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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 93 points 2 years ago

Honestly you really should be using Firefox.

[-] Samueru@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Firefox lacks a ton of features and its default settings have terrible fingerprinting protection to start.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago

Then customize it. Honestly they aren't all that bad and by using Firefox you ate not supporting google.

[-] Samueru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have done that, and it a horrible, it takes more work to make a useChrone.css on firefox than to setup a wm on linux lol

You can also use any of the forks of chromium and not support google, what you said is like telling people not use grapheneos because it is a fork of android.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If we had a working alternative to Android as a whole, we would surely use it. But Linux on mobile works only in few devices and not flawlessly at all. But for the Chromium monopoly we have an actual alternative that works.

[-] Samueru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Linux on phones already work, just that phonecalls might not work sometimes, but if you are into privacy you might as well not use that anyway lol.

So yeah, time to drop graphene and start using linux on phones, if you managed to get firefox to work you can use linux phones, sure some websites might not work on firefox (that is not fault of firefox, same way not all apps might work on linux) and you may need to do some coding to get some things to your liking (using custom.css files is like settings up a bunch of configs and scripts on linux) and you might need to add a bunch extensions to get basic features (like adding extensions to gnome lol).

[-] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The real answer

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Firefox's resist fingerprinting breaks sites too.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

It doesn't really break things for me personally. However if it does break something just turn it off.

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I've been having a pretty good experience with Mullvad, however I don't hear many people talking about it. I wonder why is that, IIRC it's being developed with Tor Foundation, and is basically a Tor browser for clear web, and that sounds perfect. So far, I didn't run into any issues, so is there a catch, or are they just not well enough known yet? Or, maybe people are turned away by their optional VPN?

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