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Quit Google Chrome For One Of These 3 Privacy-Friendly Alternatives
Forbes ^ | Sep 11, 2021 | Kate O'Flaherty Senior Contributor Cybersecurity

Posted on 09/13/2021 4:57:43 PM PDT by T Ruth

There has long been a movement to ditch Google Chrome, but many people end up going back to the browser, simply because it functions well and many apps are optimised for it. But recent moves by Google—such as the delayed but widely believed to be privacy-infringing FLoC update—are pushing people to say it: Enough is enough, it’s time to quit Chrome.

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Firefox is the number one alternative if you want to ditch Chrome, and that’s because of its privacy ethos. Firefox is owned by Mozilla, a non-profit, so it doesn’t need to perform tracking to serve you ads. ***

The Brave browser is Chromium based so you get the Chrome-like experience but without the trackers—Brave blocks tracking by default. ***

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brave; browser; browsers; chat; chatforum; chrome; fakenews; firefox; google; internet; no; privacy; wboopi
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To: patriot torch

Yup! You were right if you’re on a phone. I’m on a computer and I forget a lot of posters use their phones.


41 posted on 09/13/2021 5:37:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: T Ruth

Brave browser is my absolute favorite. You can opt into the ads and they pay you. I hate ads so I opt out and I’ve saved 19.2 browsing hours just from not watching ads. If you watch movies on a free site like Tubi or You Tube free movies with ads, you skip all the advertising. They let you set DuckDuckGo as at default search engine.


42 posted on 09/13/2021 5:37:36 PM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Fai Mao

I also use Vanced for YT. Cuts out all adverts.

I also use Nitter for Twitter to work around the censorship without signing in to read comments.


43 posted on 09/13/2021 5:37:50 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: T Ruth

I think Firefox is suspect, but that’s just the feeling I get. I use Brave, but I don’t think it has the add ons I need, like video download.


44 posted on 09/13/2021 5:38:38 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: Wilderness Conservative

I gave up on Brave because you can’t navigate using the back button.

My correspondence with them was that they will NEVER allow the back button to navigate backwards. No rationale was provided. Frankly, I was astounded at the rudeness of their response.


45 posted on 09/13/2021 5:40:46 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: Bearshouse
I’ve saved 19.2 browsing hours just from not watching ads

That's great! But I hope that was over more than a 24-hour time frame, or else you spend too much time surfing. :)

46 posted on 09/13/2021 5:41:31 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: T Ruth
or else you spend too much time surfing. :)

Ha..My surfing days are long gone. That's over probably 2 years since I started using Brave.

47 posted on 09/13/2021 5:44:35 PM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: packagingguy

I have used Brave for a while now.


48 posted on 09/13/2021 5:44:48 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: T Ruth

Thanks. I don’t like Edge or Brave. I’ll stick with Firefox for now but won’t update it. When it no longer works I’ll look for something else.


49 posted on 09/13/2021 5:45:58 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Brave is good. Especially at blocking youtube ads.


50 posted on 09/13/2021 5:49:41 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Bearshouse

Brave is coming out with their own search engine soon.


51 posted on 09/13/2021 5:54:07 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: econjack

Proton mail, Still the best at this point in the game.


52 posted on 09/13/2021 5:55:29 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: rllngrk33
"I don’t like Edge or Brave. I’ll stick with Firefox for now ..."

That's been my experience with Brave also the two different times I tried it. I guess I've used Firefox for too long (since v0.8; Spring of 2004).

I have never liked IE, Google Chrome, and now Edge. I used to like Opera until they sold off to a Chinese company. I have Firefox and Vivaldi, the latter being used when Firefox barks about a webpage (which seems to be a lot these days).

53 posted on 09/13/2021 5:56:43 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: patriot torch

Go to app store., search and install
Then go to settings and make it default.


54 posted on 09/13/2021 5:57:21 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: patriot torch

So I downloaded Firefox and they did not let me transfer my bookmarks from Chrome; they might let me if I sign in.... sigh, too many people want me to sign in to use my own stuff!!!! (Apple, I’m looking at you!!!!)

Sorry, anyway, just go to whatever you get apps from (Google playstore or your phone may have its own, my Samsung has Galaxy—pink and red with a shopping bag on it), search for Firefox, and ask it to install. Then make sure it is on a page you can open it from (I keep my browser on the bottom line so it shows up on all app pages), and just open it instead of Chrome.


55 posted on 09/13/2021 6:00:50 PM PDT by Chicory
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To: Pollard

Opera.


56 posted on 09/13/2021 6:01:46 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: T Ruth

My browsers in order of preference and frequency of usage:

1) Pale Moon
2) Vivaldi
3) Safari

I never touch Chrome or IE


57 posted on 09/13/2021 6:05:48 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: vpintheak

+1. Brave is great. So is DuckDuckGo for searching.


58 posted on 09/13/2021 6:06:01 PM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Brave - once you get used to it, you realize it’s better than all of them


59 posted on 09/13/2021 6:06:47 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Lisbon1940

We use Opera Mini on the cell phone.


60 posted on 09/13/2021 6:08:37 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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