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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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[–] nvm 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Opera cons notwithstanding, Opera One is really nice as a browser.

Firefox itself has some UI quirks that can cause a bit of friction.

Chrome always feels like it just works, but I rely on Google's ecosystem frequently.

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

Opera has in the past been caught passing all of its users' data through their servers, decrypting and re-encrypting it there all while telling the users that the data was encrypted end-to-end.

[–] nvm 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't you need to trust shady certs to do this? I'm surprised they could even MITM in this day and age unless they just damn included sus certs in your cacerts.

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

Opera is Chinese spyware. Look up Vivaldi, it's Opera on steroids but with none of the privacy risks...it was also made by the original creator of Opera.

[–] nvm 2 points 1 year ago

Great Idea! I keep forgetting to. I don't really mind being spied on by the Chinese since they already have their finger in many other pies I like to eat...and upon writing this I realized how foolish I am!