What browser+plugin combination do you all use for safely browsing the web? I use Firefox and uBlock Origin, but I'm sure there are better options out there. What do you all use?
slutwithguts · 2025-06-25 01:19 [#99][report] my browsing activity is not safe at all icl T^T i use google chrome and adguard adblocker, return youtube dislikes and turn on matpatify from time to time when i feel like it
bradtober · 2025-06-25 02:34 [#101][report] For the majority of this school year, I was actually using Pale Moon for 99% of my browsing. I followed these guides from https://gearjail.neocities.org and from https://digdeeper.club to have a sensible experience. Whenever I had to do school work on a bad platform (like google docs... :( ), I had Firefox 115 ESR with uMatrix, a UA switcher, and a few miscellanious extensions like SingleFile, although they went unused because that Firefox was only really used for school, while everything else could easily be done on Pale Moon.
I haven't really been keeping up with my web browser security, though. My entire system is using dnsmasq-encrypt as a side-grade to prevent my ISP from pulling any funny tricks on me.
I'd say that unless you aggressively optimize the websites you visit with uMatrix, it's extremely difficult to minimize the amount of spying that goes on as you browse the 'net. :(
I guess that's why there are alternatives, ways to avoid dealing with that altogether, like this awesome site. :D
Whenever I have to inevitably use YouTube, I prefer to use the Ikatube project, since it lets me watch videos without ads and without having to deal with YTs horrible and slow interface :annoyed:
https://chino-chan.gitlab.io/programs.html
Ariel · 2025-06-25 03:14 [#102][report] if you want maximum security use tor browser or something lol
Cr0s5H34D_QA · 2025-06-25 18:19 [#107][report] >if you want maximum security use tor browser or something lol If I am not mistaken, you can install extensions on Tor. and if so, can't you just use Ublock on tor browser? Then pair it up with Mullvad VPN for more Protection? (Even yes, tor uses their own VPN)
webmaster · 2025-07-01 11:25 [#125][report] There's always a tradeoff between privacy/security and work/time and personally I'd say Tor is a bit slow and impractical for everyday use, although it is one of the safest options.
I use Librewolf, a fork and hardened variant of Firefox (since Mozilla has started doing crappy stuff) with quite a few plugins. EFF's privacy badger is a great recommendation, it isn't very powerful but should be pre installed in every browser as it is very effective on major tracking.
For android I use Fennec, another Firefox fork, but also a browser called FREE Browser from F-droid. It isn't very secure or good but it's simple and has essential features so I use it for when my fennec config is too harsh and breaks wepsites.
webmaster · 2025-07-01 11:27 [#126][report] Me and my friend started a list compilation of some of our daily privacy tools including browser, you're welcome to read or even contribute: https://github.com/anonuser1213/Internet-Essentials
RandomAmerican · 2025-07-06 18:54 [#141][report] Kinda funny (sad?) how the average person still uses Chrome and thinks Incognito Mode is “privateâ€. Like buddy you’re not anonymous, you’re just... invisible to your wife. Google still sees everything.
Anyway yeah, I’ve been slowly swapping over to Librewolf too. FF is alright but Mozilla’s been slipping further into that weird pseudo-corporate blob space lately. Too many “recommendations†and “experiments†suddenly showing up in vanilla installs. Not a good sign.
uBlock Origin is essential obviously, but I also use:
CanvasBlocker – decent for screwing with fingerprinting
ClearURLs – removes garbage from URLs (tracking tokens and the like)
Cookie AutoDelete – kinda annoying sometimes, but worth it
NoScript or uMatrix – depending on how masochistic I'm feeling that day
I avoid VPNs unless I need to hop regions. I don’t really trust any of them fully. Mullvad is probably the best of the worst if you’re paying. But using Tor is smarter for anything sensitive, IF you can tolerate the latency and weird site behavior. I don’t use it daily for the same reasons others here said—too slow, breaks stuff, and honestly I hate how most normal websites don’t even try to play nice with it anymore. You get CAPTCHA'd into oblivion.
Also F-Droid browsers? God bless them but yeah, some of them break sites for the dumbest reasons. Fennec’s config is cool but I had to reset a few things just to get a login page to work.
And even with all this? We’re still probably leaking something somewhere. Your fonts, your resolution, how fast you scroll, how long it takes to click after the page loads. It’s kinda hopeless.
Real privacy is probably just minimizing surface area and not doing anything online that you wouldn’t want on a billboard.
But yeah. Librewolf + uBlock + sane behavior is about the most I think we can get without completely unplugging and mailing letters instead. Though I’m honestly not opposed to that either at this point.
Anonymous · 2025-08-22 00:00 [#202][report] what the fuck is with your font? >thread tax: librewolf, umatrix
Anonymous · 2025-09-09 01:16 [#391][report] Pale Moon remains king in the privacy browsing world, despite being shat on by tech illiterates because it doesn't support the latest React JS slop (ignoring the existence of the SubWebView extension, which let's you load sites using the Chromium engine INSIDE OF PALE MOON).
This, combined with a fortified and minimalist Linux setup or a 15 year old version of Windows creates the comfiest and most secure browsing experience one could get without delving into even more deeper layers of tech autism.
Anonymous · 2025-09-16 12:28 [#463][report] You may need to do some additional configuration with pale Moon before you start using it, though. The creator is a bit adamant on security violating shit in their browser despite it's benefits.
I might post a full PM config guide here soon, actually. Much better than outdated guides from Spyware Watchdog or barely informing guides like Gearjail and what not.
I'll be telling you what to do, how specifically you do it, and WHY you do it.
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 14:25 [#777][report] The same old tired and cliché answers.
> if you want maximum security use tor browser or something lol
This person's words leave me utterly speechless. This is to be expected from a thread that does not know the difference between privacy and security. You seem to confuse the concepts of privacy with security.
Attempting to find the origin of such claims could be a thread in itself. Listen up, pal. Tor Browser doesn't have an edge in security over Firefox. Firefox itself isn’t deemed secure by many standards Chromium is. I encourage you to visit https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/index.html. Educate yourself instead of spreading misinformation over the internet.
Tor Browser isn't particularly exceptional. Likewise, Librewolf does not hold up well either. The reason for this is their subpar defaults. I won't even bother addressing Palemoon.
You're certainly fortunate, if by chance none of the nodes you encounter on your Tor route are based in Germany or the USA. Even more so if you don't have 2 or 3 nodes from the same country.
> Pale Moon [...] most secure browsing experience
> Librewolf + uBlock + sane behavior is about the most I think we can get without completely unplugging and mailing letters
> Then pair it up with Mullvad VPN for more Protection? (Even yes, tor uses their own VPN)
What an incredible compilation in the same thread. This is enough to tell that you don't need to know what real "privacy browsing" really means.
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 14:28 [#778][report] >The same old tired and cliché answers What do you use for browsing the Internet privately then?
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 14:57 [#781][report] >>52075 So what's wrong with Palemoon, and how do you keep yourself private while browsing the net?
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 15:08 [#785][report] > What do you use for browsing the Internet privately then?
Custom-built Firefox, no clearnet, devoid of JavaScript and any non-essential features. Custom tor configuration.
For clearnet, my choice of browser is generally influenced by specific requirements and preferences at any given time.
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 15:14 [#787][report] > So what's wrong with Palemoon
It's obsolete. That is a double edged sword. Moreover, its configuration does not match my usual criteria. It had long lost its light and that is easily seen in its administration. Basically, you can't do anything worthwhile with it.
I won't even bother with you if that's how you view it. Case closed and happy life.
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 15:22 [#789][report] >I won't even bother with you Why do you trust that using Windows 11 in S mode is the most secure way to use Windows?
>For security, use Chromium. Avoid Firefox or browsers based on it, as they are currently very lacking in security. >use chromium >Microsoft Edge is a better choice for Windows users >Use Signal >use a reputable email provider with a strong focus on security, such as ProtonMail or Tutanota. >GrapheneOS on a Pixel >Do not root your device, do not keep your bootloader unlocked and stay away from alternative operating systems
>Alternatively, use an up-to-date iPhone >which is comparable to GrapheneOS >do not jailbreak your device
You are the most obvious fucking mole I've ever seen.
Anonymous · 2025-10-11 15:47 [#790][report] This is a classic straw man fallacy. I've presented you with a link that correctly compares the security implications of using Firefox and Chromium, whereas all you're doing is distorting and creating a fabricated position, of which I have no recollection of ever having.
Willfully doing that only makes a fool of you, but you're free to continue if that's how far you process information.
It seems that I correctly predicted the narrowness of this thread. I won't bother further.
Primary browsers: Tor Browser Bundle, Mullvad Browser, IronFox.
Primary extensions: uBlock Origin.
Anonymous · 2025-10-12 05:20 [#822][report] I use palemoon with umatrix, noscript and vimperator. That's the only web browser configuration that doesn't give me ass cancer.
Anonymous · 2026-01-16 20:48 [#1994][report] I seperate my tasks, and for each one of them has a pre configured enviroment, for example when I'm posting I'm on palemoon + umatrix + user_agent modified + redirector (to direct heavy sites to their alternative front ends). all this is routed throu tor If I need to do some youtube I have youtube-local running in the background, coupled with redirector any youtube link I click becomes the best watching experience no js no ads And if I want to do some irl stuff I have a qemu artix thats configured to a Firefox operating system (running firefox without a window manager on boot) I tried alpine but it's pain in the ass I hate it I try to stay off the web and use gopher when wasting time. frens should relize that surviellance is enabled at the protocol level, and if you are willing to fight surviellance you should disable the whole protocol.
Anonymous · 2026-01-17 04:25 [#1998][report] most secure web browsing is with wget and cat -v
GrapheneOS: Vanadium Stock Android: Google Chrome iOS: Safari Windows 11: Microsoft Edge (the default and only browser with defense-in-depth) macOS: Chrome or Safari Secureblue: Trivalent
You should use the default browsers most of the time because installing additional browsers adds more parties to trust.
Avoid non-Chromium browsers and browsers which support Manifest V2.
Additional tips
Do not install any extensions. Instead of insecure, privacy-compromising adblockers (uBlock Origin), use the reader mode.
rave ## MOD · 2026-01-20 14:38 [#2098][report] >>4378 >2 posts in this thread >FUCK OFF FED >the aforementioned fed: Anonymous 2 posts in this thread false flag operation
Reasons to NEVER use extensions (not even "trusted" permission-less Manifest V3 ones like uBlock): https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9897812 https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-extension https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploiting-ad-blockers-with-css https://www.imperva.com/blog/the-ad-blocker-that-injects-ads/ https://palant.info/2020/02/25/mcafee-webadvisor-from-xss-in-a-sandboxed-browser-extension-to-administrator-privileges/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint#Browser_extensions https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/rilide-a-new-malicious-browser-extension-for-stealing-cryptocurrencies/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.16321.pdf https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-browser-extensions-are-the-next-frontier-for-identity-attacks/ https://palant.info/2025/01/13/chrome-web-store-is-a-mess/
Anonymous · 2026-01-22 21:04 [#2204][report] >>4498 >https://github.com/RKNF404/chromium-hardening-guide >https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploiting-ad-blockers-with-css absolute gems, thanks for sharing these
>https://github.com/RKNF404/chromium-hardening-guide#popular-options >Fedora disabled CFI again The top goys at the Pentagon Red Hat keep it disabled (closed wontfix btw): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2425338 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/blob/rawhide/f/chromium.spec Bonus: Most distros compile firefox with many hardening options disabled or misconfigured (like CFG/CFI and LTO), check them Bonus 2: Tor browser (from the torbrowser-launcher) doesn't use FORTIFY_SOURCE, stack clash protection, stack protector, uses an outdated rust version. Avoid tier.
TL;DR: "Privacy" (and secure) browsing is a spook.
Anonymous · 2026-01-22 23:47 [#2205][report] >>4498 > actual expert what makes that person more actually an expert?
Anonymous · 2026-01-23 13:38 [#2226][report] Chrome isn't a monopoly. It's a standard. Avoiding it is like using gopher to avoid the http "monopoly" or plaintext to avoid the html "monopoly".
>>4501 For security reasons, you must avoid using Linux at all costs. People only use it because ideologies, to support the underdog, or Microsoft and Apple are the evil boogeymen.
Anonymous · 2026-01-25 12:11 [#2268][report] For PRIVACY I would say mullvad browser is probably the sanest anti-detect browser that is FOSS right now (it's pretty much tor browser bundle, literally it is tor browser bundle but it shoves shit up mullvad (or your own choice of proxy)
Now if you're going to roll your own, which you probably should, I would say run with https://github.com/enetx/surf
this is gonna get you past 99% of the cancer of the internet if you learn to use this fucking library. heavily depends on you learning it, though. this little nigger can spoof JA4/JA3 and spoof chrome pretty good, but you might need also some other libraries in whatever it is you are building a client for
ultimately your vision should be to replace websites with software clients written for your desktop and to remove the web browser from your workflow imho
to this end, maybe RSS can also be useful.
now, i will also say to the point of using surf there's probably one group of retarded faggots who i can forward you to, and they might just make you some money too
BlackHatWorld
these retards know everything there is to know about scraping
Anonymous · 2026-01-25 12:49 [#2273][report] >>4587 Another /g/ verbatim repost > For PRIVACY I would say mullvad browser is probably the sanest anti-detect browser that is FOSS right now https://desuarchive.org/g/search/text/For%20PRIVACY%20I%20would%20say%20mullvad%20browser%20is%20probably%20the%20sanest%20anti-detect%20browser%20that%20is%20FOSS%20right%20now%20/
LMAO
Anonymous · 2026-01-25 13:02 [#2275][report] >>4593 Fuck you and fuck /g/. The original posters are free to post here instead.
Anonymous · 2026-01-25 13:04 [#2276][report] >>4595 >reposting from /g/ is fine but FUCK YOU if you notice it! lol
Anonymous · 2026-02-24 03:26 [#2601][report] >What browser+plugin combination do you all use for safely browsing the web? You have to decide whether you want functionality or safety. Modern web browsers are so insanely complex that there always will be a plethora of vulnerabilities. Even Tor Browser is too complex for its own good, and is only "private" or "anonymous", if you even grant it that, but certainly not "secure", because you cannot expect such a huge behemoth of a software to not have a million exploits for them.
If you want safety while browsing (disregarding functionality, privacy, and anonymity), you should use Links in graphical mode. Or dillo, Netsurf, lynx, or w3m, or just curl, but even curl is too complex, maybe don't use the web if you want to be secure...since I'm 100% sure Links in graphical mode is not what you are looking for, hence just accept that the modern web is inherently insecure, and every "security addon" and about:config change you do is just trying to do the impossible, which is to make millions of lines of code, which every web browser is this days, "more secure".
Anonymous · 2026-02-24 05:57 [#2604][report] A lot of psy-opping and cargo culting in this thread.
I know that I can't be 100% private/secure/anonymous on the internet or on the web, but my comfy setup is Librewolf + a bunch of add-ons (including uMatrix with JS disabled by default) + Tor routing. I also have another Librewolf profile running that has less add-ons and is not routed through Tor (goes through a VPN) for websites that block Tor. Also using Linux, of course.
Some people fearmonger about fingerprinting and that using the Tor network is of little use if you're not using Tor Browser with no add-ons, but I don't like that idea because it sounds like "you vill ovn nothing and you vill be happy". I'm using the opposite strategy which I've heard from DigDeeper where I try to make my fingerprint unique but I rapidly switch it on purpose (I use an add-on which randomizes my user agent every few minutes), instead of keeping a generic one for as long as possible (the good goy Tor Browser way).
But still, I don't feel entirely confident, and maybe I'm still less anonymous than using vanilla Goy Browser. But at the same time, I like my setup, and my goal is not having the perfect schizo setup because as I said earlier you can't truly achieve that. I guess for general corporate/government spying my setup is fine enough, and I can live knowing that the Mossad or some Russian superhacker could get me if they really wanted to, since that's an unlikely scenario.
However, I'd like to look into Palemoon again (partly due to contrarianism). I tried it in the past and then returned to Librewolf, but maybe the next time I'll enjoy it more. Can any Palemoon user tell me why I should use Palemoon?
Anonymous · 2026-02-24 07:27 [#2611][report] >>214 >Whenever I have to inevitably use YouTube, I prefer to use the Ikatube project, since it lets me watch videos without ads and without having to deal with YTs horrible and slow interface :annoyed: >https://chino-chan.gitlab.io/programs.html Where's the source code? Why would a random guy make a niche software and make it proprietary? Malware much?
Anonymous · 2026-03-03 23:48 [#2726][report] >What browser+plugin combination do you all use for safely browsing the web? No matter if you disabled jewscript and have 17 poxies behind the Browser, There's no secure way to browse the web, specially if you're using trannyfox or chromium. want security? do it offline.
But when I want to browse the web, I use Hardened Firefox+ublock on Arch Linux inside Virtualbox running on FreeBSD.
Anonymous · 2026-03-03 23:51 [#2727][report] >>10321 Don't forget about the TCP/IP and HTTP/2 fingerprint
Anonymous · 2026-03-04 22:28 [#2735][report] The Lesser Evil III: Reasonably Anonymous General Browsing on Today's Internet http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wdbqd.onion/opsec/56333
>lets you just flat out turn off javascript >lets you just turn off images >should just work. no extra dependencies >takes 10 minutes to compile on bad hardware >not chrome >and not firefox >just GTK+
A no logging VPN Firefox with arkenfox config Extensions: NoScript UBlock Origin I still don't care about cookies Vimium ClearURL's Decentralyes
Some people might say all these extensions are bloat and all I need is Ublock Origin. UBlock isn't blocking javascript and if I block javascript on a browser level, entering sites where I need or trust the javascript isn't a simple toggle. Vimium has keyboard bindings for a browser that just makes sense for me. The rest of my extensions are safe and self explanatory
Anonymous · 2026-03-16 19:32 [#2955][report] >>10590 Oh, it's another one of those mememalist LARP browsers that actually uses WebKit, so it's almost as bloated as the big browsers (Chrome and Firefox-based) while lacking their add-on ecosystem, so you get the worst of both worlds. The only "minimalist" browsers worth anything are the ones with their own independent web engines like NetSurf and Dillo.