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by deusum 1886 days ago
Switch to FireFox, it's way better than ever, and integrates so well across devices.

What holds one back is that Chrome has made itself indispensable. It's remembered your passwords, your credit cards, your addresses, etc. All part of a plan to keep you happily in its garden.

No conspiracy, just business.
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throwawayboise 1886 days ago
> It's remembered your passwords, your credit cards, your addresses, etc.

That's the one of the first things I disable when I install a browser or create a new profile. Along with history, third party cookies, search prediction stuff, etc. Also clear all cookies and cache when I exit the browser.

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agogdog 1886 days ago
Yeah I use other tools for passwords, etc and turn off a lot (though not history! that's serious business)

I also use a pihole to block ads and trackers more completely, but I do like having an additional browser-level feature with "enhanced tracking protection"[1] – if it did nothing else, I like simply having the list of attempted-tracker on every site easily available at all times.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

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Black101 1886 days ago
> Switch to FireFox, it's way better than ever, and integrates so well across devices.

I still use Firefox but it is not way better then ever... they keep removing useful features... especially on mobile where you can't even use most extensions anymore.

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XorNot 1886 days ago
uBlock Origin works - everything else I can take or leave.
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Black101 1885 days ago
uBlock origin is one of the most useful, but I also need at least Redirector to fix Reddit, Keepass helper, Smart Referer, Theater mode Youtube to fix youtube and a few others that are very useful.

But it is Ridiculous that only about 15 out of the thousands of addons work with the latest version of Firefox Mobile.

All of them used to work in the previous engine of Firefox Mobile... nice downgrade.

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