How good is the anonymity and security in minimalist browsers?

How anonymous? This relies on 2 main factors

  • The anonymity set size. This is the amount of participants that wear the same “outfit”, and are reasonably considered indistinguishable.
  • The above strongly relies on the anonymity “outfit”, so this outfit has to be all encompassing, hiding all that is unique to you. Tor browser is made for this exact purpose. I’m pretty sure minimal browsers like Surf, and terminal browsers are not specialized in hiding all unique parameters. While arguably it has less parameters, there also still many unconsidered and probably also above the paygrade of the developers to even consider them.

And thanks for posting this post, it made me curious about different ways of browsing the web wich decrease distractability.

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