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The original was posted on /r/browsers by /u/-Legitimate-Jelly- on 2023-08-07 02:26:17.
I used Google Chrome most my life until I fell in love with Opera GX for 2 years and I loved it. The features and sidebar just so god damn good and marketing 10/10 and lots of other crap. But learnt about the privacy risks and deepdriving into this subreddit so for over a year I've tried out all sorts of browsers.
Firefox, Librewolf, Floorp, Pulse, Brave, Vivaldi, Sidekick, Ungoogled Chromium, Edge, Tempest, Ulaa, Ferdium, Pale Moon, Tor, Otter, Opera, Opera GX etc.
I've tried all this and realise that each have great issues like: buggy experiences, shitty UI, insane RAM usage, has nothing to offer so why even exist, late updates, slow on google products like YouTube, incompatibility with certain sites, shitty popup video I use 24/7, insane bloat, lack of workspaces I use always and no good google extension substitute etc etc.
There are literally so many other things I value yet hold privacy over it to such a great extent out of self inflicted fear mongering to ignore my immediate life meanwhile literally everyone else is fine using Google Chrome. Ik all the answers to "Why should I care about privacy?" but really why? It doesn't affect my immediate life...my small bubble and caring so much about this dumb shit open source shit just worsens my experience and a waste of time I mean please what is Opera China gonna find out what porn I watch and send it to my parents? Are they going to use this info against the US like tiktok for war? Dumb us down? And I should care because this affects me when I close my screen offline why?
I'm over it and it's a waste of time. If I log in to my bank then I'd care and use librewolf sure but otherwise the entire user experience is lessened the more you care about privacy lets be real and tried using Brave which is the best for compromising with privacy and usability but still not all I truly want because privacy care is holding me back and I say fuck it. I don't care anymore.
I'm trying out Sidekick again since I liked it, test out edge again since it's been ages but god damn it's overwhelming with crap bloat features I may say "idc fuck that shit" and go straight back to Opera GX if I don't like the two others. I really like the browser and it has almost everything I value other than privacy but I don't care I'll take what I get at face value. It's a losing battle and not even that greatly impactful anyway. I've just installed fear into myself for the dumbest of reasons I just don't care anymore it's a waste of time and effort since nothing is perfect and imma be using this shit everyday might as well use the browser I like the most.
Going to watch YouTube while reading yaoi manga's now on Opera GX and if any Chinese spies want to read with me then join in the more the merrier, see ya ๐