We’ve explained why Google Chrome probably isn’t your best browser choice, so now we’ll guide you into switching to a browser that focuses on privacy (hint hint: it’s Firefox).

Extensions Mentioned:

• (TOS;dr) Terms of Service, Didn’t Read
• Canvas Defender

• Containers
  • Facebook Container
  • Google Container (with Integrations)
  • Amazon Container
  • Twitter Container

• Not mentioned, but useful
  • uBlock Origin (lightweight adblocker)
  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (sets some of the episode-mentioned preferences automatically + switches your default search engine to DuckDuckGo)
  • Decentraleyes
    

Sources:
YouTube Using Deprecated API:
CNET, 2018 July 26, ‘Mozilla engineer says Google slowed YouTube down on non-Chrome browsers’

‘Canvas Fingerprinting’:
BrowserLeaks, Canvas Fingerprinting Test Page

‘First Party Isolate’ Functionality:
gHacks, 2020 April 17, ‘Mozilla adds Dynamic First Party Isolation option to Firefox 77’

Firefox Sync’s Future (in the works):
Mozilla Services Github Repo, ‘Future of Sync blog post’ Issue

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