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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tried Chrome once and go back to Firefox... There is still some website that require Edge or Chrome. Which one is worst in terms privacy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Firefox' tabs are so darn bad tho. It really bothers me I can't just drag them around

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tried Chrome once and go back to Firefox... There is still some website that requires Edge or Chrome. Which one is worst in terms privacy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

you're lying to yourself if you think mozzarella foxfire does'nt collect data. They may use it in a different way, but they still collect data. You have to jump through a bunch of config to disable their telemetry, which most users won't do.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I recommend Chromium Ungoogled if you can't let go of the Chromium ecosystem for some reason. It's an open source fork of Chromium and puts pretty much all the power in the users' hands, so much so that to get certain features to even work you have to configure it. It is also fully compatible with the Chrome app store, if you want it to be.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

But I’m using iOS. Can I still do something to atleast increase my privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've played around with a few browsers, and while Firefox is a better alternative to chrome, I'd more recommend a privacy hardened fork of firefox such as LibreWolf or GNU IceCat. I've also used mullvad browser which is kinda neat.

Some people are too comfortable using chrome for it's extension library however, so if a mozilla-based browser doesn't fulfill the extensions requirement, Brave browser is a good choice. I haven't tried de-googled chromium, but I imagine it's food for the reasons it says on the tin.

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