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[–] psycrow 105 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Fun fact, did you know that google deliberately makes their products run worse on browsers like Firefox so users will think the browsers are slow? Please support Firefox, it's the only real browser not based on Googles technology (like Brave is), and it's actively fighting Google's monopoly on web browsing.

[–] Kirkwall 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Firefox is based. Glad I switched over recently.

[–] W33PINGVIK1NG 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox, and is absolutely better for privacy and security; way more based than Firefox, you should check it out m8 :)

[–] tsukii 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Using LibreWolf right now! The experience is smooth most of the time, although you do need to switch to Firefox when you need to view DRM-controlled content (like when participating an online course, for example).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah DRM content is why I'm on Firefox instead of Librewolf. I may look into hardening FF in the near future

[–] joinmyframily0118999 17 points 2 years ago

"The job isn't done, until Lotus won't run" - attributed to Bill Gates/Microsoft

[–] CentreMetre 6 points 2 years ago

Remember when the FTC actually did- well anything. I 'member (actually i don't cos i wasn't alive when they did)

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

I know it's easy to claim that, but is there any actual proof of that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

User experience is actually better if you're not using chrome since you won't be subject to Google's a/b tests

[–] progettarsi -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

duckduckgo browser is also not chromium

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry to disappoint you but it does. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo if you check out the Browser section, it literally says DDG browser is using Blink, which is the Chromium engine.

[–] progettarsi 1 points 2 years ago

sorry, i was refering to the desktop browser, that if I am correct is just based on WebKit and it's build from scratch. also didn't know that the mobile ones were using chromium thanks for the information :3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

duckduckgo browser is just a webview2 wrapper, which is a edge wrapper, which is just a chromium wrapper, which is........