this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
21 points (76.9% liked)

Technology

60098 readers
2813 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
21
What browser is better: DuckDuckGo or Vivaldi? (lemmy.autism.place)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

My current browser is DuckDuckGo because I like to use it to protect my privacy on the Web.

I heard word about Vivaldi being a popular browser for Fediverse users but I never tried it.

I’m not sure which one is necessarily better.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Firefox and its derivatives are the only browsers that challenge Google's monopoly on browser engines and prevent them from making unilateral changes to all web browsers based on them, including Vivaldi. DuckDuckGo is a good search engine though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I used Libre Wolf to challenge Mozilla too... somewhat.

[–] lung 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Welllll I mean technically webkit is totally separate from chromes blink fork for the last several years. I.e. browers like safari and gnome's epiphany. That said, safari is mac/iOS only and epiphany sucks ass so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair enough. GNOME Web is the only cross platform non Blink or Gecko browser, and like you say it has flaws compared to those two, such as lack of extension support.

[–] lung 3 points 1 month ago

And somehow breaking even more sites than safari; missing many modern features

[–] ComradeMiao 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Duck gets results from bing. I honestly had to switch to Searx. Can’t stand not finding stuff anymore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SearX is aggregator that get results mostly from Google...

Still my go to but people should know this fact.

[–] ComradeMiao 2 points 1 month ago

I know but it’s more private by a lot. Duck is an aggregator and bad at giving results

[–] Defaced 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why do people always say they switched to SearXNG and then never post the instance they use? Not everyone wants to self host a damn search engine.

[–] ComradeMiao 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because you can searx for the version you like most…

[–] Defaced 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So? Maybe help others find an instance instead of making it sound like some special club that only privileged people can access because they know how to find the right instance.

[–] ComradeMiao 1 points 1 month ago

? Dude what? You can search just like I can. Idk what your needs are.