But like, OP, legitimately, have you joined the church of hardened Firefox yet? We can save your eternal data from marketing damnation, and unreservedly block ads.
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Seriously, I wish more people understood the futility of trying to block ads on a browser made by a company whose main business is ads.
No, I use Librewolf for daily browsing.
That’s hardened Firefox, my fellow FOSS aficionado.
Does that make me a fundie?
Lmao, don’t be ridiculous. It makes us fundies.
Switched from edge to Firefox recently. While edge is extremely good and the user experience is about the same, I did it in protest to Google/chromium.
Also started using duckduckgo. Was a good choice.
Yeah, Bing has better porn results
integration of ai and data from windows usage will only make bing even better at finding your specific 'interests', too.
I switched from DuckDuckGo to SearXNG to Whoogle to LibreX and finally to Startpage, all so I don’t have to get results only from Bing
I'm using Phind. It's presumably using Google search, but it skips all the bloat and ads, skips clicking through the links one by one, and rummaging through articles full of more ads and annoying popups. Then it summarizes everything with sources, if I ever need to go to the page directly (which I mostly don't need to). And it supports bangs for Google and DDG, if you need to go old-school.
My issue with Phind is its developer oriented, and has been quite slow in my experience with their new model.
I'm a developer, so that's a bonus for me. However, it's just ChatGPT with access to search, you can use it for anything, not just code. I tends to produce scripts rather than guides when you ask how to do something, but if you get used to it, it's just a matter of phrasing your query the right way. I don't know of any other similar service - other than Bing - that can search on web and crunch the results for you. And I find Phind to be much more reliable than Bing.
Does using librewolf make me an evangelical Christian?
Does using tor make you a zealot?
It's like how there's a Catholic church, but not everyone follows the word of the pope. The same banner, not the exact same following.
So this is what Lemmy users look like.
I have this weird belief that I'll know it when I meet one in person. Rationally I know I probably won't know, but part of me fully expects to run into someone gushing about Star Trek and Linux and communism (or some other stereotypically Lemmy thing) and just instantly know this person uses Lemmy without even needing to ask
I promise to live up to your expectations
haha ty :)
I thought they were dressed as Pulp Fiction characters for Halloween.
Do you want to talk about Linux?
Yes, and I do, all the time!
Let's talk then. Favourite distro?
Hey, I think that's what !linux@lemmy.world is for.
I am on Ubuntu right now, my first full time use distro. I am thinking of jumping to Mint though next. I installed Ubuntu onto huge partition though so I'd have to erase and start over and that's giving me pause. Whatever I use next has to alloe me to do work (office apps), play Steam games and work in the debian style at the terminal. I'm open to suggestions...
Well, I’ve always been more of a proud browser agnostic, but I must confess my digital sins have often led me down the path of chrome and safari. But preach dear missionary, can Firefox truly offer redemption from the purgatory of endless updates and privacy woes?
updates, no. firefox releases updates frequently, even for pissy little shit that could have waited until a next milestone. but the rest, absolutely.
I like rolling releases, what can I say
I’ve been using Waterfox recently and i really like it.
The only thing that's stopping me from swapping fully to Firefox is finding a good password manager that will keep the passwords up-to-date between several machines.
Double points if it will let me import the passes from chrome.
I use Bitwarden for this. You might wanna check it out.
Firefox has a built in one that works pretty well
As long as you also have a primary password for encrypting the stored passwords.
I use keepassdx which has an extension for working with Firefox. I use syncthing to copy the database file between my phone, laptop, and backup location.
Check out Proton pass.
Is Proton Pass worth using yet? It's relatively new, and it kinda seems like Proton tries to juggle too many different services. I'm already paying for Proton so I might switch over from Bitwarden eventually.
It's pretty good. The only complaint I have is the "login" field is the username or email. If you have a username that you must use to log in, there is no "email" field for that login, though I guess you could just put it in that login's note section. That's a very minor complaint. Otherwise it has worked flawlessly on my android and windows pc and Linux mint pc. I moved from dash lane and it's overall smoother and more convenient than dash lane. And the UI is better.
BUT. The most important thing here. The king of features. The big one. Is the ability to instantly generate a new email address that redirects to your main proton address for use in various online accounts. If you pay for Proton that means you have unlimited of these. I am currently in the process of purging my Gmail and having a different, unique email for EVERY online account. Not a single one will have my raw, main Proton email address. These are unrelated to the contents of your main address (unlike how Gmail does the address+extra@gmail thing) so they are completely anonymous. They are also revokable at any time so if you start getting ANY spam emails at all, even a single one, you know where it came from and you can change that affected account to use a new address and simply delete the affected/leaked address.
These addresses are generated and integrated into Proton pass so it's crazy simple to use them. The hard part is going through all your existing accounts and requesting an email change retroactively but new accounts? There's no reason to not use a randomly generated email address. Not even my family knows my root email. Everyone gets a new one. By default, it includes the name of the site in the email address for easy identification. You can choose to customize it too, even change the domain to one of a few available.
I promise I'm not sponsored or something lmao. I just really fucking love the anonymity and control this kind of system gives you, while at the same time being super convenient.
Edit: pair this with an anonymous card service like privacy.com and you're so fucking solid.
In use 1pass and it integrates super well. But it you don’t want to b cough up the dough definitely use bitwarden