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Browsers I recommend as daily-drivers

Pale Moon is an open-source browser released back in October 4, 2009. It is by origin a Firefox fork but it has changed a lot these recent years, mainly because of the default Firefox client doing so as well. There are major design and interface differences between Firefox and Pale Moon as of current. It also no longer supports extensions that are made for Firefox and it instead features its own extension system. It has a good privacy policy and it's a browser suited for just that, privacy. It still has multiple advantages over the currently most popular browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome. Some of these advantages are less vulnerabilities, more room for customization and it doesn't depend on any major corporation out for your money and data. However there has still been a few issues surrounding Pale Moon under the recent years. The biggest one in my opinion would be the fact that they removed support for Firefox extentions. Doing so removed a ton of useful extensions that users would benefit from and it says a lot about the development team behind Pale Moon. Another issue is that since update WebAssembly is now enabled by default. For the people that don't know what WebAssembly is, it basically makes it possible for the browser you're using to compile different apps and programs, "Why is this a problem?", you may ask. It's a problem because of the useless nature behind it and the security vulnerabilities that will sooner or later come with it. Ungoogled-Chromium is an amazing and fast browser completely separated from the evil entity known as Google. It blocks every single connection to the Google network and it makes sure that no spyware is left remaining in the software. Unlike the first listed browser on this website, the guy behind the development of Ungoogled-Chromium is a much more professional guy and he's a ton more open to criticism. The Pale Moon developer known as Moonchild was often found closing threads and accusing them of being "offensive" even though they were just trying to show their own opinions and thoughts about the decisions he made. The problem with Ungoogled-Chromium is that it heavily depends on Google and its engine known as Chromium. I very much doubt that the project will be up long enough for us to see a more privacy-minded internet experience. It's a lot of work for one guy and constantly having to apply solutions to the privacy problems Google's Chromium has to offer is very demanding. It's not entirely based on Chromium though since he has been seen using patches that other projects such as Bromite has laid out, but it's still a ton of work for just one guy.

Browsers I don't recommend at all

Contrary to popular belief, Tor Project is not actually the best browser for anonymity and privacy. It is often seen being worshipped as some kind of miraculous saviour to all of mankinds problems regarding browsing the internet as safely and privately as possible, but that's just not true. There are a lot of problems regarding Tor Browser and they are often not even spoken about in the privacy branch. Let me start with the first one. The first one is of course the fact that Tor Browser chooses to automatically install and update the software unbeknownst to the user. Automatically installing updates may sound good to the average person, but that person often doesn't realize the risks that come with it. That very feature can feature an array of issues. Automatically installing software can feature new bugs and vulnerabilities that the previous versions didn't have. If you've ever used Windows 10 or iOS, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. It is the exact same for Tor Browser. It's good that it features patches to old vulnerabilities in the new updates but I'm a strong believer of it being the choice of the user to install an update or not. The second issue being the fact that Tor Browser refuses to let you connect if you're running TorDNS system-wide. There are way to many to list all at once, but you get the point. Oh wait, we have another one! Tor Browser deleted a ticket criticizing Cloudflare for their evil antics and business practices. You may not know it but Cloudfare is a very shady company, they're often found blocking connections made by ironically enough, Tor Browser, VPN:s and they do shady "browser checks" on certain people. I didn't even scratch the surface on Cloudflare yet but you can find more information and criticism about them on Digdeeper's post about Mozilla.