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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I switched to Firefox and using DDG as my search engine about 2m ago and I'll be honest I really don't care for it. I'm trying my best but I use my phone for 100% of my browsing and not being able to set a home page sucks and with DDG searching for stuff takes significantly longer to get answers with. I search for a ton of stuff that I just need a quick answer to that when searching for Google would just show the answer instead of needing to open links and such. I'm giving it a bit more time but I'll probably end up back with chrome.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Try the startpage search engine. It has been much better for me than DDG.

Firefox allows you to select a home page, tho? Not sure what your problem with Firefox is.

[–] stagen@feddit.dk 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On android firefox just doesn't perform so well as Chrome does and can seem slow and buggy.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Firefox on Android allows you to install uBlock Origin. That alone is a major improvement over Chrome.

You can also try out Vivaldi, which is based on Chrome and also has a built in ad blocker. I don't think you can install uBlock Origin on Android tho...

[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do I do a home page? When I couldn't figure it out I searched online and it said on android you can't.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's my bad, I didn't realize you were talking about the android version. Maybe an extension can do it?

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

User error, most people dont like change either

[–] eyes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's not an easy transition. My partner works for DDG and I still don't use it all the time. To their credit they are working to improve things but it's a small team (comparatively). Their browser has some good features like app tracking protection just from having it installed and quick throwaway email support but isn't quite up to Firefox's standard (yet).