Technology Web Browsers, What do you choose for FREE browsing of the interwebs?

Husky_Khan

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I'm sure the answer for most of us is Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but there are alternatives out there. So for those of us (and by us I mean you people this actually refers to) who have ditched BIG TECH browsers or simply browsers which aren't exactly compatible with Conservative values or things like privacy and surveillance in general, what browsers do you use and WHYYYYYY???

Brave? Waterfox? Opera? Avast? YANDEX?!?!?!?!
 

Abhorsen

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I'm sure the answer for most of us is Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but there are alternatives out there. So for those of us (and by us I mean you people this actually refers to) who have ditched BIG TECH browsers or simply browsers which aren't exactly compatible with Conservative values or things like privacy and surveillance in general, what browsers do you use and WHYYYYYY???

Brave? Waterfox? Opera? Avast? YANDEX?!?!?!?!
Brave. Brave all the way. Make crypto while browsing.
 

Abhorsen

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Arent you deeply troubled by Then Mozilla Co-Founder and CEO Brendan Eichs thousand dollar donation to a Proposition 8 Advocacy group back in 2008?!

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Don't care, make crypto!

But honestly, I think the guy was being an asshole for doing that, but I think a lot of people are assholes. I don't see why that should make me use a worse product. I have a pretty high bar for that. If he's given up trying to deny me my rights, I have no more problem with him.
 

Laskar

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Arent you deeply troubled by Then Mozilla Co-Founder and CEO Brendan Eichs thousand dollar donation to a Proposition 8 Advocacy group back in 2008?!

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Not troubled by that at all. I argued back then that he shouldn't have been fired, so it's good to see that he's back in the game.
I use Brave because it's structured just like Chrome, but it doesn't steal my data and it doesn't hog my memory. I don't plan on going back.
 

Abhorsen

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I argued back then that he shouldn't have been fired, so it's good to see that he's back in the game.
This too. I didn't get the reason for firing him either. He's not making money off of founding Mozilla (It's a non-profit), and then why would I care if he's the CEO, as long as he's competent? It's just a job. If I don't care if the janitor is a racist, why should I care if the CEO is a homophobe?
 
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I am admittedly lazy, and just use firefox with duckduckgo for search on my OpenSUSE laptop.
 

Jarow

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I'm going to share what might be a unique choice on this site: Microsoft Edge

Okay, not entirely, I use Chrome and Firefox too depending on which browser most recently gave me problems with which application (Edge annoyed me with an online class I'm taking, so Firefox is now used for that class; Chrome is currently being used for D&D, but Edge is the one I use for most things). It's easier to shift browsers than windows for me for task separation, and it's easier to deal with three browsers with specific sites to quickly access than one browser with three windows with that same set of sites.

The new chromium version of Edge works pretty well, but I'm mostly just too lazy to change default browser and unwilling to change; the second part was true even before then.
 

ParadiseLost

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I'm currently using Chrome, but planning on eventually switching over to Brave entirely for most browsing activities. Also thinking of restricting my porn use to TOR to get more serious about segregating my online life.
 

S'task

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I'm going to share what might be a unique choice on this site: Microsoft Edge

Okay, not entirely, I use Chrome and Firefox too depending on which browser most recently gave me problems with which application (Edge annoyed me with an online class I'm taking, so Firefox is now used for that class; Chrome is currently being used for D&D, but Edge is the one I use for most things). It's easier to shift browsers than windows for me for task separation, and it's easier to deal with three browsers with specific sites to quickly access than one browser with three windows with that same set of sites.

The new chromium version of Edge works pretty well, but I'm mostly just too lazy to change default browser and unwilling to change; the second part was true even before then.
I actually have shifted to using Edge for most of my browsing as well. I only keep Chrome up because my work VPN claims that it works best with chrome and by using Chrome exclusively for accessing my work VPN, it means I don't have to deal with the weird stupidity that sometimes arises from it (IE, I have to close my browser and reopen it to log back into my work VPN sometimes, easier to do when you have a single browser dedicated to it and then keep the rest of your web stuff to a different program).
 

commanderkai

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I just got Waterfox. I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm going to give Brave a trial run to see if it's worth it. Having "privacy respecting ads" sounds like it can be abused. Respecting privacy is fine but an ad that's annoying isn't worth it.
 

Abhorsen

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I just got Waterfox. I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm going to give Brave a trial run to see if it's worth it. Having "privacy respecting ads" sounds like it can be abused. Respecting privacy is fine but an ad that's annoying isn't worth it.
You can turn off the ads if you want. But I want to support the site, and you get paid for the ads. They appear like notifications on your screen.
 
Currently using the Dissenter Browser (for anything vaguely sensitive politically) in tandem with the chromium version of Edge (for everyday and study stuff). I can say I'm satisfied so far
 

Whitestrake Pelinal

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I'm sure the answer for most of us is Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but there are alternatives out there. So for those of us (and by us I mean you people this actually refers to) who have ditched BIG TECH browsers or simply browsers which aren't exactly compatible with Conservative values or things like privacy and surveillance in general, what browsers do you use and WHYYYYYY???

Brave? Waterfox? Opera? Avast? YANDEX?!?!?!?!
I use two browsers, Brave and Waterfox.

Brave: Straight-foward solution to not trusting leftist organizations such as google and mozilla, whose employees can be expected to leak info to interested parties. Doesn't require any tweaking or fiddling, can use out of the box, has okay adblocking, good enough for me but not as good as can be accomplished with addons. Good perf, stable, a little memory-hungry but it seems like all modern browsers are now. Created by Brendan Eich, also the creator of JavaScript and a founder at Mozilla who was forced out by leftist filth. Has some neat crypto-currency functionality that I don't use, but that could have merit. This is my go-to browser.

Waterfox: A fork of Firefox emphasizing privacy. My replacement for Pale Moon, which was my replacement for Mozilla a few years back. Very strong addon support so can be customized thoroughly with strong adblock/anti-scripting protection, good perf, no third party 'partner' bloat such as Firefox has acquired. Having taken a liking to Brave I mostly use that, but if I ever had to change, Waterfox would be my immediate choice.
 

Zachowon

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I honestly use Chrome because it is sleek and makes life for me easier, I use Explorere and Edge at times, for Military access stuff. I don't really care about big tech, my life is owned by the government. Nothing outside my workplace isn't public knowledge basically.
 

Rocinante

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Chrome. It works for what I need, has a clean UI, and I gave up on privacy a while ago so I dont care about those other browsers. If I actually want something that be private, it doesn't go onto networked electronics, period.
 

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