Original post: https://hexbear.net/post/2511019
Only librewolf and tor browser are free software. The rest are irrelevant.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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using icecat just because i love cats so much and the icon is adorable
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
I personally use librewolf which turns off a the shit i want to turn off in firefox but also disables mozillas tie in products.
As someone who has to cross-browser test stuff, I cannot endorse calling a WebKit-based browser “Chrome”
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
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.
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.
Tor is secret Firefox
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...
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
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)
has profited off predatory micro loans in developing nations
Wait what? How's that even possible?
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.)
What's the Code Lyoko thing? Wrong answers please.
Really want to insert a katana in this logo now
Xana browser
Fine, I'll bite: what librewolf does better than Firefox?
best privacy settings enabled by default, and also no ties to mozilla and pocket
Lynx users stay winning
I don't understand opera GX. Why.
I want to take a moment and thank our sponsor opera gx for sponsoring todays video.
Seriously, what the fuck makes a browser a 'gaming' browser?
Cringy theming and allegedly less system use (but it’s Chromium so kind of a losing battle). God I hate gamer shit.
Did I miss the news on why Vivaldi is "Suspicious"?
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.
Floorp is weeb Firefox
Also proprietary lmao. What sad people would go and make firefox proprietary lol.
What sad people would go and make firefox proprietary lol.
I already said weebs
Right. Right.
but safari isnt chrome...
Yeah its a ripoff of GNOME Web smh.
where is Ladybird?
in parks and gardens
not very often anymore :(((
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