• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    The problem is Mozilla advertises themselves as this last bastion of privacy but a cursory glance at their own privacy policy makes it very clear that they’re blowing smoke up your ass.

    Yes, you can change some settings and add extensions to make it private but out of the box it is anything but.

    The sad truth is that, despite being a basic necessity, there are no “good” browsers. It’s very difficult to have a monetization model that is privacy-respecting.

    Yes you can use something like Mullvad that is totally privacy-respecting out of the box, but it’s so far down the scale that it will break a lot of sites.

    Brave is just the flavor of shit that I choose to eat.

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      1 year ago

      Fair enough. I’m glad it works for you.

      For what it’s worth mullvad browser works for all of my use cases, I haven’t found anything it doesn’t work for.

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        1 year ago

        It’s mainly NoScript that breaks sites for me, and there’s no way to disable it.

        Actually currently my Mullvad browser is not working at all. I have no idea why. My other 4 browsers continue unfettered but Mullvad won’t load a single webpage.

        Plus not being unable to be set as the the default browser means I often forget it’s even there.

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          You can open up the no script options and click on disable globally.

          Sorry to hear mullvad’s not loading anything. Seems like a weird bug

          Setting the default browser, is a problem on Windows, there is a workaround I could dig up for you if you want. But basically you have to make a script and then modify the registry to point to that script as the default browser. It’s a pain in the butt but it works. Thankfully on Linux, and Mac OS it just works as the default browser

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              1 year ago

              On Qubes it just worked after I did --register-app

              Their GitHub has an issue open for it in Linux, I see that the tor project is working on a solution as well to make it more elegant.

              But since it doesn’t load any web pages for you, you don’t want to make it your default anyway.

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                1 year ago

                On Qubes it just worked after I did --register-app

                “Command not found”. This is exactly why I don’t even bother anymore.