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[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Only librewolf and tor browser are free software. The rest are irrelevant.

[-] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago

using icecat just because i love cats so much and the icon is adorable

[-] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

firefox hits the sweet spot between "actually decent browser that has useful features" and "well known enough that people don't switch off when i start talking about it" so i will keep using it and just ignore the pocket stuff

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I personally use librewolf which turns off a the shit i want to turn off in firefox but also disables mozillas tie in products.

[-] goose@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

As someone who has to cross-browser test stuff, I cannot endorse calling a WebKit-based browser “Chrome”

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Do people still pretend DDG is somehow more private than the other search engines? It’s not open source and I don’t think they ever got audited either lol. I guess that’s why I only see people talking about it bringing up uncensored results rather than privacy thử days, and even that’s questionable

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

DDG has censored searches regarding Russia SMO. I personally use their html version (html.duckduckgo.com) since it loads no proprietary code and just gets me search results. Half of which will just be links to forums like stack overflow and reddit.

[-] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

It's just a front end for Bing. Results are taken from there mainly, and they have a partnership with Microsoft. There was an attempt to exclude microsoft ad tracking id from the 'privacy' filters of DDG.

It's nearly impossible for a small company to have a crawler and store that enormous data.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago
[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago
[-] TyMan210@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Opera is owned by some VC vultures and has profited off predatory micro loans in developing nations. It's way more suspicious that Vivaldi(chrome with minor UI improvements)

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

has profited off predatory micro loans in developing nations

Wait what? How's that even possible?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not just possible, it's widespread.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-microfinance-banks-profit-off-developing-world/

(TBH it was never very convincing that these capitalists were going to help poor people by extracting their wealth.)

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Safari isn't Chrome, not that it's necessarily good on its own but it is good in the sense that it challenges Chrome's near browser monopoly

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What's the Code Lyoko thing? Wrong answers please.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Really want to insert a katana in this logo now

[-] un_mask_me@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Xana browser

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago

Fine, I'll bite: what librewolf does better than Firefox?

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

best privacy settings enabled by default, and also no ties to mozilla and pocket

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Lynx users stay winning

I don't understand opera GX. Why.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

I want to take a moment and thank our sponsor opera gx for sponsoring todays video.

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Seriously, what the fuck makes a browser a 'gaming' browser?

[-] pnwml@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Cringy theming and allegedly less system use (but it’s Chromium so kind of a losing battle). God I hate gamer shit.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Did I miss the news on why Vivaldi is "Suspicious"?

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

Vivaldi is not open source yet they claim to be the freest and most customizable browser.

Their article explaining why they aren't libre is full of weak sauce misleading statements about muh branding and also very hypocritical considering they only exist because of open source projects.

I highly recommend against them. If you have to use chromium then use ungoogled chromium. Otherwise just use firefox and its forks.

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago
[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Also proprietary lmao. What sad people would go and make firefox proprietary lol.

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

What sad people would go and make firefox proprietary lol.

I already said weebs

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Right. Right.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago
[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah its a ripoff of GNOME Web smh.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago
[-] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago
[-] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

not very often anymore :(((

[-] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

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