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Nice try Google (compuverse.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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[–] ThinlySlicedGlizzy 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Mistake #1, using chrome. Just switch to firefox ~~or brave~~ just use firefox

[–] timkmz 10 points 2 years ago

Firefox is good, and mental outlaw has some good videos of how to initially set it up

[–] funnyjelo 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on my way.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave = chrome

Switch to Firefox period.

[–] warmaster 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's wrong with it? Serious question.

[–] colonial 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chromium is absolutely massive, and it's very hard to be sure all the nasty Google telemetry has been ripped out.

Brave is also run by crypto shills, and they were caught auto-editing URLs to be referral links (!) a while back.

[–] ThinlySlicedGlizzy 5 points 2 years ago

Damn, I've never actually used it but have heard good about it. Just another Firefox win though.

[–] warmaster 4 points 2 years ago

they were caught auto-editing URLs

DAMN. I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

[–] SlappyRedcheeks 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's based on Chromium. Chromium is developed by Google and is the base of Chrome as well.

Chromium is FOSS though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Aside from it being made by Google, it supports a monoculture/monopoly in browsing. We've been down the path before. It isn't good. Even if you are using Brave, you are still supporting the Blink monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA8O97U1Pbc but also the "crypto crap" is very controversial, and settings are not synced properly when using Brave sync? For some reason, when I had to distrohop and I had my settings synced, I never got the crypto crap disabled automatically. And I had to redo a lot of my front page settings, every. single. time. That's what I don't like about it. But my opinion is my own, and I myself use Vivaldi because I'm a customisation freak and Firefox doesn't cut it for me.

[–] warmaster 2 points 2 years ago

I wish Gnome Web had add-on support. It's UI is great and runs beautifully.

[–] W33PINGVIK1NG 1 points 2 years ago

Librewolf, better and more private fork of Firefox.