A DECENT BROWSER

The internet is littered from end to end with articles that have titles like "The 10 best privacy browsers of 2026" but then they go on to list 10 browsers that usually include only one good choice (Brave) along with nine complete lemons ranging from relatively poor privacy options like Safari or Opera, down to full on blatant spyware like Chrome or Edge.

This clueless list from Nord VPN is a fairly typical except that it includes 13 browsers. Note that it doesn't include Floorp or Mullvad, and it's supposed to be a privacy ranking. Google's controlled puppet browser Firefox is rated as #1? - Yeah right...

https://nordvpn.com/blog/best-privacy-browser/

Nord VPN really blew their cred posting that bunch of crap! 

I'm not a geek and I'm not being paid to promote anything. I'm looking for simple and effective solutions for myself and my friends. So what do I recommend? 

Keep in mind that I use Linux myself, and have no idea what works best on Windows these days. But if you are using any post Win 7 version of Windows (especially Win 11) you don't actually have any privacy, so your browser is the least of your problems. Same with Apple and even more so with Google.

As well as sticking to using Linux I recommend these three browsers:
 

BRAVE

 

FLOORP

 

 WATERFOX
 

After trying out the Mullvad browser for a couple of weeks I became frustrated with it's slow loading speeds and intermittent bugs, so I decided to use Waterfox for my #3 browser.

 Waterfox is another Firefox fork. It's probably not as private as Floorp or Mullvad, but it works pretty well. It's very similar to regular old Firefox, but doesn't have all the Google's pet puppet browser privacy concerns. 

On Firefox browsers I think this theme looks quite stylish:  Blue Firefox Theme by Sinine (it looks like the Aston Martin turquoise colour)

 Why on earth do I need to use three browsers? My default browser is Brave, which is a chromium fork. Most of the time that works fine and it's the best browser for practical everyday use that I've found.

But some sites just don't work properly on Chromium, I don't know why, and nobody seems to talk about this, but some sites work far better running on Firefox forks. So I switch back and forth between Floorp and Brave, using Floorp for sites that work better on a Firefox based browser.

I don't use Floorp as my default because there are actually more sites that don't work properly on Firefox browsers, and most of the time I want a Chromium browser as my default. So Floorp is my #2.

I actually prefer many aspects of Firefox browsers, especially their menu system, but unfortunately Firefox have sold out to Google and these days they are just a bunch of woketard puppets who can't be trusted an inch. But some of the Firefox forks are much better.

And finally my #3 browser. I know this sounds obsessive, but I have multiple accounts on some platforms, and for some of those I need a third browser to stay logged in on the third account. 

The other thing is that I'm running the Stay Focused app with certain sites (mainly YouTube & Facebook) restricted to a combined total of 15 mins a day. And on Floorp I'm doing the same thing using an app called LeechBlock.

This works well and curtails my last two social media weaknesses, but it means that if I actually really do want to watch a YouTube video, I need a browser that I can watch it on without it shutting down after 15 mins.
 

AVOID USING MICROSOFT

This is only the second topic on my privacy page and I can already see that page is not going to be a logical and orderly progression of ideas, but rather a bunch of responses and reactions to whatever subjects come up.

 

Like the majority of computer users, I had been using Microsoft Windows forever, and only recently stopped, but I don't want to give the impression that Microsoft is the only one to avoid. Apple is full blown spyware as well, as of course is Google.

  

What seems to have really been the final straw is Microsoft's Windows 11. This appalling pile of full on spyware is so bad it has even aggravated non geeks who in the past would have just gone along with whatever crap Microsoft pushed on them.

 

This was my reply to a friend who yesterday asked what sort of computer she should get to replace a Windows 10 PC that was failing. I've had several friends asking similar questions recently, so I thought I'd better do a blog post to try and cover the basics of the current situation

Microsoft have lost the plot. Personally I stopped at Windows 7, and refused to ever use Win 10, but I ended up still using Win 7 to some extent right up until 2024, although I was having increasing problems with software that would no longer work properly on Win 7.

 

When I shifted to Linux, it took me ages to get used it to after 26 years of Microsoft. I prefer it now, but for the first six months I wished I could just go back to Win 7.

Much as I dislike Win 10, that is nothing to my loathing of Win 11, which is badly designed spyware with built in adverts, mainly designed to sell expensive PC's

Microsoft pulled support for Win 10 in October 2025, and told everyone to get Win 11 which requires an expensive high end computer.

One good thing about that is that there are now thousands of Win 10 PC's going cheap because they won't update to Win 11

They will run fine for at least the next few years, but over time there will be increasing problems with Win 10, like there now is with Win 7.

A good solution is to switch old PC's over to Linux, which runs much better on older PC's because it's better designed software.

The catch is that you will need to learn to use Linux, which for non-geek Windows users is a big change, and to begin with many find difficult. Linux is different to Microsoft.

With Linux literally everything is a choice, while Windows has very little in the way of choices. For example with Windows you can now essentially only choose between switching to Win 11, or continuing to use Win 10.

https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/linux.html

Meanwhile on Linux there are hundreds of different versions (distros) to choose from which initially seems confusing. But it's often less confusing than it first seems.

For an ex Windows user who is not a geek, and just wants a good general purpose operating system, there are two stand out options - Linux Mint or Linux Zorin.

 

 
Both of those are from Ireland which is now a hotbed of computer development 

As with all things Linux, every last detail on these operating systems can be customised, although you can just run them on the default settings as they come if you want, and that will work fine too. They are not like Windows where all the defaults are set to spy on you, and need to be changed.

But essentially I think the best option for Windows 10 users wanting to buy a PC in 2025 is to buy a good used Win 10 PC, and to continue using Win 10 for now, but to be aware that in a few years you will probably have to convert it to Linux, so to start learning to use Linux now and gradually get used to it.

A lot of geeks recommend setting up a dual boot PC, often suggesting a combination of both Win 10 and Linux Mint, but I don't like dual boot set ups myself and prefer to keep Linux & Windows totally separate.

So for the initial learning stage I recommend getting a second computer, any half decent 64 bit laptop with a 500gb solid state drive (SSD) will be fine, and that means you can get used to Linux under no pressure. If anything goes horribly wrong you can just start over again.

 

Hundreds of old laptops and PC's are going cheap on Trade Me - here is a typical example, this is a 17" Dell laptop for $199, which would be ideal for setting up with Linux to learn the ropes.

 

I see no future in Win 11 and think Microsoft's appalling spyware will always be best avoided.

This my own Linux Mint PC - Linux uses different programs so instead of Word for example it runs Writer, but they are very similar. More difficult for me was that instead of Photoshop, Linux runs GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program) and that is more of a difference.

 

DIGITAL PRIVACY PAGE

I've decided to start a new page about digital privacy, because we are now under serious attack and need to find ways to defend ourselves. Here is the first post:

 https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/digital-privacy.html
 

Digital ID's have been a threat on the horizon for years, but recently they have gone from just being a threat to being an actual hard out attack on our freedoms. 

As with the death jabs during the covid hoax, where I said right from the outset, "I will never submit to any death jabs", I will also never submit to any form of digital ID, but clearly that is rapidly going to cause issues, as "they" ramp up the pressure to submit.

Submission is not an option, so we need work arounds. 

 

 

WAYS TO HAVE SOME DIGITAL PRIVACY

 

The subject of digital privacy is huge but we have to start somewhere, even if we have no idea where this is going to lead, or even where is the best place to start.

 

 

1. AVOID USING CELL PHONES 

 

Back in the 90's, cell phones were the hot new fashion, and my friends all got them, so I got one too, but I can honestly say I never liked them, and I refused right from the outset to pay for any sort of monthly account.

 

I've stuck to using pre-pay only for nearly 30 years now, and most years I forget to even do a $10 top up, so my balance gets wiped nearly every year. I very seldom make any calls, and never use data, so I generally spend less than $20 on pre-pay per year.

 

In this day and age, I may well be one of the most clueless people in the world when it comes to cell phones, and for me of all people to start off here talking about phones is completely fruit-loops.

 

But if I had to start with one practical suggestion for achieving some degree of digital privacy, it would be to avoid using cell phones as much as possible.

 

I do have a Samsung phone running Android, not because I think it has any degree of privacy at all, but because I had nearly a full decade of reliability out of my first one, so got another one when it finally met with nasty accident (admittedly I seldom use them). 

 

So I'm not saying to not have a phone at all, because from time to time there is no easy work around, and occasionally a phone is fairly essential. But I am recommending to avoid using phones as much as possible.

 

Eventually I will need to replace my Samsung phone, and then I will look at privacy options like a Brax phone, or some sort of Linux phone if there is a suitable option for me by then, but in the meantime I'll keep on not using my Samsung phone for as long as it still runs.

 

When it comes to phones I'm clueless because I've always done my upmost to avoid using them, but I'm putting them here in first place because I think they are arguably the technology that presents the biggest danger to our privacy and freedom.

 

 

MICROSLOP

Microslop has gone viral! - This entire story is hilarious, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of globalist oppressors, hopefully this will bring an end to Microslop domination this year. Yes, Linux does work much better.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jich4U0oRRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e51Tq7IHRJ0 

COMPUTING WAS A DEEP STATE SET UP

At some point in the past few years, the penny dropped and I realised  Apple, Microsoft, and Google, were all set up by the deep state, they were never real businesses – we can use their tools, but they are all playing us.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both actors working for the CIA. Jobs faked his death and Gates was replaced around 2013. As was “Melinda” who is a very obvious tranny. “Bill” probably is as well – they appear to be inverts.

Linux – for years it has seemed like there was something not right about the development and marketing of Linux – by keeping it hard to use and underground for decades it has never posed a real threat to the deep state operating systems. It slowly improved, but was never really sorted out for mass use. 

 

In 2026 that seems to have finally changed, and some distros, like Mint, are now ready for mass use. I always wondered what was holding everything back? Did the deep state infiltrate Linux development too and deliberately hold it back?

Clearly that is not the case any more, as with Windows 11 Microslop have totally lost the plot, and I would happily bet on the reign of Microslop coming to an end now.

All those Windows software updates were not just for copying our data, one day all of those badly designed programs could “unexpectedly” create irritating and time consuming problems in unison – mass distraction at a key moment, and those Trojans were constantly being set up.

Logging us out of accounts and demanding that we SUBMIT (rather than just logging back in) is obvious mind programming. Any site that does that has revealed it’s true intentions. Pay attention to these little signs!

Another trick is spell checkers. Making spell checkers only work properly in US English has forced us to use US spelling – more programming. But it’s not just our computers that are trying to control us, nearly everything on the internet is a distraction, whether intentional or not, and social media is almost all just there to distract us – that is a major part of how we are being controlled.

Microsoft crossed the line after Win 7 – Microsoft is all spyware and I didn’t ever want to use Win 8 on, not for day to day use and certainly not for anything to do with cryptos. What I use these days is Linux Mint 22.

Mint is a good operating system, and like everyone who escapes the clutches of Microslop I will never go back.

Gimp and Krita are pretty good too. It wasn’t a good situation being locked into old software. Photoshop CS6 (2012) was the last version that you can use without having to rent it off Adobe for a monthly fee, which I would never do, so I was using an 11 year old program that I would never update. Same with Windows 7 (2009).