Is there truly no good browser to use? I mean, everyone obviously hate chrome for obvious reasons, firefox is getting a lotta hate for somany stuff- whenever someone mention brave , people hate it too, and ladybird too(ladybird is not really usable yet, I guess- but It also happens to be in a lotta controversy, i wanted to know if any of ya’ll even consider using it, when it’s stable or why won’t you use it), I just wanted to know, why all of these browsers are considered “bad”, or if it is even bad, I don’t know- and what are the good options.
(I don’t know much about these anyway, I mostly use browsers based on firefox personally, I just want ublock origin that’s all lol )
Dropdrip already did a /thread comment, and there’s not much to add.
What I will say is that if you aren’t on ios, essentially everything out there that’s ready for prime time that isn’t Chrome or Firefox is a fork of one of them. So even those, there’s still a downstream reliance on chrome and Firefox. Right now, there’s no real escape from that fact.
My personal opinion on what to try? Librefox on PC, with waterfox as a good option for Firefox based stuff ironfox would be the equivalent on android.
For chromium based, I like cromite on mobile and vivaldi on pc, though plain ungoogled chromium is solid enough.
Again, that’s personal preference based on what’s useful for me, with no weight on any single feature or factor. Like, vivaldi catches some hell over the code they use for making it look pretty. Idgaf about that compared to it being way less shitty than chrome, and less dubious than brave (though in a functional sense, brave does okay, and used to be great).
Ladybird? It’s not even close to being ready for daily use. Since it’s supposedly based in a non profit, and the dickhead running of might not always be in charge, I’m open to it in the future. And truth is, if it’s open source and works well, having a viable third browser engine is too valuable to throw away entirely. I mean, ffs, we’re using lemmy here (I think, I could have sworn you were on a lemmy instance rather than piefed), and the lead devs of that hold some majorly fucked up stances. So, when you’re faced with picking lesser evils to avoid the capitalist hellscape that the internet turned into, you take what you can get.
That being said, I don’t actually hate Firefox at all, I just prefer the settings and options of the forks. I do hate Chrome itself, and despite being stuck on android as the lesser evil that’s still able to meet my needs, I loathe Google with a burning heat as well. They fucked the android I loved and was passionate about, and their browser does the same to the internet overall because of the company’s dominance. So that’s my bias, for consideration in whatever weight you’d place on my opinion about browsers
and I’m so sad, google is actively trying to kill android, what we love about android is done, It’s not even gonna be the lesser evil anymore- I LOVE F-DROID, but what they are doing is just gonna kill somany projects :SOB: (sorry, for being offtopic but anyway fuck google)
It’s right where I am too. Only add in a bit of disgusted rage lol
I use Helium as a chromium alternative in pc, it does support Ublock Origin for now, I would probably stop using it once it stops.
I would also recommend checking out Konform Browser, which has a focus on security, privacy and user control. Currently only providing builds for Linux. Given the browsers you mentioned I think it is highly relevant for your interests and IMO leader in that category (though as dev am obviously biased on that ;))
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