Choose your browser carefully (2021)
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Choose your browser carefully (2021)
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Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#2I have mixed feelings on this.
While I agree with the author on many points, this feels like letting perfect be the enemy of better.
Does Firefox have problems? Of course, 100%. Is it much much better than Chrome? Yes.
Let's focus first on the fights that can be won. It's hard enough to get people to switch off of Chrome to Firefox, lets not try to push them to something they've mever even heard of.
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#3What about Safari? Yes it's closed, and right now has a pretty severe bug related to IndexedDB and sandboxing. Webdevs (or is it a concerted effort in disguise?) complain about Safari not being the most aggressive in terms of JS API support, but this is a good thing in terms of privacy isn't it? The deal being that Apple, unlike others, has no stake in "telemetry" aka privacy invasion.
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#4I have mixed feelings on this. While I agree with the author on many points, this feels like letting perfect be the enemy of better. Does Firefox have problems? Of course, 100%. Is it much much better than Chrome? Yes. Let's focus first on the fights that can be won. It's hard enough to get people to switch off of Chrome to Firefox, lets not try to push them to something they've mever even heard of.
I don't like Google, but Chrome is a better browser - especially if you're frontend dev. I'd love for Firefox to be better but it's way slower and its developer console is no match for Chrome's.
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#5For an article supposedly about protecting your privacy, it's very weird to see the author's opposition to DoH. The only evidence given are the "Criticism" section of the wiki article on DoH (which no longer exists, apparently), some blog post and a Reddit comment with few convincing arguments (no, pointing fingers at SNI and the like isn't gonna cut it).
DoH has issues but is overall a net positive and step in the right direction, and you have the freedom to set the DoH server to whichever you think is less evil, but to go as far as to block it is just strange.
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#6> People are being mislead by the empty promises of privacy. Brave not only also "phones home" but as soon as you fire up the browser it starts contacting Amazon.
And suddenly forgot about the proofs.
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#7What about Safari? Yes it's closed, and right now has a pretty severe bug related to IndexedDB and sandboxing. Webdevs (or is it a concerted effort in disguise?) complain about Safari not being the most aggressive in terms of JS API support, but this is a good thing in terms of privacy isn't it? The deal being that Apple, unlike others, has no stake in "telemetry" aka privacy invasion.
Safari doesn't even meet the most basic requirement for a web browser: Support for uBlock Origin. If Apple cared about privacy, they would support uBO.
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#8What about Safari? Yes it's closed, and right now has a pretty severe bug related to IndexedDB and sandboxing. Webdevs (or is it a concerted effort in disguise?) complain about Safari not being the most aggressive in terms of JS API support, but this is a good thing in terms of privacy isn't it? The deal being that Apple, unlike others, has no stake in "telemetry" aka privacy invasion.
Apple has no stake in telemetry that you know of
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#9What about Safari? Yes it's closed, and right now has a pretty severe bug related to IndexedDB and sandboxing. Webdevs (or is it a concerted effort in disguise?) complain about Safari not being the most aggressive in terms of JS API support, but this is a good thing in terms of privacy isn't it? The deal being that Apple, unlike others, has no stake in "telemetry" aka privacy invasion.
If you use a Mac, Safari is absolutely the right choice. But for all other platforms, it's simply not available.
(It was briefly available for Windows, in an apparent quirk of history, but was discontinued in 2012.)
Re: Choose your browser carefully (2021)
#10What about Safari? Yes it's closed, and right now has a pretty severe bug related to IndexedDB and sandboxing. Webdevs (or is it a concerted effort in disguise?) complain about Safari not being the most aggressive in terms of JS API support, but this is a good thing in terms of privacy isn't it? The deal being that Apple, unlike others, has no stake in "telemetry" aka privacy invasion.
Safari doesn't even meet the most basic requirement for a web browser: Support for uBlock Origin. If Apple cared about privacy, they would support uBO.
I'm using uBO with FF right now, and have used and enjoyed FF mobile with uBO back when I was using Android, but the issue being discussed here isn't ad blocking but privacy.