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What browser do you use on your PC/Mac? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by rippersnapper@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since currently Lemmy is mostly made up of nerds, I'd like to know what browsers you use and why? You could just upvote the comment with your browser of choice if you don't want to explain.

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[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Librewolf, because it's a hardened version of Firefox

[–] prd@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can elaborate on what that means for a dummy like me

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

LibreWolf doesn't have the privacy invasive pocket extension out of the box, and instead comes with UBlock origin. It disables Google safe browsing, because Google, and denies canvas access to websites by default. It also disables the Mozilla telemetry that's enabled by default in vanilla Firefox.