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  • I had an 8AM flight across the country. Got up around 5AM, drove to the airport. On the way it was delayed by 2 hours, meaning that I would miss my connecting bus. Okay fine, had to rebook that for an extra $75, what can you do my schedule permitted that sort of delay, although the cost was undesirable. I sat and had some nice sit-down breakfast. Then I got the notification that it was delayed by three hours. I once again had to cancel and rebook on the last available bus, and was now going to get in at around 8PM instead of 3PM, with a four-hour bus ride to immediately follow. There were issues with the plane that needed to be figured out, which delayed take-off by almost two extra hours. After the 3.5 hour flight, the baggage was delayed by hour after getting off the plane. I missed my bus, had to book a hotel at two in the morning, accidentally booked the wrong bus for the next morning and had to book a fourth, got four hours of sleep, then got on a bus to my final destination.

    So what was supposed to be about 9 hours of travel ended up taking around 28 😐 (and around $600 extra but thankfully the airline paid for that)
















  • These are all the browsers I personally think are good and privacy-respecting. Sorry if I accidentally included too many options.

    Desktop

    Firefox-Based

    Firefox

    The standard for browsers where you aren’t the product. For maximum privacy it does require tweaking settings, but it is reasonably privacy-friendly out of the box. It has light customization options including a sidebar and customizable button placement, and can be much more heavily customized with user themes.

    Librewolf (Most reccomended for privacy)

    A custom version of Firefox with enhanced privacy by default. Comes with Ublock Origin installed. May break some websites.

    Waterfox

    A Firefox-based browser with some additional privacy features, enhanced speed, and additional features.

    Floorp

    A browser based on Firefox with much more advanced customization options and many additional features, like workspaces and web panels. Doesn’t add any additional privacy-focused features. They recently also added support for chrome extensions. This is my personal choice of browser (with the Natsumi modification).

    Zen Browser

    A Firefox-based browser with a sidebar+workspace workflow, and lots of stylistic changes and customizations that help put the focus on the webpage. Very nice and usable for productivity, but doesn’t add any additional privacy-focused features.

    Chromium-Based

    Ungoogled Chromium

    It’s Chromium, but without Google. Pretty self-explanatory, it’s simple, and it works.

    Vivaldi

    An extremely customizable browser packed with a massive quantity of additional features that can be toggled and tweaked for varying needs and methods of usage. Doesn’t add any significant privacy-focused features. It supports MV2 extensions.

    Helium

    A chromium-based browser with enhanced privacy and speed. Comes with Ublock Origin pre-installed, and supports MV2 extensions. It’s a pretty new project.

    Android

    Firefox-Based

    Firefox

    The de-facto privacy-friendly browser, although for maximum privacy it does require tweaking settings. It (and its forks) are the only privacy-friendly browsers on android that support extensions.

    Waterfox

    A fork of Firefox with more private defaults, and extra bloat removed.

    IronFox

    A hardened private Firefox fork. Heavily focused on privacy and security, it sacrifices some usability for privacy.

    Chromium-based

    Cromite (Most reccomended for privacy)

    A chromium fork with enhanced privacy and built-in ad blocking.

    Vivaldi

    Very customizable chromium-based browser. It does not come with an ad-blocker.

    iOS

    All browsers on iOS are limited to the WebKit engine which Safari is built on, so just use Safari. The benefits of other browsers on iOS are negligible.