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_-____-_ | 2 years ago

Firefox with uBlock Origin and various about:config flags disabling telemetry, autocomplete, etc.

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SoftTalker|2 years ago

You're putting a lot of faith in uBlock Origin though. You have to grant it full permissions when you install it. Not at all saying that uBlock Origin is doing anything nefarious, but it certainly could.

aceazzameen|2 years ago

I mean, anything you install on your hardware can do something nefarious. Edge is built into Windows, so who knows how deep its permissions can go.

Luckily uBlock Origin is open source and viewable on github, and isn't driven by greed. So I trust it more than Microsoft or any big tech company.

arepublicadoceu|2 years ago

Yeap, everything can do nefarious things.

But, somehow I trust a random dev that refuses to accept donations, even though my cheap ass would definitely donate to him, more than Microsoft, apple and (insert BigTech here)

nottorp|2 years ago

Well some people are putting a lot of faith in Chrome, which is owned by Google. I don't know which choice is more risky...

account42|2 years ago

I have more faith in gorhill behaving ethically than either of Mozilla, Google, Microsof or Apple, yes.