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Zen Browser: A New Privacy-Focused Browser(Firefox) (techwavearena.com)

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[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm always skeptical when something is called privacy focused and the article lists no privacy features.

Does this actually provide any new unique privacy features or is it something akin to arkenfox where it is just getting everything upstream from firefox?

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Privacy wise it very much is still Firefox with different defaults (telemetry disabled, do not track enabled), the changes to upstream are mainly the UI and some performance enhancements

[-] wwwgem@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

When I first heard about Zen, I've tested it with EFF like I do for all web browsers I experiment with (from most mainstream to most unknown). Unfortunately, it doesn't offer a full privacy.

Not everyone cares, but if this is something important for you, Librewolf has been the only one to come up with a full privacy protection result. Maybe you could achieve a good result if you use Arkenfox with Firefox... I didn't try it.

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

This is fantastic. Thank you. I didn't know EFF provided this service.

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Shoutout librewolf i b on that whenever the site i want loads lol

[-] wwwgem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Some sites don't load because of some features disabled in Librewolf. You can enable them and have the sites load, but it defeats the purpose of the Librewolf configuration choices. Nonetheless this is still an option :)

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

With the current browsers panorama, it's important to use more than 1 browser. My main browser is Librewolf, then Brave for work, and Mullvad for all the rest. The reason being that almost every site is made to work first on Chrome and everything else is an afterthought (so I use Brave for those).