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But I’m not running, I’m just a tourist!

Huh, I didn’t realize. I’ve had it installed forever, I guess I didn’t realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don’t even have uBO installed anymore and it’s been fine.

Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don’t mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.

I haven’t had the app installed since I got my phone. I don’t believe it was installed by default, or if it was I removed it immediately.

Maybe? shrug I didn’t look too hard, I stumbled across someone talking about dark reader and was like ‘I must have this in my life.’

I haven’t deleted it because there are a couple of people I might theoretically need to get in touch with at some point that I don’t have contact with otherwise.

IIRC Facebook was not installed by default on my Samsung A32, and there is no trace of it now so I don’t think I removed it. shrug Otherwise, use privacy features in your browser/on your device

Or you could just not use their toxic bullshit. I haven’t logged into Facebook in like 6 years.

Interesting, I’ll definitely have to give it a shot. I really want to like Firefox, but it just has lots of little issues that never quite get resolved. That per-page zoom thing has been all over the forums and bug trackers for years and still doesn’t have a fix. Gonna have to figure out how to import all my passwords and shit back over to Brave tho, that was kinda a pain going to Firefox. :P

• ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
• dark reader
• youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
• youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
• privacy badger

Interesting, I never even knew Brave had that stuff built in, i switched from Chrome years ago and installing ublock origin had already just become the default thing I do to any browser first thing by that point. Though I will note this line in the link you provided:

For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

Which suggests that they’re planning to eventually be forced into Manifest V3 (or something similar) to gimp those extensions, but I s’pose I’ll give it a shot without ublock and see how it goes. Firefox has given me trouble in a bunch of ways (not remembering per-page zoom, hotkeys changing on me unexpectedly, issues with reddit/lemmy on long posts, etc) and I wouldn’t mind switching back.

I liked Brave well enough, but I switched to Firefox when I learned Google was going to force Manifest V3’s adblock-gimp into Chromium. I figure it’s a matter of time before Chromium-based browsers like Brave are forced to either adopt it or fork Chromium and maintain it themselves, and I know which of those two seems more likely to me.

The catch is now you have games in their ecosystem and are more likely to spend more time and money there.

Fair enough.

This seems like asking someone to do your google homework for you. :P Just google that shit and get the specs yourself.

Do they need to? I don’t think they do. They exist to make money so I get that they want to, and they’re pretty good at it, but they could try not exploiting people for profit. But the idea that ‘it exists therefore anything is justified in order to make a profit’ is absurd.

Nope, and not even because of the current administration: this country is by, for, and about rich people, and people are getting deliriously rich off of our data right now so there’s no political will to do anything about it.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don’t give your data to companies: their executives and shareholders care more about their bottom line than your privacy.

Huh, that’s unfortunate. I see a lot of recommendations for Fennec and Ironfox a fair amount and use regular firefox on desktop, maybe I should check those out. Is there one you recommend?

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo’s browser, it’s pretty alright.