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Firefox FTW! (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also on iOS. I really wish ghostery dawn was actively maintained.

I’m using it as my default browser for link handling purposes, since it anonymizes a lot of things and allows me to open everything as a ghost tab by default (like private/incognito, but with extra protections, like it doesn’t allow communication with the cookie servers at all, it doesn’t just block them from your device)

But the default search is terrible, and there’s no image search. It looks like it was basically scrapped a year ago (no updates since), and if it weren’t for calling back to its own protection servers for most things I wouldn’t trust it.

But I love it for default pagelink handling. No auto-reader mode, only downside.

I use Firefox with ecosia as my search provider for actual searches and browsing (supposedly they plant trees in exchange for very limited promoted results, but it’s not google so Meh.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like Ecosia. It may use Bing's results, but those are better than Google's these days.

Personally, though, I prefer metasearch engines, like SearXNG.