[X] My Assistant

since I don’t have to re-login to google stuff (mainly YouTube) every bloody time I cleared my cookies.

Why do you even need that sort of functionality ? why do you need an account for youtube ?
You've got [ytdl-org.github.io] youtube-dl (which can bypass age restrictions) and you also have [www.keepassx.org] keepassX to save you passwords safely (safer than letting them in your browser) just learn the shortcuts CTRL+B to copy the username and CTRL+C to copy the password.

You can even watch directly your vids in [www.videolan.org] VLC/[mpv.io] MPV just paste the URL in the player and it just works and you also have the benefit of using hardware decoding instead of software decoding.

I like Firefox for personal business.
Chrome for general use, when I don't care what anyone sees.

Don't call it a grave it's[media.ccc.de] the future you choose.

Chrome

That's because they can't evaluate correctly the non-direct damages that it causes. If people don't see they don't act. Computers are still considered as magic for most users.
If you have fam consider proposing them to what this conference [media.ccc.de] Corporate surveillance, digital tracking, big data & privacy most people begin to understand after this. Then go further by demonstrating it with the [addons.mozilla.org] lightbeam addon on firefox or one of it's forks (if won't work on icecat because of it's security features).

For yourself and people in this forum I recommend watching [media.libreplanet.org] The surreptitious assault on privacy, security, and freedom by Mike Gerwitz.

Something people forget which was mentioned back in the 1990's when President Clinton and his attorney general Janet Reno were trying to stop manga porn, doujinshi porn, and anime hentai by having them regulated the same as live-action media was the fine point of permission grants by users for their personal computers. Once granted, the permission should have conditions of being revoked or not used elsewhere, otherwise the permission to acess the machine for future modifications continues into the future.

One paint program (now defunct) fought pirates by using the EULA that installers agreed to. The paint program regularly phoned home and installed items to protect itself to phone home. If it wasn't properly paid for and subscribed to, it would disable itself by deleting parts of itself. Users, but mostly pirates howled at involuntary file deletions occurring on their machines. Nowadays, users don't bat an eye when programs disable themselves if fees aren't paid. Companies and governments have come a long ways in getting the Sheeple to accept lots of things as normal.

Maybe one day, we'll have Social Credit Scores become normal too. Of course, government and police will have exemptions from scoring with the rationale that their jobs (and corruption!!) shouldn't be influence by their social credit scores. And we'll all accept that as normal because the general population keeps sliding down the Sarlacc hole of privacy and freedom loss.

depends. if you take the new rendering engine into account that is shipping with firefox behind a flag right now.. visually i'd choose firefox.

feature wise and from a web developer perspective clearly chrome.

One paint program (now defunct) fought pirates by using the EULA that installers agreed to. The paint program regularly phoned home and installed items to protect itself to phone home. If it wasn't properly paid for and subscribed to, it would disable itself by deleting parts of itself. Users, but mostly pirates howled at involuntary file deletions occurring on their machines. Nowadays, users don't bat an eye when programs disable themselves if fees aren't paid.

I believe that there are multiple reasons for that, one is that there's simply shit tons of program that has the same features thus people go see something else, another one is what I said already before, if people don't get hit directly they don't react. Another one is people saying that "just pirate it" and at the same time they'll say this "lol free software is meant to fail without having people paying for it". And of course very "progressive moves" aka the "Boiling Frog Syndrome" as you mentioned. But there's a lot more like all the memetic warfare being used nowaydays for example.

Also it's already much worse that the example that you used. The latest adobe "[www.gnu.org] cloud" when you save a file, actually uploads it on it's servers and verifies if there isn't any copyright infringement. And it happened to one of my customers who's license usage for a picture was revoked even tho he bought the license, same for copyrighted fonts, it's insane what's going on. IBM [torrentfreak.com] patented a technology that detects copyrighted content and doesn't print it if no license was granted.

Firefox on the PC. On Android I use Kiwi Browser.

EDIT:

For the past few years only Firefox on both PCs and smartphones.

This post has been edited by leonhard69: Jan 5 2025, 15:43

Firefox because it's free software. I know there are some more privacy fosuced forks but I want the security updates as fast as possible.

EDIT: Oh on my phone is use Fennec, it's just Firefox but it's in the F-Droid repositories.

This post has been edited by crystalcatle: Aug 28 2019, 13:54

Google is sh*t for stealing your personal information. Better use firefox

Chrone

None! Both the search engines are a platform to retain and steal user data. The most popular search engine Google is involved in these practices. I would suggest you to try DuckDuckGo. Its a private search engine that provides utmost privacy for what you search.

Duck isn't any different, they just aren't monetizing their user's searches enough so it isn't obvious they're the same as google.


Startpage is the new meta.

This post has been edited by Pillowgirl: Sep 6 2019, 20:13

Because of Path dependence, I use chrome..

I like Firefox for personal business.

Chrome for general use, when I don't care what anyone sees.

Brave is for porn.

DuckDuckGo, Stands Fair and HTTPS Everywhere are okay for adds.

Why Brave for porn specifically?

FF for now

Why Brave for porn specifically?

because they obviously don't realize how messed up their usage patterns are
it's not a good browser choice.

Firefox

Firefox is better for me.
More easy to move from a pc to another.

A job application portal wouldnt function at all on FF, I might have to use Chrome more regularly.

Ungoogled Chromium for now, but I'm relying on web browsers less and less as time goes on.