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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And if you miss PWAs, Firefox got an extension for it now. Check out PWAsForFirefox. And unless Edge and Chrome, you can edit the name before pinning the site.

A few bugs and drawbacks though. It uses its own profile, so you will probably want Firefox Sync to transfer your password vault and extensions to it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Using it since the last major revamp of Firefox Android on all my devices.

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

Jokes on you. I've never used Chrome (outside of work limitations). I always liked the way Firefox looked over Chrome so never really got into it. I do use Edge Chromium every so often since some pages work better, but not sure if this would apply or not.

Also, does anyone know about the Duckduckgo beta browser, specifically what engine it uses? I tried it on a couple pages, but it seems pretty buggy right now.

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

Wasn't there a whole anti-trust issue with duckduckgo a while ago, with duckduckgo exempting Microsoft trackers from its ad block? Link

They admitted that by contractual obligation, in exchange for using bing as the underlying search engine they have to let in some trackers from microsoft, though they do mention in their response that this is not applicable to their search engine (?).

As for the beta program for duckduckgo on windows, I think most issues might be ironed out in time.

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