 Hi, I'm Denshi, and in today's video, that's right, I'm talking about web browsers, even though I've never actually touched that topic on this channel before. Weirdly enough though, because this channel is all about privacy, security, all this stuff, and web browser's one of the biggest liabilities when it comes to that. Now, I'm just telling you, if you're out here using Firefox, Google Chrome, whatever, let me just open up default Firefox. Just show you what state this browser's in, right? You open it up and look at what you get. You get blasted with corporate art. You get blasted with crap. Look, you get this corporate art with this lady on a skateboard and this frog. Like, who wants these frogs? Nobody wants these frogs. And in fact, when you're done setting it up, it's even worse. Done setting up, look at this. You're surrounded by Amazon ads, YouTube, Wikipedia, Reddit. Just because they put Reddit on the front page just dismissed this browser immediately, right? The same thing goes for Google Chrome, of course, but obviously, more importantly, these browsers track you. That's just a fact. They send information back to, whether it's Google or Mozilla or whatever, and just between you and me, both of these companies are basically in cahoots. Google sends a bunch of money to Firefox to make Google the default search engine over here. Like this Google button over here probably costs them like millions of dollars, right? Or even billions. And that money, it kind of gives Firefox and Centip to not really compete that much. And it's not a nice landscape, the modern browser landscape. However, we can fix it. We can fix this. And I'll show you how. I'm gonna show you the three browsers you can use that have no tracking, that respect your privacy, that have lots of security features, and are actually usable. Like websites work on them, you can log in to all your stuff, and I'm gonna show you them today in order of usability. So let's start with the classic, the one that everyone on this channel knows, because I always use it in all my videos. It's my favorite one, that's un-Googled Chromium. I'll have all these linked in the description. You can check them out. And if you open un-Googled Chromium by default, as you can see, it's blank. It's Google Chrome with every single little bit of Google stripped out of it, as the name implies, un-Google. Another interesting thing you might notice about un-Googled Chromium is if you try to search something in the search bar, so I type, you know, I type in Denshi, it doesn't work. That's because by default, the search bar only accepts domains. So I can type in Denshi.org and I'll access my website, but I can't just type in a word like Denshi. Now, I'm gonna tell you, if you go down to settings and go down to search engine and change this to say being or yahoo, let's put duck-duck-go, probably the least worst option out of those, right? Although not the best. Oh, I might make a video on alternative search engines in the future. But once you've selected duck-duck-go, you can actually type in over here, Denshi or whatever it is you're searching for, and you'll get duck-duck-go and you'll also get a result of me. Look at me, check it out, Denshi.org. That was great. I didn't know I was on the front page of duck-duck-go, but anyways, that's how you can get search in this browser, which by default is disabled. That's how minimal we're talking here. It's so stripped down, it doesn't even have search by default. Another thing you might wanna enable is cookies. So if you go to youtube.com, normal cookies are enabled, but third-party cookies, which are needed to sign in across services, say on like YouTube, Google, all the stuff. See this little eye with the cross in it? The third-party cookies are blocked. And if the site is not working, you can actually enable them. I'll show you how to enable them in the settings as well. You can go to privacy and security, go to cookies into the site data. And if you wanna just be safe about it, make sure that every website works. You can click on Allow All Cookies and all cookies will work. But what I like to do is like to block all cookies because I'm like that, you know? And then I go down here and I can add exceptions to the websites that I want to be allowed cookies. So just to be as safe as possible, I'm gonna add the brackets and a star on a dot, which means every subdomain, and then Google.com. So the brackets over here, that basically means that www.google.com, docs.google.com, account.google.com, every subdomain of Google.com will work. And I'm gonna include third-party cookies because Google requires those to function. And I'm also going to add another service. I'm gonna add youtube.com. So with these two options, I can now sign in with Google on the browser without having to enable all cookies. Of course, the same functionality would be possible if I just clicked Allow All Cookies, but that would allow cookies across every website. And that's not exactly safe, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, you can also add a Do Not Track request for extra privacy. And yeah, in terms of privacy settings, that's about it. There's a few more security settings you can add. Like you can always use secure connections. You might want to enable that. Secure DNS, you can add encrypted DNS. And yeah, that's pretty much it. There is one more thing you wanna though, which is you wanna do this, right? Is to get extensions in the browser. This is a bit of a, you gotta jump through a few hoops, but it'll work once you get it set up. So if you click on Web Store over here, it doesn't work. That's because the Chrome Web Store, by default, relies on underlying Google code, which is not present in this browser. If I go to chrome.google.com into the Web Store, if I go to the Chrome Web Store, as you can see, I try to click on an extension, like let's say you block origin, there's no button to add it. That's because the code in the browser to add it is gone because everything Google related, including the Web Store functionality, has been stripped from this un-Google browser. So to add that functionality back, you wanna get this tool called Chromium Web Store by a developer called NeverDecaf. So NeverDecaf develops this tool that basically allows you to automatically update and install all the extensions you want. So by go down here, there's an option for Google Chrome that you have to enable if you want this to work. So you wanna copy paste this link, this extension, mine request handling link. So I'm gonna copy that link, I'm gonna paste it up here. And as you can see this highlighted flag, we wanna go to default and always prompt for install. As soon as it downloads an extension as a file, it will automatically try to install on the browser, which is the functionality we want for the Web Store to work. So if you click on relaunch over here, as you can see, we're back at it again in the browser and we can go back to this over here. And as you can see, the button still isn't there because we haven't installed the actual extension. So we go down here to releases, click on Chromium Web Store and it'll prompt us to install it. So we can click on add extension and there it is, that's great. So now we can go down to you block origin, down in Chromium Web Store, reload the page. And as you can see, you can now add to Chromium. So we're gonna click on this button, add to Chromium and there it is, you can add you block origin. There we are, the extension has been installed. It's did right over here. That's how you get extensions on this browser and that's pretty much it for un-Google Chromium. You can get extensions, you can set up all the different settings for privacy, cookies, all that stuff, the search engine. Yeah, I mean, that's how I personally use it. Although by default, I actually have it set up to load up in dark mode, which is a lot prettier, I think. And in fact, my website also has dark mode. Check it out, it's pretty cool. But yeah, that's pretty much it for un-Google Chromium. Let's look at our second option today, which is LibreWolf. Now there's a video by my friend, Vicky The Chills. I'll have the link in the description where he goes a lot more into detail about LibreWolf and its philosophy and stuff like that. But it's basically Firefox fixed up. It's like Firefox with all the privacy features enabled and set up. Also, you had to customize those too. If you go to the actual LibreWolf website, LibreWolf.org, I think it is. As you go to this website, you can go to docs and it actually shows you how to customize the browser on the settings and overrides section. So there's a file called LibreWolf.overrides.config. Now this is where I'm gonna get technical, all right? This is where we're gonna get a bit technical because we have to open up our terminal. Oh no, scary to do this, or at least I do because I use a text editor in the terminal. So we wanna go to directory from our home directory, right? So home directory is tilde, forward slash dot LibreWolf, right? And we wanna go into this directory and we wanna create a file called LibreWolf.overrides.cfg. So we're gonna just copy paste this name. And in this file, we can add different settings that customize the functionality of the web browser. So if you scroll down here, there's a few different common ones. One I'm gonna enable is letterboxing. So let's say I wanna go to denti.org, right? By default, the website fills up my screen. Now, if you don't know this, you can do websites through this very sneaky thing where they automatically track your resolution size. Now, my website doesn't do that, but a lot of websites do that using JavaScript code. And what they do is they basically check your resolution and use that to fingerprint you to check if you come back to a different website. They can use it to track you basically. To fix this problem, you can enable something called letterboxing. You may have seen this in Tor browser where the browser by default boxes off the website. I'm gonna show you how to change that over here. So I'm gonna copy paste this option. Now I'm gonna put it down here in our LibreWolf config. I'm gonna write and quit this and then. And now if we reload the browser, just close it and open it again. And then we go to a website like denti.org, for example. As you can see, there we are. We got a complete border on the website which prevents us from being tracked. So, well, from being tracked and resolution wise, at least to some extent. But yeah, there's a lot of other things you can check out in the LibreWolf documentation. I'll leave this all linked in the description so you can check it out and customize anything. So just in case like a website breaks, like I don't know, Discord, I think doesn't work by default on LibreWolf. You have to like customize a few things in it. Just in case stuff is breaking, just go to settings and overrides and you can probably find an option in here that fixes that, right? LibreWolf is a pretty good option if you want a browser which has a lot of cool features by default. It actually has UBlock Origin installed by default. I didn't have to install this, it just is installed. It's great because you want that tracking removed from a browser. So it's great to have that installed just with the browser without having to go through and customize stuff without having to go through and install the extension, just like I had to do in Uncle Gold Chromium. So LibreWolf has a lot of advantages but if you want to get in and actually make it usable, you have to go through to this LibreWolf overrides and to customize a few things. So finally, here's the twist of the video, right? This is the part where it gets interesting. The browser, that's the hardest to configure but actually has a lot of options and interesting things you can do with it privacy-wise. You're never gonna believe this. It's actually Firefox. That's right, Firefox. The one I was just complaining about in the beginning of the video. There's something called ArkonFox. You can check this out. I'll have this linked in the description but it's basically this user.js customizing file that you can get that automatically removes a bunch of really annoying features in Firefox. So you might be tempted to download this and install it manually. There's actually a script of which does it for you and if you're on Archix or Arch Linux, this is actually in the AUR. So you can search for it ArkonFox and there it is, ArkonFox user.js. I have this installed and I'll show you how to do it on the terminal. So closing Firefox for a bit. If you type in ArkonFox updater, it'll automatically find your Firefox profiles. Now you're going to want to select the default one. So the default one over here is 8-R-Y-L, whatever, the one that ends in release basically. And that's always gonna be profile zero pretty much. So you click on zero and it will select it and set up the ArkonFox in profile zero. Just type Y over here and there it is. Now it'll give you this warning that says could not find overwrite file, user overrides. And that's fine because I'm gonna show you how to set that up later. But now that we've installed just default ArkonFox, right? If we open up Firefox again, as you can see, it's blank. Every single piece of annoying, stupid corporate art and annoying stuff has been stripped from this. And that's fantastic because we can go through and use it like a normal browser. If you go to denti.org, as you can see, it also has a letterboxing enabled by default. So it's got that security features. It's got a bunch of other stuff. So there's actually a user overrides file that I have in my home directory, this one over here, just with all these default options. This comes from Luke Smith, actually. I'll have this link to the description. It's down in .config and then firefoxlarbs.js. This one over here has a bunch of different options, which I guess are good sane defaults. Like, you know, it gets rid of Reddit, which of course, you know, I'm not a big fan of. So you can go through and download this file. I'll have this link in the description. But basically you wanna move that file user overrides to, you know, .mosella, actually, firefox. And then the default release profile. So eight, R, Y, whatever it is, right? The one that ends in release. Once you've done that, and if you run arcandfoxupdater, right? And then you select profile zero and type Y. As you can see, it says override file appended, useroverrides.js. So now if you open up firefox, as you can see, it's got even more things removed, like the pocket functionality is gone. There's a bunch of other stuff that's been customized. And you can also go through here and set stuff like, I don't know, you can go through and change the security settings, like add cookies and site data. Like you can add extensions, sorry, exceptions, like you could back in Google Chrome. So let's say I wanna add, I don't know, Google.com as an extension, as an exception, right? You can allow Google.com cookies and stuff like that. And you can also clear histories at different times. And there's a lot more granular control in Firefox than there is in Chrome. Like you can really go through here and make it your own browser, like really customize a lot of stuff. And you can go through and check out the Arc and Fox. I really do recommend going to the Arc and Fox GitHub page, checking out all the different options you can customize. It's all in the wiki actually. So down here in the wiki, you can go through and decide whether to use it or not. And basically all the common overrides and different security features you might or might not want to enable. I won't get too deep into this because this is something I might have to make like a whole video about customizing it. But basically, if a website isn't working, you can probably find an option in this wiki and I'll have this link in the description once again where you can customize different things that make the browser work with a website so it's not working. But this is, I would say the solution is quite extreme in terms of privacy and security. But if you're out there, you're really looking for the best private option like almost tour browser levels of security for your regular everyday browsing. This isn't a bad option, you know? But anyways, you know, those were all the browsers I had to showcase in today's video. I've been Denchie. I hope you learned something at least educational from this video. Check them all out. They're all in the description, like I said. And yeah, I've been Denchie. This is a video about web browsers. Goodbye.