• P1nkman@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    If you’re still using Chrome, do yourself a favour and install Firefox.

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    16 days ago

    Chrome? A browser that’s easily replaceable with any other browser? Huh… Didn’t see that one coming.

    /S

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      16 days ago

      I’m saying this as a 2 year convert Firefox user: mostly easily replaceable. Sure, I can browse pretty much every page that I can on chrome. However, a few sites don’t work the same way - sometimes because of the site’s conscious decision, sometimes because of Firefox.

      Take Facebook, for example. On desktop, I can’t make voice calls anymore from the desktop site. For a while it was possible with non encrypted chats, but now pretty much all of them are encrypted, and FF is not compatible with that. I also can’t watch h265 videos in my chats anymore. I’m still sticking with FF, but I just can’t easily say that FF is just as good for everything (I’m still not going back to chrome).

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      16 days ago

      Thanks for this!! I became spoiled with Arc’s UI, but it’s a Chrome based browser. This looks like it’s the same experience without the bs.

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        16 days ago

        Yeah. Zen is a bit newer and I’d say not quite as slick an experience yet, but it has come a long way in the last couple months and is getting very good

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      15 days ago

      This looks really interesting, but I have so many questions. A few important ones that come to mind immediately:

      1. What is the user agent that’s reported? I’m guessing Firefox, but if there are any indicators that would give it away it’s not Vanilla Firefox or a popular fork, this could make you more unique.
      2. Are the mods publicly identifiable? Another thing that might make you very unique and prone to fingerprinting.

      A core part of being private online is blending in with traffic, so using a niche browser like Zen (depending on the configuration) would make you stand out.

      The product looks good, and the privacy policy is pretty good too. Still, it’d be good to understand all the aspects of how Zen prevents you from standing out in the crowd.

      I don’t know if you or someone else can speak to this. I would jump into their community, but it’s on Discord, so that’s absolutely not happening.

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    16 days ago

    What is everyone’s thoughts on duckduckgo browser? I’m on grapheme os and have always used Firefox on my desktop