Link: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/aae20e06-8772-4d38-90b3-1057fed5291c

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:48 Sponsor: Proton VPN

01:59 Criteria for ranking

03:42 Chrome

05:56 Ungoogled Chromium

07:17 Microsoft Edge

08:26 Brave

10:17 Vivaldi

11:50 Opera

12:31 Firefox

15:22 Floorp

16:29 Librewolf and Waterfox

18:05 Zen Browser

19:43 GNOME Web

21:03 Orion

21:36 Falkon

22:29 Conclusion

23:44 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Report on Opera and their owner:

https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnaround/

Opera bought by Chinese consortium:

https://www.engadget.com/2016-07-18-opera-browser-sold-to-a-chinese-consortium-for-600-million.html

Brave's attempt at replacing ads:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1694797/brave-browser-begins-controversial-ad-repeal-and-replace-tests.html

Brave replacing affiliate links:
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/brave-ceo-apologises-for-adding-affiliate-links-to-urls

And as with every other of these browser lists some flavor of the month new firefox-based one wins. One that might or might not still exist in that form in another year (here it's one that only exists as firefox release-based for a year - before that is was a fork from some old firefox version or even based on chrome at some point). 🥱

00:48 nope, legitimacy lost.

ungoogled chromium and floorp were the top tier, only one of them is ff based, neither one of them is new, both are weird choices for the top.

Tor is also noteworthy to be mentioned.

CIA honeypot

Then again, the guy recommended Proton

It ain’t really his top.

He said in the video that he uses Floorp and Chromium so he can’t put them in another tier.

What he thinks is best is in the tier under.

What convinced you it’s a honeypot? I’ve been reading about it lately but remain unconvinced. Just curious

I believe the theory is it’s possible to de anonymize tor by controlling a majority of exit nodes which some people believe the government does

Another one to check out is I2P if you haven’t seen it

Makes sense, thanks for the response. I’ve set up I2P on my computer but haven’t used it much yet. I love the concept though

Proton is legit.

Don't confuse privacy and anonymity.

So he has ungoogled chromium, and floorp as top tier, uses them, but doesn't see them as the best

Then he has vivaldi, watefox, librewolf, and zen in 2nd tier, but they are the best ones?

It's like a tier list on reddit, someone just wanting to look at the pretty pictures while not making much sense

Some obvious omissions too: firedragon, mullvad, tor, ddg

Its not just the exit nodes, you also need to control the entrance nodes to pinpoint people in the network.

That is an expensive arrangement which I doubt the CIA or defense industry would put money towards to surveil people going through the network.

That makes sense good add, thx!