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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MelancholikhPatata@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I've been using Opera for a few years now and I've been enjoying its features, UI and everything. However, I (surprisingly to me) haven't noticed many people mentioning it. Also, when I was on Reddit and mentioned that I use it I got downvoted which left me somewhat confused haha.

So I'm wondering if there's anything wrong with it and/or if I should give another browser a go (I noticed Firefox is mentioned a lot on here)

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[-] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Just curious, what browser do you use?

[-] shrugal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I switched from Chrome to Firefox about a year ago, because it's just better for personal privacy and the freedom of the web as a whole. Brave would be my second choice, but FF lets you easily self-host a sync server for all your browsing data.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Brave is littered with crypto and replaces other ad networks with their own (which does tracking basically exclusively for them).

Steer clear, it’s a trap.

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can disable Brave ads and tracking pretty easy. A lot of the crypto stuff can be disabled too.

[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tor browser for mostly anonymous browsing, Mullvad browser as default non-Tor browser (it's basically an open source Firefox fork made by Mullvad and the Tor team), but I also still have a regular Firefox configured with Arkenfox' user.js and some important extensions, as well as a Chromium with zero protections except uBlock Origin. I switch between those browsers depending on use case. Each browser has a different theme to make them easily distinguishable from each other, the "insecure" browsers which I only use for rare exceptions (websites misbehaving in any other browser) have a red-like color. All browsers are being run sandboxed.

On mobile: Tor browser, Bromite and Vanadium.

this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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