Comment your pick!
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@itsfoss Waterfox
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@AAKL @itsfoss @Kdude @wolfkin I get so frustrated with people when talking about privacy. The argument, "I don't care. I don't have anything to hide." completely misses the point. You actually have everything to hide! Privacy is a human right. It wasn't so much an issue when the only way to invade someone's privacy was to actually go to their location and actively, physically invade. But it *is* an issue now, and it's only getting worse.
/rant
@rustbuckett @itsfoss @Kdude @wolfkin You get to a point where silence is the best answer when faced with "the app can take all the date it wants."
You can't protect people from themselves.
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@AAKL @itsfoss @Kdude @wolfkin I get so frustrated with people when talking about privacy. The argument, "I don't care. I don't have anything to hide." completely misses the point. You actually have everything to hide! Privacy is a human right. It wasn't so much an issue when the only way to invade someone's privacy was to actually go to their location and actively, physically invade. But it *is* an issue now, and it's only getting worse.
/rant
@rustbuckett @AAKL @itsfoss @Kdude That's a good point at the end. It used to be more work to invade someone's privacy. And like income, awareness hasn't caught up to modern times.
It's a touch less about apathy, and a touch more about being unable to comprehend how dangerous any given stance is.
I'm certainly not immune to it and I'm just another nobody online.
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@wolfkin @Kdude @rustbuckett @itsfoss You'd be surprised how many people actually don't care if their data is pilfered through their favorite apps, for example. They'd rather continue using their apps. Privacy and security are learned. So raising awareness is important, but more so is what you said about having some guardrails embedded by default. You can be sure a lot of companies will never do that, though, since people are their commodities.
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@itsfoss im enjoying waterfox
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@itsfoss Vivaldi!
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@itsfoss@mastodon.social Vivaldi
Ja, die UI ist proprietär, und nur die Renderingengine Chromium, aber ich war schon großer Freund des alten Opera wegen seiner Anpassbarkeit, und Mausgesten out-of-the-Box. KI-Müll, den fast alle anderen einbauen, brauch ich nicht. Eingebauter Werbeblocker. -
@itsfoss@mastodon.social #Firefox since ever
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@itsfoss librewolf for daily driving, ungoogled-chromium for WebUSB / WebBluetooth.
If you use brave, firefox, or chrome, you might as well give out thumbdrives full of your browsing data to aggregators.
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@itsfoss I like Trivalent (SecureBlue), its a nice simple and secure browser.
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@itsfoss firefox & vivaldi.
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@itsfoss Trivalent on desktop, Vanadium on mobile
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@itsfoss When I was on Windows, I mostly used Brave until I learned it was supporting crypto stuff. When I switched to Linux, I started with Firefox and now use Vivaldi in parallel. I need to do a deeper dive into Librewulf and Waterfox to see which will replace Firefox for me.
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@itsfoss i use @librewolf and love it
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@itsfoss Librewolf, chromium for when webdevs don't know how to webdev.
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on desktop : firefox-esr & brave
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@itsfoss i use firefox
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@itsfoss
Firefox-I like the extensions that allow you to block ads and ai slop -
Lets look at these options.
Vivaldi and Chrome are both closed source, so no one who cares about their digital sovereignty should ever consider them when there are so many other options available.
In a vacuum, Brave is an ok browser, but it is still based on Chromium (Just like Chrome and Vivaldi) which is not good for your privacy/security. Because of Manifest v3, you are limited in what ad blocking you can use/do. Also, Brave's leadership is extremely problematic, their CEO, Brenden Eich, is a genuine bigot.
Of the four options listed, Firefox is the only decent option, but even then it is not the best option for Firefox based browsers. There are so many excellent forks, like Librewolf, Zen, Waterfox, and Mullvad, that will respect your privacy and freedom.
