Posted on 12/28/2022 8:56:14 AM PST by rapture-me
I've been using Firefox for years and am now ready to switch. I'm looking for a browser that protects my identity, is reliable, and compatible with most websites. Any recommendations from our experts?
Brave with Quant engine, Proton Mail.
I’ve switched to presearch.org for all substantive searches. Its search algo doesn’t seem to censor info like google, brave, and duck.
I’m also about to test drive this one:
Duck Duck Go appears to have gone over to the dark side. They track and censor info.
Brave
Have used it since it first came out
Another vote for Brave
After I typed that I remember seeing something about it not being as safe as it was. When you ask technical questions, you should ask for ID. I certainly have none! I married one though and brought 3 into this world. The fourth is a nurse. I wanted an auto mechanic, didn’t get one but I got one as a grandson. Problem is, he’s stationed in Germany.
I didn’t intentionally mean to lead you astray. Next time you need quilting advice, cooking help, or assistance understanding a crochet pattern, I have credentials! 😬
I used to like Pale Moon, it was a Firefox fork that started developing on its own a while ago. It’ll be very familiar to Firefox, but the development on it is broken for several websites. Such as ATT logging in, it gets to the text code to sign in, but the submit button never works. I have it on my office tower, but I’m not on that all that much anymore.
But definitely another +1 to Brave. works pretty well, although some sites don’t like it either. There is a mobile version of it you can download on your phone, and you can sync bookmarks and tabs between them.
The other critical thing for me is browser appearance. By that I mean, tabs on bottom. Firefox years ago abandoned that and have tabs at the top of the screen despite pleas from users to let the users decide. A few die-hards have written script to put the tabs on bottom and I have copied a script to do just that. I don't know of any other browser that has the old look of the original Netscape Navigator that became Firefox.
I use Brave, too. Any browser that wants you to log in is inherently unsecure. Firefox was great for a long time, but now it needs to fade away.
Brave, Proton VPN and AdGuard.
I remember using Netscape and watching the little ball twirl and twirl while simple pages were loading.
I use Opera. It’s got an ad blocker and a free VPN.
Install the add-on called: uBlock Origin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
“Install the add-on called: uBlock Origin”
“NoScript” is ten times better.
Try Searx.org instead for a web browser.
DDG is tracking you, despite what they say, and the results you get are still primarily advertisements.
You’ll see the difference immediately with SearX.org, and there are tons of independently hosted instances, not one central clearing house trying to sell you something.
Each of these at the following link are a separate instance, but I stick with the original SearX.org.
Thank you. My husband, my sons and all but one of my grandsons think I should know all these things by osmosis!
My computer geek who’s getting ready to graduate from Purdue is super helpful. Even if his degree is in cartoon gaming. That is how I get under his skin.
He’s started posting on YouTube and has 1.37k subscribers. He beat a game that no one else has beaten then he went back and made a video of himself narrating the game, explaining how he did it. Sky Rim. He has a good voice for narration. So maybe a degree in computer cartoons won’t be so bad. Edgeomega is his handle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UfD7xOKrg&t=471s 44,000 views.
Thanks for your advice on the browser.
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