Best Browser?

[TwoTankAmin]

As far as I can tell the one place I see no Google trackers is their search site.
 
No way Firefox/Mozilla is even close to the big 3. Market share for a browser is not = revenue for a vompany Apple, Google and Microsoft gross billions very 3 months. Paying Mozilla 300 mil is spit to any of the big 3.
 
If you run Ghostery and go to Google search- no trackers get blocked. Come here and it blocks a Google Analytics tracker. Almost anywhere I go Google wants to track me, except its own search site it seems.
 
But the most important thing I do to insure my privacy is I never go to facebook or twitter (or other social networking sites) for any reason.

 

[dredgy]

Microsoft, Apple and Google make peanuts from their web browsers though, so if you're strictly speaking web browsers, Fx is one of the big players. Chrome would make more money I'm assuming, but I highly doubting IE and Safari make anything. Opera makes about $11m profit a year.
 
 

Almost anywhere I go Google wants to track me, except its own search site it seems.

 
Thats because on its own site, it doesn't need to embed stuff into your page source since it has it all server side - which Ghostery could not pick up, let alone block. At the very least, whenever you hit search your IP address and search term is logged. Even if your IP addresses are dynamic, or you go to the extreme of using a proxy, they can almost definitely trace you. You want track-free search, use DuckDuckGo.
 
 

But the most important thing I do to insure my privacy is I never go to facebook or twitter (or other social networking sites) for any reason.

 
See, seems pointless to me. If these sites logged my IP address, name, address, phone number I would not be too phased since a)No human ever views that data  b)If they did, what can they do with it? 
Apart from sending me spam calls/texts or mail (for which they are legally liable for) there is not much they can do with that information. They just want my data to target  ads at me, and they might as well target me with something that vaguely interests me rather than bulk viagra ads.
 
Facebook or Google would never sell of their data since it is their most valuable asset.
 
 

Thank you this is very useful info., I have not heard of Opera before but will be seriously considering it based on this recommendation.

 
Yea give it a try, might not be for you but is always good to try everything.

 

[levahe]

I don't get the paranoia people have with 'tracking' and online privacy. Unless you are up to no good, what's the problem?

Do you wear a balaclava when you roam the streets so no one knows where you have been lol

 

[bodge99]

Hello,
 
Have a look at Pale Moon. It's a Firefox offshoot... It can use all of the Firefox plugins and overall, it is much leaner (It has none of the Firefox "bloat".
 
Bodge99

 

[RCA]

Thanks, will check it out.  
Still on Chrome at present, download Opera but need the time to transfer everything!
Finding Chrome a lot faster than FF was and PC is not freezing/crashing as it was before.

 

[Ciddire]

We converted all of our client base to Google Chrome shortly after April 8th (YAY XP is dead!!) I've been a chrome user since the beginning.

I can't wait until IE dies off, I'm tired of writing custom CSS rules for my sites because MSFT can't figure standards out @_@

 

[konvasmel]

Best is of course chrome... For me

 

[NickAu]

Being a Linux user I use firefox with a few plugins.

On Windows I am working on my own browser. LOL

Its a work in progress.

 

[DutchMuch]

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