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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:

reinstall the browser without admin rights

Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven’t used Windows in well over a decade, so I don’t think that particular one would be an issue for me.

The rest can be grouped as:

My options for chromium browsers are:

Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.

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