What browsers yall using? (1 Viewer)

[Heathen Saint]

I have traditionally been a chrome guy.

However this year with the addition of copilot ai giving me more contextual answers aa I search and the “Workspaces” feature, Microsoft Edge has won me over. I also like the “drop” feature where I can be looking at something on my phone and seamlessly send it or open it up on my desktop. I use edge for work and Firefox for casual browsing.

What about you?

 

[fred8615]

Vivaldi. Customizable out the wazoo; built-in mail and feed reader, ad and tracker blocking (though I still use Adguard), and tab tiling. And Vivaldi had web panels years before Edge had it's sidebar.

But, if Vivaldi were to ever go belly up, I would switch to Edge.

 

[Zaphod]

Firefox

 

[Zztop]

I detest the near-monolopy that google has created. Also they're about to kill off third-party cookies, which at first might seem great... except the new system will replace them with a new solution under their control

Google is done with cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s done tracking you

A third-party cookie ban won’t hurt the search giant’s healthy first-party data ad business.

www.vox.com

As Recode pointed out last year, Google will still collect your first-party data — that is, what you do when you’re using its products, like YouTube and Search — and it will target ads to you based on it. That first-party data becomes even more valuable to advertisers as third-party data sources dry up.

(Then there is this recent settlement)

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222268415/google-settles-5-billion-privacy-lawsuit

So I say no to all the chrome-based browsers (which most of them are based off these days - brave, vivaldi, edge etc) The only two main exceptions these days are firefox and apple's safari browser.

TLDR; I've been using firefox since before it was called firefox (essentially the spiritual successor to Netscape Navigator)

 

[fred8615]

I detest the near-monolopy that google has created. Also they're about to kill off third-party cookies, which at first might seem great... except the new system will replace them with a new solution under their control

As Recode pointed out last year, Google will still collect your first-party data — that is, what you do when you’re using its products, like YouTube and Search — and it will target ads to you based on it. That first-party data becomes even more valuable to advertisers as third-party data sources dry up.

So I say no to all the chrome-based browsers (which most of them are based off these days - brave, vivaldi, edge etc) The only two main exceptions these days are firefox and apple's safari browser.

TLDR; I've been using firefox since before it was called firefox (essentially the spiritual successor to Netscape Navigator)

Vivaldi blocks this, and the other data tracking Chrome does. And you are aware that Firefox gets a lot of its funding from Google, right?

 

[MikeyF]

Firefox

I've been using it since it was Phoenix...

I also use:

DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

start.duckduckgo.com

as my start page.

 

[Zztop]

Vivaldi blocks this, and the other data tracking Chrome does. And you are aware that Firefox gets a lot of its funding from Google, right?

Firefox has a business relationship, to make google search the default search engine. Nothing else. The default browsing engine can be easily changed in a couple seconds.

Firefox

I've been using it since it was Phoenix...

I also use:

DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

start.duckduckgo.com

as my start page.

This ^

 

[Zztop]

Also, I came across an alternative browser to Apple's Safari.

Orion Browser by Kagi

kagi.com

has a built-in ad block, no telemetry, and support for firefox and chrome extensions/plug-ins