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I was recently told about Vivaldi, and I’m excited about it. I love the privacy features and the tab organization. Proton VPN is built in, so it looks as if Proton is the best VPN extension for the browser. I imagine that other Proton products work well with it too.

What’s your favorite browser and browser extension(s) right now?

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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Firefox and uBlock Origin. Hard requirement for all platforms but iOS, which doesn't allow alternative browsers. Still, ad blocking has come a long way since I started using iOS, and we have uBlock Lite now, which I think is what Chrome users get on computers? It's system wide and it works well. I have a few other ad blockers I can cycle between (you shouldn't combine them), including Wipr2 and AdGuard. Wipr2 is one of the best Apple-ecosystem ad blockers, but I'm using uBlock because I like the brand and so far it's been fine. Used AdGuard before. If uBlock fails me on iOS, I won't fault it (the blame would lie with iOS) and I'll happily go back to Wipr2. And I use Safari on iOS, though I also have Firefox installed, synced to my work Firefox profile, for reasons.

I have Safari on my Macs (I don't think it can be removed?) and it's kinda dogshit, but I use it from time to time. A couple things work better with Safari. Like if you want to do online ordering, being able to use Apple Pay on the MacBook is awesome. I don't think Firefox can use the fingerprint reader.

[-] umbrellacloud@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why is Safari dogshit? I think its pretty good. Edit: Its a whole lot better than Edge

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, maybe it's not dogshit... it's just completely different from what I expect. Looks different, feels different — and it's not really meant to block ads (which can deliver malware/ransomware, so it's fair to say it's not a security focused browser, even to say it isn't a modern one as it does not address modern threats; excepting, of course, that this malware likely won't run on macOS).

I wouldn't install Edge on a Mac. I wouldn't use Edge on a Windows machine. But yes, as default browsers, I suppose I do like Safari more.

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