[caymanjim]

I'm slowly cutting the cord with nearly all social media sites and other sites that track me for any reason, and as part of that, I'd like to get away from Chrome and use a truly open and privacy-focused browser. Every time I start Firefox, I'm turned off by how unpleasant it looks. The UI is just bad. Sharp corners, asymmetrical margins, crowded menus, lack of whitespace. The rendered colors don't match Chrome. Fonts aren't as smooth. It's like switching from MacOS to Linux. Things just don't look good, and that matters.

[bloodorange]

I am not entirely confident in this but from my perspective, a simplistic reading of what you say appears to be "I want privacy but only if I don't have to endure even minor inconveniences for it."

This may never happen unless privacy was as profitable as selling data on people's behaviour.

My apologies if I have misunderstood you.

[xeromal]

You put a gram of sarcasm on your simplistic reading, but I think you need to realize that anything people use daily, even hourly, needs to make them feel comfortable. For whatever reason, the poster you're replying to is bothered by him but for something he has to deal with so often, it's hard to override that feeling.

I guess what I'm really saying is that frequently used things probably involve human phycology and emotions just as much as someone's intelligence.

[bloodorange]

Please permit me to cast blame upon the medium we use. I intended no sarcasm.

[xeromal]

It's all good. Indeed, the medium we use sometimes comes across poorly.

[circularfoyers]

As for the fonts, you can easily change them in the settings. The other nice thing about Firefox is how easy it is to change it's look. I used this https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox for some time to make Firefox look like Chrome (I've been using this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-chrome... at the moment), but there are loads more tweaks you can make. There's even a subreddit dedicated to it https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS

[nickthesick]

Now this has me interested in using Firefox, I’ve tried a couple times but always preferred chromes UI.

[cpeterso]

Mozilla’s “Firefox Color” extension is another way to easily customize your Firefox theme colors:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-color...

[mechnesium]

That’s awesome. I took that cord cutting one step further.

I completely stopped using all products and services from FAAMG and committed to a complete digital detox plan. Using my devices with a clear intention in mind, rather than getting sucked into a dopamine driven vortex of dark patterns, has changed my life for the better.

For email, I made a protonmail and I’m still in the slow process of changing my email over on all the critical websites I depend on. For my phone, I got a Light Phone II. For my desktop and laptop OSes, I use Linux distros (Solus and Manjaro are my favorites). For GPS, I use a Garmin, and for reading, I use a Kobo e-reader.

It’s ironic that devices that do everything for us, instead of specializing in one important thing, have negatively impacted our lives when they were supposed to improve them.