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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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here you go: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/ That will work most of the time if there really isn't something special from a browser that the website needs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried using it and it simply doesn't work (site either refuses to load or stops loading halfway). Thanks anyways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like they need something specific from chrome then. No real way around it, if those sites don't really have privacy concerns then i'd only use chrome for them.

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

Fair enough. Thank you.