On the run up of #DataPrivacyDay we've asked the Tuta Community about your preferred Google alternatives.
Here's what you said about your favorite browsers! 🎉
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@Tutanota Firefox is also proprietary software, and you should avoid the binary distributions of Firefox by Mozilla. However, Firefox can become free software as long as it gets its name changed - Firefox's source code is under MPL, and what makes Firefox proprietary is only its trademark. So you can try Iceweasel, GNU IceCat, or you can build your own browser from Firefox's source code with its trademark stripped out.
LibreWolf, Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser are ideal choices.
@Tutanota Vivaldi should be totally avoided since it is proprietary software that is unethical and unjust. Also with source code unavailable it can also contain backdoors and surveillance.
I don't know whether Brave have software freedom issues or not, but it is unavailable in almost all free GNU/Linux distributions' official repositories, including but not limited to Debian, Trisquel, Guix, Parabola, etc. Therefore there should be software freedom concerns with Brave and you should be careful.
@Tutanota Personally, I use Mullvad Browser and it's great for everyday use on Linux! Also it is the best middle ground if you want Tor Browser's fingerprinting protection without the slowness that comes with it. And for Android there is IronFox, much much better than the default Firefox imo.
@Tutanota Go for it, Zen 🚀
@Tutanota I really want to love Zen and Firefox on mobile is fine. But there was too much hassle in the end so I went back to Vivaldi. I love the native side bar.
@Tutanota I wonder how the choice to bake AI into Firefox and Brave is going to change this list?
@Tutanota For search, Kagi is preferable to Brave.
@Tutanota Brave seems like an irrational choice.
Niccolò Venerandi (Open Source, KDE development) on why not to use Brave: https://youtu.be/pektPYhM7pw
But there is no reality in which an ordinary person uses Tor for everyday internet surfing
@Tutanota I knew that Firefox gonna win 😎
@Tutanota I wish these were browsers' usage statistics for Internet community in general 😁