| Mozilla Firefox |
Telemetry and phoning home is enabled by default, altough most of them can be disabled in about:config. |
Google |
MPL-2.0 |
Tracker blocking |
No |
I haven't found a way to disable every request that Firefox makes trough about:config. Avoid. |
| Google Chrome |
Telemetry, phoning home and additional spyware features are enabled by default and it can't be disabled. Made by one of the biggest tech companies for the cattle for massive data collection. |
Google |
Proprietary |
- |
Yes |
AVOID AT ALL COST!!! |
| Microsoft Edge |
Telemetry, phoning home and additional spyware features are enabled by default and it can't be disabled. Microsoft's horrible Chromium based spyware. |
Bing |
Proprietary |
- |
Yes |
Avoid at all cost |
| Opera / Opera GX |
Sponsored multiple YouTubers and websites to shill their spyware. Telemetry, phoning home and additional spyware features are enabled by default and it can't be disabled. Owned by a Chinese consortium since 2016 (Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership). Had a shady past. |
Google |
Proprietary |
Free Opera VPN which is probably used to harvest user data |
Yes |
Chinese spyware, avoid |
| Brave |
Makes requests on startup. They had a "bug" in the past that leakead IPs of those who used the built in Tor window. They did URL injection in the past to earn money via referral programs. |
Brave Search |
MPL-2.0 |
Tracker and ad blocking, built in Tor window |
Yes |
Avoid it |
| Abrowser |
Makes a few requests on startup, because some spyware Firefox features are not disabled (e.g.: firefox sync) |
DuckDuckGo |
MPL-2.0 / GPL-3.0 |
Tracker blocking |
No |
This is like the rolling release version of GNU Icecat. Icecat does a way better job at removing Firefox spyware so you should just use Icecat |
| Tor Browser |
It sends requests to torproject.org and to Mozilla when you start it, however these requests can be disabled. |
DuckDuckGo |
BSD 3-clause |
Your identity is hidden thanks to the Tor network. You can change the browsing mode and the safest disables JavaScript, heavily blocks cookies, disables canvas and gives you additional privacy features |
No |
Recommended, just don't use DuckDuckGo |
| LibreWolf |
It makes a few requests on startup, however these can be disabled. |
DuckDuckGo |
MPL-2.0 |
Disables multiple privacy concerning features and has ad block (uBlock Origin) |
No |
Recommended, just don't use DuckDuckGo |
| Falkon |
It updates the adblock list in the background on first startup, but nothing else. |
DuckDuckGo |
GPL-3.0 |
Ad block |
Yes |
Recommended, just don't use DuckDuckGo |
| qutebrowser |
None |
DuckDuckGo |
GPL-3.0 |
Ad blocking (not advanced), uses Vim keybinds |
Yes |
Recommended, just don't use DuckDuckGo |
| GNU Icecat |
None |
DuckDuckGo |
MPL-2.0 / GPL-3.0 |
It has multiple privacy respecting addons (e.g.: LibreJS) and features. |
No |
Recommended, just don't use DuckDuckGo and make sure that you use an up-to-date build. GNU Guix has recent binaries. |
| Ungoogled Chromium |
None |
None, you have to set one yourself |
BSD 3-clause |
- |
Yes |
Recommended |