3 ms·

Seeing its provenance, I have never considered Chrome or Chromium an option for daily use. The same way I have never been tempted to create a Gmail - or indeed

Seeing its provenance, I have never considered Chrome or Chromium an option for daily use. The same way I have never been tempted to create a Gmail - or indeed any kind of Google - account. Still mystified why such huge numbers of people - also among the well informed - find it a worthwhile trade handing over the generality of their life to this monolith in return for some perceived marginal gains in speed og useability or whatever. No, I don't use the search either, and I block their Analytics snooper, whichever guise it appears in (font, tagmanager, gstatic etc. etc.). It's eminently doable. So call me a luddite.

pastununtrium 8y ago
Interesting. Do you mind sharing your browser setup (Firefox?) and extensions setup , workflow?
- interfixus 8y ago
  My setup and workflow are unremarkable and will bore you to tears. Linux & Firefox on all my desktops. Firefox uMatrix'ed to within an inch of its life, and with one of those extensions that kill all cookies from a given tab as soon as you close it.. Every now and again I have to temporarily allow one access or another - some sites break if not allowed use of Google TagManager, for example. I keep a seperate profile for a few known sites which I occasionally must use, and which absolutely refuse to function without live access to all the evil empires of the world. My searches go through DuckDuckGo, with a detour to Startpage whenever things don't work out. Oh, and Youtube videos. I never stream. I go there, often via proxy, and I download the thing before watching. For mail, I run all the boring stuff via FastMail, and some personal correspondance through my own server, running on an old discarded thin client with a usb stick for storage. It's a good thing I don't really like the Go language, or I should find myself in a dilemma.
  - pastununtrium 8y ago
    No, it wasn’t that boring. Highlights were the email server running on a thin client with usb stick for storage LOL. Proxyign YouTube manually rather than vpn seems a little hasslesome though. Interesting setup, thanks!

pastununtrium 8y ago

Interesting. Do you mind sharing your browser setup (Firefox?) and extensions setup , workflow?

interfixus 8y ago
My setup and workflow are unremarkable and will bore you to tears. Linux & Firefox on all my desktops. Firefox uMatrix'ed to within an inch of its life, and with one of those extensions that kill all cookies from a given tab as soon as you close it.. Every now and again I have to temporarily allow one access or another - some sites break if not allowed use of Google TagManager, for example. I keep a seperate profile for a few known sites which I occasionally must use, and which absolutely refuse to function without live access to all the evil empires of the world. My searches go through DuckDuckGo, with a detour to Startpage whenever things don't work out. Oh, and Youtube videos. I never stream. I go there, often via proxy, and I download the thing before watching. For mail, I run all the boring stuff via FastMail, and some personal correspondance through my own server, running on an old discarded thin client with a usb stick for storage. It's a good thing I don't really like the Go language, or I should find myself in a dilemma.
- pastununtrium 8y ago
  No, it wasn’t that boring. Highlights were the email server running on a thin client with usb stick for storage LOL. Proxyign YouTube manually rather than vpn seems a little hasslesome though. Interesting setup, thanks!