is Midori U Midori if you use
25:19 Linux um like 5 10 years ago you might
25:22 be familiar with Midori uh it used to be
25:27 part of the fce project it came as
25:29 default on some popular dros like
25:31 Elementary OS um but the current version
25:35 of my Dory shares virtually no lineage
25:38 with that popular Linux drro of yester
25:41 year um in 2019 a company called asan
25:45 essentially acquired midori's brand and
25:47 they're currently releasing a browser
25:48 which is based on based on florp
25:50 actually which itself is forked from
25:52 Firefox so this like a fork of a fork
25:54 but asan has kind of gone about this
25:56 whole process in a pretty suspect in my
26:00 opinion and opaque way and they haven't
26:02 really given us much reason to trust
26:04 them right now so this is definitely a
26:06 browser that I would avoid um f tier
26:09 there puffen browser uh this is a kind
26:12 of unique browser because it processes
26:15 all of your web browsing on Virtual
26:16 machines in the cloud which is crazy if
26:19 you think about it it kind of defeats
26:21 the purpose of https encryption because
26:23 it decrypts everything that you do
26:25 online on Puffin servers which means me
26:27 that the operator of this browser could
26:30 potentially um access things like the
26:32 passwords you enter any other personal
26:34 information you enter and pretty much
26:36 everything about what you do in the
26:38 browser because the browser itself is
26:40 actually running on their machines it's
26:42 not even running on your machine it's
26:44 also totally closed source so virtually
26:47 nobody really knows what's going on in
26:49 the code besides um Puffin developers so
26:53 it's sometimes touted as a secure
26:54 browser because you're not running
26:56 potentially malicious websites on your
26:58 machine you're running it on their Cloud
27:00 servers but as far as daily browsing
27:02 goes I would definitely avoid that um
27:04 the risks of having all of your browsing
27:07 data just sitting on somebody else's
27:09 computer is uh far too great to to make
27:13 it worth it I would say moving on to
27:15 Libra wolf Libra wolf does a lot of
27:17 things right I would say but it also
27:19 does some things that I'm not really a
27:21 fan of the lack of buil-in automatic
27:23 updates and signed official builds is
27:27 part particularly bad from a security
27:30 perspective uh a lot of libbre wolf
27:32 proponents will say that you can get
27:33 around it with like package managers but
27:36 those typically aren't automatic and
27:38 they also aren't really standard on
27:39 platforms other than Linux and in an age
27:42 where browser zero days and
27:44 vulnerabilities are being regularly
27:46 discovered and exploited in the wild
27:48 automatic updates with in browser
27:50 notifications about them is kind of a
27:52 must for me and also given that the
27:55 Privacy protections of lier wolf can be
27:57 easily achieved in Firefox given some
27:59 hardening like with the Arin Fox config
28:02 I don't think that the more privacy
28:04 protecting defaults are worth the
28:06 security tradeoffs um in comparison to
28:09 Firefox so I would just say it's a solid
28:12 C tier it's probably not something
28:15 special but if you really like it it's
28:17 not going to be the worst browser out
28:18 there and last but not least you're
28:20 ungoogled chromium ungoogled chromium is
28:22 a really neat project in my opinion it
28:24 does exactly what the name suggests it
28:27 removes gooogle from chromium and it
28:30 doesn't do much else um unfortunately it
28:32 doesn't really make a lot of
28:34 modifications beyond that to help people
28:35 protect their privacy and automated
28:38 official builds are only available for
28:40 Macos and Linux it's also another
28:42 browser which again doesn't support
28:43 automatic updates which I really feel
28:45 like should be a hard requirement for
28:47 anyone's daily driver but I still like
28:49 on Google Chromium just as a project for
28:51 some specific use cases or as a
28:53 reference for anyone else building a
28:55 Chromium browser themselves uh so I'll
28:57 say it's a c tier for sure Okay I lied
29:00 that wasn't quite the last one because I
29:01 was editing this and I realized I forgot
29:04 to include the most popular browser
29:06 Google Chrome um again probably no
29:09 surprise to anybody but Google Chrome is
29:11 going to f tier uh because it's Google I
29:15 mean to be honest with you there's
29:17 probably no regaining anyone's trust
29:19 after being forced to pay a$ billion
29:22 settlement um over tracking people after
29:25 saying that you won't track people not
29:27 not a good look for any kind of browser
29:30 uh but I don't think people trusted
29:31 Google in the first place um they have a
29:33 lot of anti-privacy anti-user features
29:36 like manifest V3 and flock which they
29:40 now call privacy sandbox which is all
29:42 just an absolute disaster for the
29:45 private and open web so if you're
29:47 looking for a dropin replacement to
29:49 Google Chrome um definitely check out
29:51 something like brave but there was no
29:53 way Google Chrome was getting any more
29:55 than enough I think we all saw that
29:57 coming and that pretty much does it let
29:59 me know in the comments if I'm
30:00 completely off face about this or if you
30:02 agree feel free to have your own browser
30:04 Wars this is all just my opinion based
30:06 on my experiences with these browsers
30:09 and if there's any takeaway from this
30:10 video uh stop using Google Chrome stop
30:13 using Microsoft Edge use uh something
30:16 like Brave something like hardened
30:18 Firefox or even better try using
30:20 something like tour and see if it works
30:22 for your use cases
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