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Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
WaPo ^ | June 21, 2019

Posted on 06/21/2019 3:06:25 PM PDT by upchuck

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To: Dacula

Unusable? In what way? I use it all the time.


41 posted on 06/21/2019 5:28:45 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

I dropped Google Chrome, Google search, (I use DuckDuckGo too) and Gmail, around the first of the year, but knowing that George Soros acquired Mozilla, I just can’t use Firefox.

My substitute for Firefox is Waterfox, which has a Gecko-based engine and is open platform. Also, Waterfox supports Firefox extensions.

My substitute for Google Chrome is Vivaldi, which is highly customizable and is Chromium-based. And Vivaldi supports Google Chrome extensions.

By the way, Vivaldi is the best looking browser out there, and it has the optional bookmark sidebar like Firefox, which I must have with any browser.

I occasionally use Palemoon as well.

Waterfox
https://www.waterfox.net/

Vivaldi
https://vivaldi.com/

Palemoon
https://www.palemoon.org/


42 posted on 06/21/2019 5:30:37 PM PDT by Southnsoul
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To: Berosus

Can I override my Verizon browser with Opera?


43 posted on 06/21/2019 5:31:01 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: thoughtomator

I just disabled that feature (I think).

Go to Settings - Advanced - Reset and Clean-up - Clean-up Computer - then turn off the feature that allows Chrome/Google to search your machine for incompatible software.


44 posted on 06/21/2019 5:48:45 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Dacula

PaleMoon has been my main browser for years now. What about it is irksome to you?


45 posted on 06/21/2019 5:51:27 PM PDT by Blennos
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To: upchuck

Firefox ousted its CEO for supporting marriage between a man and a woman.

I haven’t used it since.


46 posted on 06/21/2019 5:53:09 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: upchuck

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47 posted on 06/21/2019 6:05:47 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bkopto; DaxtonBrown
I took Google Chrome and Opera both off of my system. I installed Brave and SlimJet. SlimJet will have to be browser of choice for most Internet browsing unless Brave finally has their act together because their earlier incarnations were difficult to work with.

I still like Palemoon though and I use it for my financial transactions, but we'll see how Brave does. If it starts performing to my liking I may make the final switch.

48 posted on 06/21/2019 6:14:15 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Pretty sure that’s a placebo and the scan takes place anyway. Note the weasel text on the label.


49 posted on 06/21/2019 6:26:28 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: goodnesswins

It should be possible, if you make Opera your default browser.


50 posted on 06/21/2019 6:46:47 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: upchuck

The article says “Here’s why Firefox is better.” then continues its rant on Chrome. Did the author fail 9th grade English class?


51 posted on 06/21/2019 6:51:19 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: Southnsoul

I dropped Google Chrome, Google search, (I use DuckDuckGo too) and Gmail, around the first of the year, but knowing that George Soros acquired Mozilla, I just can’t use Firefox.

My substitute for Firefox is Waterfox, which has a Gecko-based engine and is open platform. Also, Waterfox supports Firefox extensions.

My substitute for Google Chrome is Vivaldi, which is highly customizable and is Chromium-based. And Vivaldi supports Google Chrome extensions.

By the way, Vivaldi is the best looking browser out there, and it has the optional bookmark sidebar like Firefox, which I must have with any browser.

I occasionally use Palemoon as well.

Waterfox
https://www.waterfox.net/

Vivaldi
https://vivaldi.com/

Palemoon
https://www.palemoon.org/

Best post.

52 posted on 06/21/2019 7:28:22 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: upchuck

Dissenter Browser


53 posted on 06/21/2019 7:34:15 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!me t)
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To: RandallFlagg; Overtaxed; crusher2013; All

Wow, that is a good browser!

I just installed it and it imported everything - all the bookmarks, history, even the previously-read posts on FR were highlighted! Excellent!!

*** BTW, first thing it told me when I surfed back to FR was that three 3rd Party cookies had been blocked ... ALL GOOGLE JAVASCRIPTS

(urchin.js)


54 posted on 06/21/2019 7:50:59 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Well, I really hope that you wont miss all of the YouTube commercials.

I haven’t seen one in months.
Brave blocks them for me.


55 posted on 06/21/2019 8:04:30 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Peter W. Kessler
I feel sorry for whoever from the Google, NSA, ect who's watching me. Hope they don't die of boredom.
56 posted on 06/21/2019 8:14:30 PM PDT by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
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To: ducttape45

Thanks for SlimJet tip. I’ll investigate.....


57 posted on 06/21/2019 8:15:45 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: upchuck

First Firefox chases some of us back to Chrome by disabling a lot of the useful add-ons and now this...they must be in cahoots....


58 posted on 06/22/2019 3:46:17 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: BipolarBob

Do you run windows or linux? I thought you had to use a nightly build and compile it yourself to run it on windows. On linux/ubuntu, Chromium is in the standard software repositories, all pre-compiled.

I have Chromium but use Vivaldi which is Chromium based. I like the feature set that Vivaldi has. I have Brave and Firefox too. I use firefox when I find a website (web application really) that doesn’t work with the ‘off brand’ browsers.

The big pita for me is that I use weather.gov aka NWS for my weather and their radar pages run flash and no one wants to support it anymore.

Here’s my local radar. https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=sgf&product=N0R&loop=yes

I have to give Vivaldi permission to run flash on that page, once everyday when I first start the browsing session. Brave won’t run it at all. Of course getting flash on linux is a trick too.

It’s almost real-time and you can set it to auto-update.

They have a radar mosaic that has the entire USA but it doesn’t run flash.
https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

Can’t stand google and have never trusted them, at least ever since I heard an exec say that their dream is for you to be walking down the street and they know there’s a sale on something in a store up ahead that they know you’re interested in due to having your data profile so they can tell you about the sale. All based on your surfing and purchase history. Big Brother.


59 posted on 06/22/2019 6:02:16 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Pollard

I use Linux. Zorin specifically. Win10 drove me here. It kept getting slower and slower every day of its existence.


60 posted on 06/22/2019 7:01:13 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I heard a joke the other day that the CNN poll showed . . . No that was it. The CNN poll.)
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