macOS browser recommendations

The argument against additional filter lists (as endorsed by Privacy Guides) conflates theoretical fingerprinting risk with concrete tracking harm. Filter-list-based fingerprinting attacks are operationally constrained in two critical ways. They require (1) an adversary who actively deploys crafted probe rules, and (2) control of, or access to, first-party websites the target actually visits. This is a motivated, targeted threat. That is categorically different from the passive, ubiquitous third-party data exfiltration that additional filter lists directly and continuously prevent. While this tradeoff is actively debated in the literature , the balance of argument favours tracking harm as the primary risk for most users. Therefore, you are right to be sceptical of PG’s recommendation. The appropriate framing should be threat modelling rather than a universal recommendation against additional lists. As for OP, browser choice on Android is heavily dependent on your OS or ROM. Without knowing your OS, ROM, or threat model, any specific recommendation is difficult to make.