Best privacy-focused browser that allows for adding extensions?
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PMUSR dunno, look at their website or use aurora or f-droid
I'd suggest you read the section on the website about Vanadium: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
This part is especially relevant:
We recommend against trying to achieve browser privacy and security through piling on browser extensions and modifications. Most privacy features for browsers are privacy theater without a clear threat model and these features often reduce privacy by aiding fingerprinting and adding more state shared between sites. Every change you make results in you standing out from the crowd and generally provides more ways to track you. Enumerating badness via content filtering is not a viable approach to achieving decent privacy, just as AntiVirus isn't a viable way to achieving decent security. These are losing battles, and are at best a stopgap reducing exposure while waiting for real privacy and security features.
That said, you are obviously free to use whichever browser you want to use. I don't want to give the impression that this kind of discussion isn't accepted here just because it goes against any official recommendation. Just wanted to share this here since it's relevant and it's a good idea to know the pros and cons of the various options.
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If you don't need to use autofill, hardened Brave is my choice,though doesn't allow extensions on Android. If you need to use autofill, IMO, hardened Firefox works best at the moment.
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router99 Its supposed to mean a version of Firefox that is hardened as much as possible by configuration, though Firefox is insecure by design.
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router99 Hardening a browser (in this case firefox) means going in and tightening security settings to make it more "secure/private" (hardened). E.g., enabling settings like https only, clearing all browser data on exit (cookies, history, etc), de-selecting all forms of opt in telemetry like anonymous data anaylitics send off, installing some extensions like uBlock, etc. Bassically, tighten your security settings to what you deem is necessary for your purposes.
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router99 Then why did you ask to explain "hardened firefox"?