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Use LibreWolf. Security and privacy enhanced Firefox. Also comes with uBlock origin installed.
https://librewolf.net/
That browser is my main driver, but it's out of the box settings makes it a bad choice for regular users in my opinion. Although knowing the usual crowd on Lemmy a lot of power users lurk around here.
which ootb setting would a regular user realistically need to change? i was actually happy to not have to do anything i'd normally do when installing a new browser
Spoofing the timezone is one that comes to mind. I noticed all the times on websites were off by a significant amount, and that is something that will confuse a regular user. I thought something was wrong until I remembered that LibreWolf tries to hide locale info as much as possible.
The anti-canvas fingerprinting that replaces all canvases (or whatever it is, usually dynamicly drawn stuff) with rainbow square does break a lot of stuff. It used to break even pasting of images to messenger.