Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
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Google warning you about Mozilla is just peak fucking irony
“Quick! Jump to chrome instead!” - Google spokesperson
Even if this isn’t entirely true, you know Google wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to reduce Firefox market share to scare everyone back to Chrome.
Like chrome does something different?
Yes, chrome is doing something different. It is even worse!
No but where are you going to go. The options are shrinking.
Fennec on mobile. LibreWolf on desktop.
There isn’t to much to reduce. I don’t think Google is scared or afraid by Firefox, like at all.
Vivaldi is where it’s at
Nope. That’s still chromium based and further serves Google’s monopoly on the web platform.
That said I’m open to better alternatives. I’m working hard to protect myself.
Fennec. Ironfox. Mullvad. Tor.
No, it’s really not. Fuck chromium of all flavors.
The DDG app shows no 3rd party tracking attempts made by Firefox at all… So far…
Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app… Duck duck go browser.
You don’t have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.
It’s absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.
That’s not how it works. Apps cannot access the traffic of other apps, let alone decrypt it. There is no way DDG Browser does what you claim it does. They do not even claim that themselves.
EDIT: Unless, of course, it works as a VPN, which apparently it does.
It does in fact do what they claim it does, by functioning as a VPN.
You should probably try the app first before talking out of your ass.
I did have the browser app a few months ago, but didn’t see any such functionality. Of course, by working as a VPN that works.
It’s in the Settings, under “App Tracking Protection”.
I don’t even use the browser part of the app.
How is Mullvad Browser? I know it’s based on Firefox but wouldn’t imagine they would tolerate this.
Fine. I preferred Fennec over the two for quality of life and ease of use balanced with privacy.
Any good browser suggestion??
Vivaldi
That’s chromium based. Having more firefox based browsers helps take away the dominate control Google has on browsers.
TIL. I only use it on mobile, got a good replacement that’s data privacy-oriented?
lol, honestly, just Firefox. I know there’s a lot of hubbub about Mozilla and Firefox with them changing their ToS, but you can disable all sponsored items, and anonymous. And even though they changed their ToS, I don’t think they’ve changed anything. They’ve sold anonymized data for a while. People here don’t seem to like data selling of any kind, but Firefox only collects anonymized data, and it’s a free service.
The only two real options will be Chrome and Chromium based, and Firefox and Firefox based. For Firefox based that isn’t firefox, you’ve got:
- Librewolf
- Mullvad
- Zen
- Floorp
If you google for other browsers, and find one you haven’t heard of, there’s a 99% chance it’s Chromium based.
