I’m currently using LibreWolf (a Firefox fork) as my primary browser, with uBlock Origin set to block scripts by default on all but a few sites. When i need to use a site that’s not one of these trusted ones and refuses to work without JS (for example, forums.linuxmint.com), is it better for my privacy to temporarily allow JS or to open the site in a different browser like FF or Vivaldi?

Does switching browsers actually make it harder to track me, especially ones that don’t have full modern CSS and JS support like Dillo, Links2, Alhena, and NetSurf?

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    Treating Google and Meta as apolitical in contrast to the scaaaary foreign entities - when they are currently aiding genocide and more-spectacular-than-usual immigration cruelties - is a particularly funny example of how liberal rhetoric rapidly ages out of relevance to its own premises. If you ever read about the Cold War and wonder why people were so easily duped by McCarthyism, just examine your own thought processes. Little changed.

    On a more practical note, most people are concerned with personal safety, not ideology, so entities that will block you & have you arrested for political reasons e.g. Microsoft, Meta, and Google are far from ideal for Americans. If your beliefs are still outside that expansive group of reasons just sit tight you’ll probably care in time. Russians should avoid Russian services. You get the idea