Firefox is kind of a sticky situation, because while they changed their ToS, removing some terms about "sale of data" to comply with overbroad legal terminology, they didn't actually change their privacy policy. The internet freaked out, because Mozilla did a shit job of explaining the change, and now it exists in a space where it's lost a lot of community goodwill.

I still use it, though, and I think it's good that you mentioned that you have to configure it to be more private. I'll have to check more into Waterfox, too.

Thanks for making these guides!

Worth noting here that Orion is made by Kagi, a privacy focused search engine.

Vivaldi has native ad-blocking and it's quite good. The top extensions were always better, but I never see ads and most of the time YT is fine with maybe 12–24hrs of annoyance at times waiting for updated lists. Consider it 95% uptime for YT, 100% for all else.

What telemetry is Apple receiving from Safari?

Not to sound heartless, but the nasty political leanings of Brandon Eich are less important it this context than the fact that Brave is spyware and a cryptominer.

I'm in the process of reworking all older guides as I've learned a lot along the way. Will be posting them over the coming week or two.