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https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/ and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/ will likely have documentation that is updated within a day of any relevant news being available

Every branch of engineering and design has technical cultures. In most kinds of engineering, the unwritten traditions of the field are parts of a working practitioner's education as important as (and, as experience grows, often more important than) the official handbooks and textbooks. Senior engineers develop huge bodies of implicit knowledge, which they pass to their juniors by (as Zen Buddhists put it) “a special transmission, outside the scriptures”.

For more varied and detailed recommendations, these might be useful:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop/

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

This seems to be expressing a similar sentiment: https://piefed.social/post/479856

This makes me think about structures that are even more fundamental to the Internet:

• The Domain Name System is inherently hierarchical, and the highest levels are usually controlled by corporations that are much more powerful than I am.
• The process to register a domain name (like piefed.social) requires having a lot of cashflow (it seems that you need to pay many thousands of dollars each year): https://hostadvice.com/blog/domains/how-become-domain-registrar/
• The process to make registrations available with a new top-level domain (like .social or .name) requires having a lot of capital (it seems that you need to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars): https://dev.to/kailyons/tutorial-make-your-own-top-level-domain-name-like-com-org-and-net-jhd

Fundamentally, my ability to send a message between China and Argentina or Fiji and Kyrgyzstan is mediated by a relatively small number of people. For example, the ICANN "key ceremony" is probably not easy for me to participate in: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-key-to-the-internet-and-key-ceremonies-an-explainer-11-07-2023-en

I think it'd be hard to maintain connections to people that are far away from me (I don't know people in very many cities, and I certainly don't know enough people or have enough money to lay my own cables or launch my own satellites or set up my own radio towers to enable me to be independent of ICANN). Similarly, I'm not about to set up my own postal service or courier system.