Chapter 3 – Browsers

Chapter 3 – Browsers

Your browser has a lot of identifying information and can lead to many attack possibilities from trackers big tech and your local government use to profile you. To hackers trying to trick you into visiting their fake site and download viruses. For the upmost of anonymity and with very good security the Tor browser is possibly the only answer, and for that will be covered later in its own section. For those that want/need faster speeds and being able to connect to website (Tor is blocked a lot) your average browser will be what you are using, chrome, Firefox, edge. Right off the bat before recommending any changes or extensions to add onto your browser I do recommend you not use chrome, a good alternative would be Brave, it is based off of chromium (same thing chrome is based on) so the foundation is the same, but Brave comes with a built in add-blocker, has settings to increase privacy and a feature called “Brave Talk” a private video/audio conference tool free up to a call of 4 people. I would also recommend Firefox, it is my main browser with a bunch of settings changed. Mozilla has stated they are for privacy and will continue to build their browser for it. You can also download LibreWolf a Firefox clone with improved privacy settings set as a default. On any browser you choose the most basic settings you should enable are HTTPS only mode, block 3rd party cookies, and unless you have Brave install the Ublock extension by Raymond Hill. Keep in mind none of these browsers will give you as much anonymity as Tor will but are much faster, wont be blocked by some sites and are best for downloading streaming etc.

For mobile browsers Brave is the top choice, with the same settings listed above. Using different browsers for your phone and computer is no issue at all as for any accounts you will have a password manager holding all that info, more on that below.

Side Note
Little side note, using HTTPS on websites means you are using encryption no one can see what is being sent back and fourth only that you are connected to the site, They can see the sites you are connected too just not what is being sent back and fourth. That is why its always good to use HTTPS (especially when logging into banks, emails, etc.) Also it is known that the governments and some higher tier hacking orgs are doing something called “store now, decrypt later” which involves capturing encrypted traffic and storing it till quantum computing is at a point where it is easily cracking these encryptions (projected 10 to 20 years) and then sort through the data at that point.