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Lots of things I like about the site. For one, I value that privacy has been highlighted. On a slight negative... they feature Firefox but it requires so much
by O1111OOO 4y ago
Lots of things I like about the site. For one, I value that privacy has been highlighted.
On a slight negative... they feature Firefox but it requires so much work to tweak. I feel this is a reflex recommendation though I do, very much, like that FF allows itself to be tweaked.
On the Desktop... I much prefer LibreWolf - which I didn't see listed. It is what Firefox should be.
On mobile, I prefer DuckDuckGo's Android browser (also not listed). Firefox mobile comes bundled with 3 tracking companies - each collecting a mountain of information! Why must you always shoot yourself in the foot, Mozilla? It's never ending.
DDG is not only open source (https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android) but it also does <strike>not have a single tracker</strike> (thanks for this, byyll). If that wasn't enough, it comes with a module called App Tracking Protection. It's brilliant. It blocks trackers from other apps. I cannot recommend this enough. The sheer amount of information collected from apps on your phone...
I have had apps at 30 attempts in the first few seconds and reach 1,000 tracking attempts within 1/2 an hour. Every single item - from contacts to specific location - is constantly being polled, collected and transmitted by multiple companies.
Every app seems to be running spyware from various multiple companies - even my banking app. DDG's Android Browser helps stop this.
Wall of text, time to stop. Nice site, love that it's not afraid to be technical because, unfortunately, it's necessary at times.
- byyll 4y ago> it does not have a single tracker [...] it blocks trackers from other apps Except when it's Microsoft: https://nitter.fly.dev/yegg/status/1528838579455250434 https://nitter.fly.dev/yegg/status/1528838579455250434
- gofoss 4y agoHi, thanks for the feedback :) Librewolf is great, I use it everyday. It's mentionned in the "Firefox vs Chrome" drop-down menu, alongside Tor, Ungoogled Chromium & others. We also mention Mull, Fennec & Bromite for Android. Preferred over DDG, which had some fallouts lately. Regarding FF – Yes, much tweaking is required to get things right. Yes, Mozilla made some questionable technical choices in the past. Yes, Mozilla Corporation earns most of its revenues from Google. Also yes: in a browser landscape dominated by Google, Firefox currently seems to be the only independent contender worth mentioning.