Browser Privacy Debate

Users discuss and recommend privacy-focused web browsers like Firefox forks (LibreWolf, Waterfox), Brave, and alternatives to Chrome, emphasizing privacy concerns and comparisons between Gecko and Chromium engines.

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Sample Comments

attentive Feb 22, 2023 View on HN

It's bad for privacy. Worse than chrome IMHO. For me it's either firefox or brave.

1MachineElf Feb 5, 2021 View on HN

How about Brave as a Chromium-based alternative to Firefox that isn't worse for the cause?

skinnymuch Sep 30, 2017 View on HN

The github repo shows it compares poorly to Firefox for privacy.

Zekio May 6, 2019 View on HN

The only alternative to firefox is a chromium based browser these days (such as Opera, Vivaldi, Chrome, Edge(coming soon TM)), but firefox is more or less the only browser that really cares about privacy lately

NuSkooler Jul 13, 2024 View on HN

The suggestion to switch to Chrome is pretty rich. Firefox is more privacy conscious Chrome even with this enabled.

g_b Jan 1, 2019 View on HN

Iridium browser seems like a good alternative. It is firefox with a focus on privacy.

majinuub Jan 24, 2022 View on HN

I've heard really good things about Librewolf, which is a privacy focused fork of Firefox.https://librewolf.net/

zeropointsh Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

Ah, I recommend LibreWolf - A hardened fork of Firefox, stripped of telemetry, with privacy settings locked down by default.

t0bia_s Feb 3, 2023 View on HN

I prefer a fork of Firefox, focused on privacy: https://librewolf.net/Highly recommended.

bigbugbag Mar 18, 2022 View on HN

Modern firefox is called librewolf or waterfox.It respects privacy and works quite well (Actually much better than chrome based browser on my machine).Mozilla management seems to be the issue, not firefox itself.