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Judging by a default browser is also really misleading. Firefox is by far the most private with extensions, no competition.
What extensions would you recommend?
This is just my personal list
I go pretty hard core while making sure it "just works". People will mention LibreWolf, but the fingerprint resistance causes too much breakage for me. I install uBlock Origin no matter what, enable every single filter except the language lists. I install Dark Reader and set it to a timed schedule which is comfy for me.
Then I install NoScript then enable "Temporary set top level sites to trusted" and enable media under the trusted tab. This fixed majority of the breakage, but you sometimes need to tweak it. You can just not use NoScript if it's too much of a hassle, uBlock Origin does basically everything you need anyways.
Also of course if you're using stock Firefox, make sure to turn off analytics and telemetry in the settings, go to
about:configand setpocket.enabled(or something like that, idr) to false. Then I set my default search to duckduckgo.You can use ublock in advanced mode and replace noscript I think
I've had good experience with LibreWolf, but disabling the resist fingerprinting is QoL compromise with privacy easily accomplished in the settings.
Awesome, thank you!
uBlock and the right Firefox settings is good enough in my opinion, you can go really crazy with just those two things but you'll also break a lot of sites, I found a middle ground that I like.