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"It has to be Chromium"

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨0Xero0@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Matharl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock : LibreWolf.

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    • Lukecis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fr, people need to stop the lies that firefox itself is a privacy respecting browser, which it isnt- not since it was bought out years back.

      LibreWolf and Mullvad are great examples of Firefox Forks that are ACTUALLY privacy focused browsers.

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      • Woedenaz@lemmy.fmhy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bought out? Firefox was never bought out by anyone. What are you talking about?

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    • myself@lemmy.sudoer.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      LibreWolf is so clean and minimal, whenever I go back to Firefox it feels bloated in comparison.

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  • Riyria@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, people hate Firefox? Why??

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    • IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Chrome defaultism, and so websites are usually made for Chrome, often disregarding testing on Firefox completely, and so they work a bit worse here and there

      Also no Google connectivity

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      • edgarallenpwn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What sites have issues with Firefox? I’ve been using firefox exclusively since 06 besides trying chrome for 2009-2010 and never had any issues. Not saying they don’t exist but it seems like a very small amount that won’t function at all.

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      • Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also no Google connectivity

        I wish people would see this as a feature, not a drawback.

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    • schmensch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t hate it, I really want to like it. It’s just that I have a rather niche issue that really bugs me and forces me to chromium (or derivatives).

      FIDO2 / YubiKey support on Chromium is far superior compared to FF.

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      • dumbyoyo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You mentioned chromium and not chrome, so I'm assuming it works well in Brave?

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  • GenBlob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use firefox for obvious privacy reasons but also because I can customize the UI. Chromium’s interface is oversized, ugly, and locked down while on firefox I can change any aspect of it using my own CSS.

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    • onparole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also addons against ads which Google obviously wouldn’t allow on their crap browser.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I initially read your comment as “I use firefox for obvious piracy reasons” and thought “yeah, that’s fair”.

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  • tram1@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chromium could be spying on you, as it communicates with google servers. You should use ungoogled-chromium, and hope they did a good job…

    spoiler

    or just use Firefox

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    • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Using ungoogled-chromium still contributes to Google’s browser engine monoculture.

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  • Didz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vivaldi is nice.

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    • SmoothSurfer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe you should check out the privacy policy and try to better understand foss philosophy

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      • void_wanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe enlighten us?

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  • only0218@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see furryfox, I vote up.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lynx

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    • Stan@lemmywinks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      wget

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      • schmensch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Carrier Pigeons

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      • iusearchbtw@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I compiled wget from source

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  • Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think a lot of people turned away from Firefox after that Mr Robot promotional ‘stunt’ they pulled.

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    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m out of the loop on this one. What happened in Mr. Robot?

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      • 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wondering this as well.

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    • Stan@lemmywinks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Didn’t they have some anti-gay-marriage CEO for a while?

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  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But it doesn’t though, not really. There are quite a few things which are still sent back as telemetry. One hell of alot better than chrome but it’s still watching you. It’s still not respecting your privacy.

    There are some privacy respecting browser out there but they’re quite inconvenient to use. I haven’t found a real reasonable middle ground personally, but altering librewolf or the mulvad browser to keep you signed in has been nice enough for me

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    • bier@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you have any info on what data Firefox sends home? Have been using Firefox forever.

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      • gravitywell@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        about:telemetry should tell you if its enabled or not and has links that go into more detail about whats collected and their policies.

        This page explains a bit more about it: howtogeek.com/…/how-to-see-and-disable-the-teleme…

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  • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps I’m missing something but I’ve been a Firefox user for years- at work and home. I have yet to find a website that misbehaves or under-performs. Mayyybe a few sites here and there a fractions of a second slower or have slightly less acceleration or something that I’m just not noticing?

    Without Firefox and its ??forks?? like LibreWolf, the internet would be a total Chromium monopoly at this point, wouldn’t it? That would be bad…

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    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m a die-hard Firefox user (in part because I’m a web developer and prefer the dev tools). But I have seen a couple of sites that only work with Chromium-based browsers. Both are owned by Microsoft, though, so I assume they’re breaking things on purpose to push Edge or something. There’s no significant features Firefox is missing. (Safari is the problem child for web developers now. They tend to be last to support new CSS/JS features.)

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  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ungoogled Chromium exists but it just feels 1/10 of what Firefox is capable of doing.

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  • Pawan123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Firefox’s supremacy 😆

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  • void_wanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can someone make a comment on if and how chromium development changed since Edge uses it? I often hear that Google dictates chormium dev, but what about MS? Are they doing dev work, too?

    But sadly, in privacy matters their interests are likely aligned, so that we can expect to be it further hollowed.

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    • b3nsn0w@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they’re 100% doing dev work at ms, afaik their contributions are public because chromium is an open source project. and i think it would be very beneficial for larger amounts of people to use edge (only if they’re dead set on not using firefox though) because having two different companies compete on that is still better than just having google have a monopoly.

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    • mk7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Edge team has made a lot of major contributions to Chromium over the past few years.

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  • Designate6361@lemmy.letthewookiee.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brave is on of the few Chrome based browsers that security types will back. but still has its own issues.

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    • outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      C r y p t o

      Tbh seems good enough for me, when I turn that stuff off

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      • variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can you opt out of it changing your links to their affiliates

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  • Norithos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LibreWolf

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    • anon@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, because original Firefox is not it.

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  • Christos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brave

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  • InternetTubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Iceweasel: Firefox!? Them’s fighting words!

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  • Tag365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s Internet Explorer - Google edition.

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  • topnomi@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I've tried a bunch of time but I feel going back to Chrome.

    I'm currently trying or Oprah for the first time.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For privacy on iOS what is really the best one?

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    • rndm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It doesn’t really matter, Apple doesn’t allow any third party web-engines, so no matter which browser you are using, you basically get the same privacy standards as safari

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      • SmoothSurfer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Even though Apple is not sharing personal data with third parties, relatively recently they started to use personal data in order to use them on advertisement of their own services. And considering the entire Apple ecosystem(if you are using all devices of course) it is a bit concerning they are using all of those data.

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      • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Shocked Pikachu face

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    • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Safari with Adguard adblocker.

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  • Im28xwa@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was looking for the best all-rounder for Android and Windows and after watching some videos and checking privacytests.org I landed on Brave

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  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does it run better than it did fifteen years ago? Because that was the reason I switched to Chrome.

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    • jherazob@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Significantly

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  • donnnnnnb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody has mentioned SeaMonkey.

    Basically Firefox but looks and feels like classic Netscape/Mozilla.

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    • lanolinoil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because that’s what Firefox was missing

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  • TheInsane42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now I’m getting curious about the vivaldi browser. It’s chromium based (apart from firefox, what isn’t) but seems pretty security/privacy aware.

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    • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it’s proprietary and thus not viable for any privacy conscious person. (assuming they know to trust as few third parties as possible)

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    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not fully open source, but it’s so good, it’s full of features, incredibly customisable, it really is a power user browser.

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      • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It overheats my MacBook and runs like shit on my windows desktop. and frankly too many features for me that I would never use.

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  • Candybar121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is A+

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  • ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there a firefox based browser like brave? And preferably without cryptobro bullshit?

    I heard mullvad is looking promising but no android app (yet?)

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    • lightsecond@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do you mean “like brave”?

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brave + privacyBadger is about the best you can do. If you turn all the features on it anonymizes your plugins and screen res returns enough that you can’t be identified by a unique configuration.

    It supports TOR for private browsing natively.

    I don’t trust them more than Mozilla, but the do a better job at keeping my browsing habits out out the hands of my ISP and the sites I visit.

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    • 0Xero0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Firefox + UBO + Badger + Malwarebytes?

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      • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        give er a shot, test is over here.

        coveryourtracks.eff.org

        Both block ads and trackers, but Firefox always leaves me with a unique fingerprint.

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  • spaceribs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No oldies remember Camino? It was such a great browser!

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_(web_browser)

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  • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It unironically has to be Chromium

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    • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But like why?

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      • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        PWAs, UI, general performance (I don’t care "it’s not the fault of the browser), dislike of Mozilla

        And a small fuck you to other bots here.

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  • CoffeeTails@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brave? 😅

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