Technology

Also, that twitter and facebook stuff, uh. Yeah, that’s also pretty much exploded exactly as foretold. The googlez is being evil. The list goes on, and yet all of those companies literally run the world because people continue using them.

IT guy at the company I work for wouldn't let me download Firefox for "security reasons". He said I had to choose between Edge and Chrome and if he had it his way, he wouldn't even let anybody use Chrome.

Sheeple

I just use Pi rewards and Sponsorblock, and it does okay. The Pi.hole only works when they use weird DNS so if it goes through YT, it doesn’t work. I think it uses aliases, but I haven’t studied it thoroughly.

I switched to Waterfox on desktop when Firefox threatened to move to "AI-First". Firefox walked back that shitty decision when they saw the user backlash from it, but I never saw a compelling reason to switch back.

I've been using exclusively since the early 2000s.

On Android, it's about 10x the size of Chrome. I'm guessing that's because Chrome uses the OS internals (chromium) for rendering while Firefox rolls its own (gecko).

Firefox still does manifest v2 so adblockers still have full power.

That, or use a chromium fork that ignores manifest v3 and supports manifest v2.

Don't recommend Mullvad Browser to people who just want a regular daily driver browser unless you want them to freak out and never try anything again.

To anyone uniformed - Mullvad Browser, while technically Firefox based, is actually a fork of Tor, and by default wipes everything on exit, as well as expects users not to tinker with it or install any addons to avoid fingerprinting.

You can pick all of them, and for different purposes. Better to use different personas on different browsers, on different OS's.

If you want to stay with the blink engine, ~~Vivaldi or Brave.~~ you're part of the problem, so don't.

FTFY.

Every Blink-based browser contributes to Google's harmful hegemony over web standards.

Or Iceraven. All extensions, even desktop ones work.

Firefox