Its actually pretty important that some normal traffic does flow through tor. If you dont mind the speed then its perfectly okay* to do all your web browsing through tor
*there are some caveats here but its not about the network really
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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Great opportunity to mention Brave is owned by a dipshit right-wing homophobe.
Always has been.
Right beside the fact that their monetary model relies on user activity tracking. Yet they advertise privacy.
A browser that had a seemingly unlimited budget for advertising before it even had users is suspicious as hell.
I've never trusted brave.
And funded by a right-wing billionaire who owns the largest corporate intelligence agency on the planet. Your data is not safe with Brave.
Except your data not being safe with Brave doesn't depend on who owns it. It's a technical conclusion that should follow from technical traits of a system. Those are such that using a modern web browser to do modern web things is not secure period.
You identify as a liberal politically, don't you?
I didn't see Waterfox mentioned in the article or comments, so I'm giving it a shout out now. Firefox is still my #1 browser, which I have synced to all my critical accounts, and use very cautiously, only using a few trustwothy extensions. However, when I want to explore unfamiliar domains or experiment with lesser-known browser extensions, I've relied on the equally dependable Waterfox browser. It's fast, free, and 99% the same as Firefox except it's a completely different app so you can basically have 2 Firefoxes set up and customized for completely different roles. Between the two, I can keep Chrome frozen on my phone and off my desktop (although I have a portable Chromium on USB for emergencies).
You do know Firefox has profiles you can use to effectively make it two (or more) separate browsers?
Not shitting on Waterfox, just FYI.
I do, and have used them in the past. However I've had issues with the profiles getting corrupted. Could be user error ;) Installing Waterfox was easier than trying to sort out my profiles.ini and so as you know, nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix :D
I have Waterfox setup as an alternative browser but it does not have much stuff to differentiate itself from mainstream FF, as you said.
Of that list, Zen is the only one really worth considering. And then you have the “but the best one that supports widevine” issue.
Zen is also being developed by an asshole who doesn't even understand the code he's working on, by his own admission. I wonder if he's fixed the backdoor he added to it yet.
Firefox is still great, and Tor Browser is fantastic.
I'm personally checking out Mullvad Browser.
Tor is good for onion sites, but do people use it for general web browsing? Wouldn't it be super slow?
Yes, and you should too because more "natural" traffic helps protect people who need it (journalists, political dissidents, etc). For mostly text content, it's fine.
Sure, if you want to wait 3 minutes for your all-text site to load.
It's not that bad, it's a handful of seconds.
Yes basically unusable in my experience.
Eww opera, at least it's slightly better than opera gx
Edit: TOR? I stopped treating this guy seriously once I read this. Nobody uses TOR for regular browsing. They're full of shit.
I tried Opera GX because it advertised the ability limit RAM consumption, and then I found out that the lowest it could go was 1GB which was not as low as I wanted.
Some bullshit. If you want to lower raw then just close out your tabs
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