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Here are your choices: Adtech company's browser the adtech reskin the browser company almost wholly funded by the adtech company OR Vendor and device restri
by automatic6131 3y ago
Here are your choices:
Adtech company's browser
the adtech reskin
the browser company almost wholly funded by the adtech company
OR
Vendor and device restricted browser that won't work if you, say, wish to use Windows or Linux (incl android).
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd if I wouldn’t use a browser by an adTech company, why would I use a phone with an operating system built by the same adTech company?
- smoldesu 3y agoPerhaps because you forgot both are Open Source with privacy-respecting forks?
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd then you give up every app that uses Google Play Services.
- smoldesu 3y agohttps://youtu.be/bi7V_RoUW3k https://youtu.be/bi7V_RoUW3k
- scarface_74 3y agoIf you’re using Google Play Services you’re still being tracked and have closed source Google on your phone
- isykt 3y agoI don’t wish to use Windows or Linux or Android, so it looks like I’m set.
- 8zah6q7 3y agoiOS/Mac? Apple sells advertising too. They're just as evil if not more than any other megacorp.
- scarface_74 3y agoDo they track me across websites? I think the AppStore is a shit show too with or without Apple ads.
- ahahahahah 3y agoYes. They absolutely track you across websites.
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd I’m sure you have evidence of that?
- isykt 3y ago[dead]
- userbinator 3y agoOr one of the other small independents that won't work with sites that have drunk the Goog-Aid, but will be perfectly fine and even preferable on the rest of the document web, and even some of the interactive ones (old-school forums and the like.)
- justinclift 3y agoIf you're on macOS, the Kagi people have their own "Orion" browser now too: https://browser.kagi.com https://browser.kagi.com