Browsers

Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to privacy and an open web. Unlike Chrome, Firefox does not have a built-in advertising ecosystem that profits from tracking your activity across the internet.

• ▪Enhanced Tracking Protection — blocks third-party trackers, cookies, and fingerprinting scripts by default
• ▪No built-in ad network — Mozilla doesn’t profit from your browsing data; Google does
• ▪Open-source — the entire browser codebase is auditable
• ▪Container tabs — isolate crypto sessions from regular browsing to prevent cross-site tracking
• ▪arkenfox user.js — a community-maintained configuration that hardens Firefox to near-maximum privacy levels
• ▪No Chromium monopoly — independent engine; not controlled by Google’s browser engine decisions

Chrome is the most popular browser worldwide, but it’s built by Google — a company whose primary business is advertising and data collection. Chrome’s design choices favor Google’s ad ecosystem over user privacy.

• ▪Tracks browsing history — if you’re logged into a Google account, your browsing is linked to your identity
• ▪Third-party cookies — Chrome has been slow to block trackers (delayed phase-out multiple times)
• ▪Google Topics API — replaces cookies with Google-controlled interest profiling (still tracking, just rebranded)
• ▪Extension ecosystem risk — Chrome extensions have been caught injecting malicious code into wallet pages
• ▪Chromium monopoly — Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi all share the same engine; Firefox is the only major alternative

Beyond Firefox and Chrome, several alternative browsers offer different privacy and security trade-offs worth considering.

• ▪Brave — Chromium-based with built-in ad/tracker blocking; has a crypto token (BAT) which some see as a conflict of interest
• ▪LibreWolf — a hardened Firefox fork with maximum privacy settings out of the box
• ▪Mullvad Browser — a Tor-like privacy browser from the Mullvad VPN team, designed to minimize fingerprinting