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So, FireFox or Brave? I'm currently using Brave and very happy with it.
If Mozilla had any sense of the future, they would start working on Brave instead of Firefox. Chromium already won on technical reasons. Now someone needs to professionally maintain a privacy fork of it.
The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…
> The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. That's fine by me. It's an up-front indication that I don't want to use that service. In the case of bill pay, I would just change my user agent string.
He also mentioned "others would let me log in but then immediately tell me I had been logged out". If they implement logging in with some tracking cookies, then changing your agent won't help.
So, FireFox or Brave? I'm currently using Brave and very happy with it.
I see one risk for Firefox: if they block all trackers, e.g. Google Analytics, then it would appear to people viewing browser statistics in Google Analytics that no-one is using Firefox, and thus the developers will be told they don't need to test anything on Firefox.
I used to have piwik instead GA 2-5 years ago, according to piwik my website had 23% more visitors than on GA. https://matomo.org/
The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…
> it's not like the average person really has a choice when it comes to paying utility bills. You can always use a dedicated browser for that and only that. Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, IE, Chrome, whatever. At least there's enough browsers around to have each dedicated for certain purpose.
The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…
The more I protect my personal data (hi, GDPR!), the more websites are adding recaptacha to all their pages. Blocking trackers makes Google suspicious, so they're adding more and more recaptcha challenges to let me pass their tests, sometimes 5 to 10 in a row. I'm now working for Google's IA for free just to be able to make purchases online, access some services that I already paid for, or filling in support request…
Don't forget that public transportation can also be self driving and it will be cheaper than riding in a self driving car. So I don't expect public transportation killed, I expect self driving buses.
I see one risk for Firefox: if they block all trackers, e.g. Google Analytics, then it would appear to people viewing browser statistics in Google Analytics that no-one is using Firefox, and thus the developers will be told they don't need to test anything on Firefox.
So, FireFox or Brave? I'm currently using Brave and very happy with it.
Feel free to check it out - https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/dligci/a_goto_thre...
edit: originally referred to blog.mozilla.com