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Since you sound like you know what you're talking about, what browser do you use?

Unfortunately there is no good answer these days. Any browser that really tries to protect your privacy will have problems on some websites. If you really want to maintain your privacy then you have to resign yourself to the fact that occasionally you will go to a website and find things that do not work. If this is fine for you then I recommend IceCat, ungoogled-chromium and TOR. If you want a web browser that actually works on most if not all websites than I think the only real option is FireFox with a number of customization to lock it down. For me IceCat works fine for about 85% of the sites I visit and I have to admit that the effort of switching back and forth between browsers to be a pain and I often just end up browsing with FF.

My issue with the advice on the page linked by OP is not that they recomend running FF with special configs... That is a reasonable position. The problem is the specific suggestion that it is claiming to show a user how to configure DNS over HTTPS while what it is really doing is disabling the feature al together... again this might be excusable but not when the text implies the opposite. And even then the advice is suspect/debatable. I personally run FF in DNS over TLS because I think two companies having half the info is better than one company having all the info.

For real anonymity, not just privacy, TOR through a VPN is the only option.

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For me IceCat works fine for about 85% of the sites I visit and I have to admit that the effort of switching back and forth between browsers to be a pain and I often just end up browsing with FF.

Same for me with Tor. The captcha problem doesn't seem like it will get fixed anytime soon either.

I use Tor alone since a few articles from argues against VPNs with Tor. Seems it could work if done right but since many setup incorrectly it causes problems.

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I use Tor alone since a few articles from this guy argues against VPNs with Tor. Seems it could work if done right but since many setup incorrectly it causes problems.

Yeah, nothing is perfect. It really comes down to who you are hiding from and for what reason.