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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

you're lying to yourself if you think mozzarella foxfire does'nt collect data. They may use it in a different way, but they still collect data. You have to jump through a bunch of config to disable their telemetry, which most users won't do.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is the least evil as far as I know, given its non profit roots. Chrome is owned by google, Opera by a chinese company. Firefox is the closest we can get to a FOSS browser.

[–] DRS_GME 14 points 1 year ago

Check out LibreWolf. Granted, anything you do to try to protect your privacy, nowadays, potentially leads to higher entropy: browser, add-ons, etc... It's still better.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

that's what LibreWolf is for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can see what they send by typing about:telemetry into your URL bar.
Innocuous stuff, in my opinion.