The proxy does not hide your IP and every website you visit automatically gets put in the whitelist to bypass the proxy, very sneaky.
It seems very very sketchy. They claim to have a free VPN which is always a red flag for me.
According to their privacy policy they have a partnership with Yahoo and therefore have whitelisted them on their built-in ad-blocker.
Honestly, just go with either Brave or Vivaldi of you want a Chromium based browser with a built-in ad-blocker that doesn’t collect data about you.
On top of that, at least the mobile version of this browser hasn’t been update since june of 2022!! It is extremely out of date and should not be used under any circumstances. I don’t know about the desktop version though
Yes, you’d be better off hardening Firefox or using arkenfox or one of the pre-hardened profiles
Just use hardened Firefox/Mullvad/Librewolf, or if you really need Chromium for some reason than use UnGoogled Chromium (or Brave but I don’t really like them).
The proxy works for me when I go to an IP leak site. I only use it for a couple of websites I browse, and I only use it with an always on VPN. Mullvad, Firefox and Brave are all solid as go to privacy browsers.
The app itself hasn’t been updated in so long that I can’t even install it. It’s proprietary, and so we have no way to know if it’s a scam or not.
Sure seems like it looks of it if you ask me.
Try Kiwi Browser+uBlock Origin if you like browsers from Chromium (or Brave)
And it’s not open source according to Wikipedia. Epic (web browser) - Wikipedia
So I would strongly suggest to stay far away from it
As a newbie, hardened betterfox and thinking to do arkenfox, but couldnt find a guide or not sure whether the process is same. What arkenfox would do more than the betterfox and any YT tutorial or guide pls?
Vivaldi is a good browser. It’s only partially closed-source. Only the front-end is. The reason stated is that they want to keep what makes their browser unique to them. Which makes sens given how small Vivaldi is as a brand, it’s a good way to attract people I guess.
To be honest, I don’t mind some software being closed source. Brave Browser has been involved in way more controversies despite being open source.
And it will always be better than Epic Browser for sure 
So u think librefox > Arkenfox? Is it because of difficulty in configurations or because it breaks down the sites? I’m reading mix opinions about both.
As far as I know, yes.
Libre wolf is basically a fork of firefox with preconfigured settings.
Personally I’d use Arkenfox. There’s a user guide on the main readme at GitHub - arkenfox/user.js: Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening . Read all of it, it’s good. If you don’t want to manually edit your file you can use the Interactive Current Release tool. once you’ve got your user.js configured, go to about:profiles in firefox, find your current profile and click the “open file location” button. Then exit firefox and put your user.js in there, overwriting if it asks you to. then start Firefox.
their residential plan is $2/gb is that cheap?
Thanks for detailed and well explained reply, definitely will go with Arkenfox. I’ll check in detail the wiki and interactive guide. There are other files too in repo like prefcleaner and updater, I guess I have to copy those too and execute as well? In Betterfox there were only user.js in which I added few common and optional overrides and thats it. It was my first time I did and very happy with results much snappier and speedy on my macbook even better than safari. Hence will definitely go now with Arkenfox.
One thing more. How would the update procesd work? Would be it be automated like downloading updater and pref and pasting in directory and execute?
I don’t use arkenfox myself, but fairly certain you’d have to add it again manually.