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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 month ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I switched from Firefox to Floorp and haven't looked back. Less bloated, same features, haven't found an extension that isn't compatible yet.

Same with Fennec on Android.

This article is pretty poor overall. Why recommend Arc, a browser that requires a user account to even open a webpage, and which the author himself said will probably be disappearing in the near future as part of their own product strategy?

Lame clickbait aimed at nobody.

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Great opportunity to mention Brave is owned by a dipshit right-wing homophobe.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Always has been.

Right beside the fact that their monetary model relies on user activity tracking. Yet they advertise privacy.

A browser that had a seemingly unlimited budget for advertising before it even had users is suspicious as hell.

I've never trusted brave.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And funded by a right-wing billionaire who owns the largest corporate intelligence agency on the planet. Your data is not safe with Brave.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except your data not being safe with Brave doesn't depend on who owns it. It's a technical conclusion that should follow from technical traits of a system. Those are such that using a modern web browser to do modern web things is not secure period.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 weeks ago

You identify as a liberal politically, don't you?

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ironically, I could not reach the end of the list because the fucking ads kept reloading the page and scrolling me to the top. Anyone know which of these 6 would block that?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

Anything Firefox based with uBlock origin. Don't see a single ad or anything on mine.

[–] chonkyninja@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Opera is and always was trash.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I beg to differ, when Opera had its own engine and wasn't Chinese owned - back in the early '00s.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Opera was so good. Disable images, force custom CSS, gestures! Stuff no one else had at the time.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

And it has some options to interpret data following strict W3C standards. Which was incredibly helpful when learning, as it encouraged me (and a lot of others) to don't go down the IE/Netscape and later Chrome "specialities" road. (Yes,I am that old....I still remember MS fucking FrontPage)