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>> No. 27648 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 5:09 pm
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Which internet browser is the right one to use these days? I've been using Opera for close to a decade but I feel like it's starting to annoy me now with intrusive features and have only stuck with it because it's such a pain to get used to a new browser.
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>> No. 27649 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 5:23 pm
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If coming from Opera, move to Vivaldi.
It's Chromium based, so renders things, but has many of the wrappings and nicenesses that Opera users have come to know and expect. Runs Chrome plugins. Is generally not shit.
I used Opera for years, moved to Vivaldi when it appeared, haven't regretted it much yet,
>> No. 27650 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 7:24 pm
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I used Opera for years, but heard more than a few times there's a significant vulnerability that the devs are ignoring - something to do with false / out of date certificates. I tried Brave for a while, but it seems like the kind of browser designed for people who know what they're doing. I've since changed to Firefox which feels much more commerically secure, though it runs 7 processes using a lot of memory. I'm talking desktop, if it makes a difference.
>> No. 27651 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 7:39 pm
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I used Firefox when it was popular and I'm still using it now it's not. I think it's the only decent option, even if it does come with the caveat of being a memory beast as above.
>> No. 27652 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 7:41 pm
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Firefox and Adblock/Ublock, if you care about privacy at all (which is really the main thing to worry about with a browser these days.)

Unless there's a better option I'm unaware of, that's the only one that isn't secretly selling your info straight to Google while saying "Privacy!" on their website.
>> No. 27653 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 7:50 pm
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I use Brave because if I remember to open enough tabs often enough, the ads earn me enough per month for a takeaway which isn't really worth the hassle but it's a nice idea.
>> No. 27654 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 9:37 pm
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I use Firefox. I don't understand, simply out of ignorance on my part, why it's dismissed out of hand by some people now. It does everything I like and I have uBlock on it. Actually I have uBlock AND Ad Block Plus because a very long time ago one the other didn't block some adverts, so I installed the other to compensate. Now which one is the good one is lost to time and they exist in what I'd like to think is a dualistic balance. I also have so many bookmarks and so much browsing history saved at this point that moving to another browser would be a like a mini house move and unless there's some big new breakthrough in browsing the web that has passed Firefox users by, I don't see the need to change. Though the history and bookmarks are probably transferable on some browsers, what with this being space year twenty-twenty, but I don't care so it's a moot point.
>> No. 27655 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 10:13 pm
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>>27654
>I use Firefox. I don't understand, simply out of ignorance on my part, why it's dismissed out of hand by some people now.
I used to use it until it started eating up all my memory. Try watching porn on an underpowered laptop with Firefox.

I have been using Chrome, but I can't really find anything to replace is with. With that being said, I haven't actually done any research.
>> No. 27656 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 10:26 pm
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>>27648
If you're on a Mac or iDevice, sticking with Safari, particularly now in v14, does a lot of privacy blocking. I haven't found a single reason to use another browser. I also separately run piHole to block ads on all devices in the house. But as I said, v14 of Safari seems to now be doing a LOT of privacy blocking on its own.

On my Windows machine, I use Chrome, but again, in conjunction with piHole.
>> No. 27657 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 10:29 pm
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>>27653
Is that the brave coin thing? How does it work exactly?
>> No. 27658 Anonymous
23rd October 2020
Friday 8:21 am
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>>27657
On the surface of it, there are some unobtrusive pop-up ads you can opt in to and at least some of the as revenue gets paid out to you. Actually setting it up though is a pain in the arse, as is keeping it running at a worthwhile rate. It does seem to be legitimate though, at least £30 made its way to a real bank account in the past couple of months.

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