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. ***
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I love that it has NO ads, it’s free, it’s super fast, and Gab puts it out. My default home page shows how much time I’ve saved and how many ads were blocked.
My favorite new search engine is swisscows.com.
It’s three years later and Duck Duck Go has a browser available for Android, IOS, Windows and Mac.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/get-duckduckgo/get-duckduckgo-browser-on-windows/
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