LastPass is compromised. They have had 2 security breaches back to back, and the 2nd breach happened for the same reason as the 1st. Because they care so little about their security of their users, I highly urge you to consider some alternatives.
Never use Chrome, but there are some reasons to use a Chromium fork browser.
On privacy, just using Pale Moon gives them like 10 bits of signal to id you with on top of all the other things they can use. That's huge. Brave looks like any other Chromium except with fingerprint randomization for lots of things.
Also the more Chromium forks there are the harder it is for Google to make changes because they have to keep the forks from splitting off on their own.
For example with the new manifest to limit adblocking, if Brave/Edge/Vivaldi/Opera don't accept that change then Google's 75% market share drops to maybe 60% or something like that and those others are virtually identical except with better features so it's easy for people to switch.
Google has already delayed manifest v3 by 4 months so far for this reason. They say "intently monitoring comments from the developer community to help inform our timelines" and what that means is "finding some way to do it without losing the forks".
You've got it backwards. Almost all google chromium and firefox browsers will implement MV3. Some might try to keep WebRequest from MV2, but they'll still follow google Web Extensions, and will have to either Hard Fork or do massive jumps through hoops to re-engineer it when google removes all support for MV2.
Pale Moon can be setup and configured so you don't give out any identifying information. Unlike Brave. Pale Moon also does fingerprint randomizations, instead of fingerprint uniformity, but PM does it with so much more stuff than Brave.
The more chromium forks there are, the greater hold google has on the internet, and fingerprint uniformity only works by restricting usage of the browser. No customizations, no addons, no nothing. It's the wrong way to tackle anti-fingerprinting.
Pale Moon didn't score as well as a new Brave profile, with Pale Moon having a non-randomized canvas, GL, number of cores, and audio fingerprint whereas in Brave these are all randomized. Pale Moon screen size approximates the actual screen size whereas in Brave reported screen size is not similar to actual screen size.
But it doesn't even matter that Brave is more private by default. They all give out so much info that if you want to have multiple personas it's best to use different browsers for each; use Pale Moon and Brave.
You show that you don't really know what you're talking about sadly. coveryourtracks doesn't work on Pale Moon (Bad Request
Request Line is too large (8192 > 4094), which is why I left that one out in my post here about fingerprint tests..
"canvas.poisondata (true/false, v25.6+): Controls whether to mitigate browser fingerprinting through canvas rendering specifics.
This preference, when true, will poison data read from canvas areas with humanly-imperceptible variations in color and lightness.
Defaults to false; accurate reading of data is generally preferred, and poisoning severely impacts performance of reading data from canvas." -from 2013
They also randomize the addon order, and other things.
Screen-size spoofing and such can easily be circumvented, since most code "resisting" such fingerprints don't do enough (https://archive.is/kN0D5).
I do agree about compartmentalization, but one should use the best privacy and customizable browser as a main one, and use LibreWolf for the few sites that insists on implementing the latest google experimental "standards", and those "standards" only. Brave is the least worst google chromium browser, but it's still a google chromium browser..
DNS blockers will become irrelevent when ads are served as first-parties on sites, which goes hand-in-hand with googles MV3 and Shadow/DOM push. As well as PWA's. Just a PSA ;)
Ads that run on decently-administered first-party sites are much less concerning than third-party ads from a security perspective.
Shadily run first-party ads running third-party code are, as always, a risk.
I don't much care if you want to load a picture and a hyperlink, but if you want to get any more complex than that, I am going to take issues with your site serving ads at all.
Adblocking is already a massive nuisance on Twitch and they are essentially serving their own ads, for me the only thing that works is a chrome extension in Brave, same extension fails to work in Chrome.
You can use Legacy FF addons for PM now. They quickly realized their mistake. That Person, is also banned, so it's much better overall.
LastPass is compromised. They have had 2 security breaches back to back, and the 2nd breach happened for the same reason as the 1st. Because they care so little about their security of their users, I highly urge you to consider some alternatives.
I don't use Password Managers at all, and wouldn't really recommend others to do so either. You have to trust a lot more stuff than just yourself. The company behind it, the encryption, the cloud storage, etc. https://password-managers.bestreviews.net/faq/which-password-managers-have-been-hacked/
As for LastPass, it worked in 2022 (https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28758&p=232592#p231532) & (https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28758&p=232592#p231564)
Don't use closed-source, web/cloud based password managers.
https://keepass.info/
Plebs! I had been using them since they were still a part of Netscape!
When I read the post title I was like "damn, totally forgot Firefox was even a thing".
Never use Chrome, but there are some reasons to use a Chromium fork browser.
On privacy, just using Pale Moon gives them like 10 bits of signal to id you with on top of all the other things they can use. That's huge. Brave looks like any other Chromium except with fingerprint randomization for lots of things.
Also the more Chromium forks there are the harder it is for Google to make changes because they have to keep the forks from splitting off on their own.
For example with the new manifest to limit adblocking, if Brave/Edge/Vivaldi/Opera don't accept that change then Google's 75% market share drops to maybe 60% or something like that and those others are virtually identical except with better features so it's easy for people to switch.
Google has already delayed manifest v3 by 4 months so far for this reason. They say "intently monitoring comments from the developer community to help inform our timelines" and what that means is "finding some way to do it without losing the forks".
You've got it backwards. Almost all google chromium and firefox browsers will implement MV3. Some might try to keep WebRequest from MV2, but they'll still follow google Web Extensions, and will have to either Hard Fork or do massive jumps through hoops to re-engineer it when google removes all support for MV2.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/mozilla_opens_testing_for_manifest/
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/09/24/vivaldi-ad-blocker-manifest-v3/
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/09/29/brave-browser-manifest-v2-extensions-after-v3-update/
https://forums.opera.com/topic/50569/manifest-v3-opera/2?_=1682676951014&lang=en-US
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/tag/manifest-v3/
Pale Moon can be setup and configured so you don't give out any identifying information. Unlike Brave. Pale Moon also does fingerprint randomizations, instead of fingerprint uniformity, but PM does it with so much more stuff than Brave.
The more chromium forks there are, the greater hold google has on the internet, and fingerprint uniformity only works by restricting usage of the browser. No customizations, no addons, no nothing. It's the wrong way to tackle anti-fingerprinting.
You're always giving out identifying information. What matters most is how you are using a browser, and you can check with something like:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Pale Moon didn't score as well as a new Brave profile, with Pale Moon having a non-randomized canvas, GL, number of cores, and audio fingerprint whereas in Brave these are all randomized. Pale Moon screen size approximates the actual screen size whereas in Brave reported screen size is not similar to actual screen size.
But it doesn't even matter that Brave is more private by default. They all give out so much info that if you want to have multiple personas it's best to use different browsers for each; use Pale Moon and Brave.
You show that you don't really know what you're talking about sadly. coveryourtracks doesn't work on Pale Moon (Bad Request Request Line is too large (8192 > 4094), which is why I left that one out in my post here about fingerprint tests..
and Pale Moon do randomize/poison the canvas data (https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3357&p=19126&sid=a96d404e4e2fc7c7d66c4a6adf13ea32#p19126):
"canvas.poisondata (true/false, v25.6+): Controls whether to mitigate browser fingerprinting through canvas rendering specifics. This preference, when true, will poison data read from canvas areas with humanly-imperceptible variations in color and lightness. Defaults to false; accurate reading of data is generally preferred, and poisoning severely impacts performance of reading data from canvas." -from 2013
They also randomize the addon order, and other things.
Screen-size spoofing and such can easily be circumvented, since most code "resisting" such fingerprints don't do enough (https://archive.is/kN0D5).
I do agree about compartmentalization, but one should use the best privacy and customizable browser as a main one, and use LibreWolf for the few sites that insists on implementing the latest google experimental "standards", and those "standards" only. Brave is the least worst google chromium browser, but it's still a google chromium browser..
DNS blockers will become irrelevent when ads are served as first-parties on sites, which goes hand-in-hand with googles MV3 and Shadow/DOM push. As well as PWA's. Just a PSA ;)
Ads that run on decently-administered first-party sites are much less concerning than third-party ads from a security perspective.
Shadily run first-party ads running third-party code are, as always, a risk.
I don't much care if you want to load a picture and a hyperlink, but if you want to get any more complex than that, I am going to take issues with your site serving ads at all.
Adblocking is already a massive nuisance on Twitch and they are essentially serving their own ads, for me the only thing that works is a chrome extension in Brave, same extension fails to work in Chrome.
Isn't Waterfox kind of sus now? Since it was sold to an advertisement company a few years ago.
Yup. System1 of google frontend Startpage,also dogpile, as well as the bad Startmail, etc.