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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

As someone who swapped to chrome > chromium > ungoogled-chromium > brave > firefox > librefox and then back to brave....? Idk, it feels like theres no such thing as a "perfect browser" and that all browsers has a some sort of "anti-consumerism" built-in that we are (still) not aware about.

[–] EpicGamer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What is anti-consumer about firefox?

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently it has some built-in telemetry and forces political propaganda towards users.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

The telemetry is a well known issue and can be disabled quite easily. I have no idea what you're on about with that second claim - maybe this blog post from 2 years ago? It's just an open recommendation directed at social media platforms. Nothing to do with the browser itself.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's why I use Opera /s

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I switched from Brave to Vivaldi.

I was having issues with a web app after a Brave update, so I went to check the changelog to see what might have caused it. It was 100% crypto/nft shit in the change log.

That's not what I need/want from a web browser.