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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by _cenw »

account42 wrote: post #703
_cenw wrote: post #194

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People who don't see the problem with Edge must all be domain joined or on Pro for Workstations / Enterprise. Supposedly the browser doesn't annoy "confirmed" business customers as much. I recently switched to the RC Insider ring just to get the EU digital markets update, which lets you uninstall Edge. Because it started doing incredibly creepy stuff. * Keeps asking me every day if I want to keep my new tab extension…

> I don't feel confident any browsing data on a Windows machine is private unless you install the above Release Candidate and set your Region to EU to uninstall Edge. You are still coping thinking you can somehow outplay Microsoft. You can't. Stop using software made by obviously hostile entities.

hey, thanks for clicking on my profile to leave a snarky drive-by comment

you can stop now

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by troupo »

blibble wrote: post #623
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #537

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There is a difference indeed, but that difference was completely ignored when the referendum slogans were shouted precisely to lie to people that if they left the EU they would be in the same position as Switzerland and Norway which is an appealing prospect.

> when the referendum slogans were shouted precisely to lie to people that if they left the EU they would be in the same position as Switzerland and Norway which is an appealing prospect. no-one ever said this they were used as examples of countries that are successful despite being outside the EU not that the UK would "be in the same position" if it left, i.e. becoming 10x richer per capita or starting to mass produ…

> they were used as examples of countries that are successful despite being outside the EU

Completely ignoring the fact that both countries are 100% aligned with EU on basically all laws and regulations, have open borders with the EU etc. etc. etc.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by troupo »

seec wrote: post #694
jacquesm wrote: post #480

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Average wage is a very narrow view of what ultimately translates into quality of life. You couldn't pay me to live in the US. I've gotten very close to immigration, but after seeing up close what kind of predatory situation a new immigrant into the US lands in I figured it isn't for me. Though I totally understand why you would want to move there if you are from a country in Asia or Latin America. Then it is a huge s…

I don't know much about Sweden salaries but if it's close enough to general EU I believe it might be MUCH harder to get a net 50K job in Sweden than a net 100K job in the US. Sure, in the US you will have less "prepaid" services or might need to pay much more for specific stuff but that's kind of the point of freedom of choices. You get to make your own mistakes without entering a collectivist group that on average i…

> You get to make your own mistakes without entering a collectivist group that on average is bound to make more costly mistakes.

The costly mistakes of not being bound to your employer because of life insurance.

The costly mistake of not having to think about mass shootings in schools

The costly mistake of having acess to working public transport and generally great public infrastructure.

The costly mistakes of...

Source: I live in Sweden. I have friends in the US with high paying jobs who still have to spend a week on two on the phone with their insurer after an illness, and who can't get anywhere witout a car.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ranguna »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #571
ranguna wrote: post #82

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Give it another go. Mozilla's own extension called multi account containers is pretty good and it has more features than just grouping tabs together. And there's also the panorama view extension, which looks really nice and I've seen people use it extensively.

Does it allow "saving" tab groups and having them sync with what you've actually put in them? Last I checked this was still an experimental feature in Chrome (it might be auto-available now), but it's a killer feature for me (it auto-syncs with whatever you add to or remove to the tab group also). Mozilla providing the same would be required for me to make the switch altogether (though I happily use it for some thing…

Yep, the extension support syncing your groups across devices. You'll need a Mozilla account for this.

I'm not sure this is the case for panorama view.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/02/06/multi-account-c...

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ranguna »

subtra3t wrote: post #211
ranguna wrote: post #104

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So stick with chrome where the chrome team focuses on features that make the Web worse, like manifest v3 and cohorts.

How did you infer from their comment that they used Chrome?

I didn't, I guessed and I might be wrong.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ranguna »

sadn1ck wrote: post #519
8organicbits wrote: post #77

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What's your wishlist? Browsers feel pretty complete to me in that I can open all the websites I want to open, and atleast with FF I can easily block ads.

Some links I want to open in 1 container profile, some in the other. I need a native switcher, or better profiles support. In chrom/ium browsers with velja (open to alternatives which support ff profiles), I can click a link and it prompts me in which profile I want to open. Only thing blocking me from switching to firefox. (and figma perf is bad on ff but that's not really a ff problem)

Try multi account containers mozzila extension. Works great.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jsonjason »

volsa wrote: post #478
bad_user wrote: post #100

I keep seeing Edge mentioned as a worthy alternative, and I just don't get it. First, all Chromium-based browsers will eventually block uBlock Origin for the sole reason that they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own, and they all rely on Chrome's Web Store anyway. This won't happen immediately because Manifest v2 will probably stick around for longer because of enterprise users, but the writing is on the wall. Th…

> Or if you're on macOS, give Arc a try. Tried it and immediately deleted the app again. Seriously, asking users to create an account which isn't skippable is just plain dumb?

How about Orion?
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