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submitted 1 year ago by Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me

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[-] Cowabunghole@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Question: what do people have against chromium? I understand not liking Chrome specifically, but what's the issue with non-Google chromium? I use Brave on my PC and phone, and Edge for work.

As for Firefox, I love and appreciate what they are doing and what they stand for. I tried using it and had one bad experience, where I was doing some web dev and encountered a bug that drove me crazy trying to fix, only to find it was a bug with FF itself. So I switched to Brave for development, and then I liked it and haven't switched back. So, not to say that one little bug "ruined" FF for me, I just haven't had any reason to stop using Brave.

[-] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Several things:

  • Owned by for profit company
  • Browser engine is dominant
  • Said company is in the ad business, so they don't have the best incentives for privacy
  • Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
  • Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users

Meanwhile, I'm glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace "invented Comic Sans" with "uses Chrome") https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

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