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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I currently use a few browsers on various platforms:

  • Mullvad on Linux and macOS
  • Firefox (w. Arkenfox User.js) on FreeBSD
  • Safari (w. extensions & privacy settings changed) on iOS

However, I am finding the absence of any sort of cookie persistence in Mullvad and Safari to be a little annoying, as just about everything I use has 2FA enabled.

So, I was wondering what you would say a good choice for a second browser would be. I would use this to access a small number of privacy-respecting sites (such as CloudTube and Lemmy), which would involve saving cookies and allowing third-party content (i.e. googlevideo in CloudTube). Ideally, this should be Firefox or WebKit-based, and I would like suggestions for Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and iOS.

On macOS, I have not signed in with an Apple ID, so I can't use the App Store; but I do have Homebrew and pkgsrc(7) installed.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I am NOT moving away from Mullvad. I'm looking for a COMPLEMENTARY browser which I can use for stuff like CloudTube.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

Your threat model is unclear to me, so I'm a little confused as to why you don't just use Firefox across all platforms. You could use multi-container support to stay signed in on certain things and clear cookies in others iirc.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

LibreWolf or maybe ungoogled chromium ...or Firefox with arkenfox's user.js

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ungoogled chromium need to be hardened since its goal is to be a drop-in replacement of chromium without google.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Firefox on Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD should do it. Use container tabs to keep accounts separate. It's what I use, and it works well.

If I need a Chromium-based browser because a site is broken, I use Brave as a backup because they have ad blocking that actually works. I don't remember the last time I launched it though.

I don't know about iOS. Everything on iOS is Safari under the hood, though if you're in the EU, that could be changing soon. I don't know enough to recommend any of them though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I use Safari as my super-protected browser on MacOS and iOS, and if I have problems on a site I switch to Firefox with fewer privacy extensions. It's a pretty good system, but I am going to look up your Arkenfox thing, as I haven't heard of that before.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Long story short, it's a set of scripts that make Firefox better, at the potential expense of breaking some websites.

LibreWolf comes with some of Arkenfox functionality with less pain in implementation.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Orion browser is good for iOS and macOS.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Was buggy as hell for me on iOS

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm confused. Are you deleting everything nonstop on Safari? Because 2fa should be persistent on default.

As for a mullvad alternative, maybe librewolf.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm using Librewolf. The problem is that when cookies are deleted some sites will want to text you to "authenticate" your browser again. Your name and password alone are not enough.

It gets old doing this repeatedly. And it pisses me off that they act like they are being so secure by doing this yet they use a text instead of an authenticator app.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You can set exceptions per site in LibreWolf. Would that solve your issue?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It just might. But my problem might still be that I have my entire history and cookies are deleted as they age past 28 days so anything that I only rarely return to is lost. I might have to check into exceptions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

your need sounds perfect for just using ungoogled chromium out of the box. make sure you turn off the switch for deleting data on exit, and you're good to go.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Tor Browser

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

elinks or w3m

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Mozilla based, I use LibreWolf. Chromium based, I use Brave or Vivaldi.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I use Librewolf on my laptop for most browsing, but I keep Google Chrome open just for Gmail, calendar, and drive. I know what you mean about losing the damn cookies making you suddenly have to get a text to authenticate again and that sucks.

When I come across those sites I usually just pull them up in Chrome instead since I keep it open anyway. They are typically not tracking sites anyway and I'm using an adblocking DNS.

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