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submitted 9 months ago by Noble_Stacking_1337@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I thought it would be helpful for all the good people of Lemmy World if we shared our browser setups.

I'm mostly a laptop user when it comes to the Internet. I've been using Firefox with the Ublock Origin addon and it makes browsing the web so much less ad filled.

For youtube specifically I've had the best results with Chrome and an extension called Clear Skies for ad skipping.

Share you own browser setup. What do you use to surf the wild waves of the web to avoid the sharks and the sharp rocks?

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Edge. I simply disable what I don’t use.

And if a site has ads that I can’t ignore, I just close that browser tab.

[–] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What about privacy?

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Some people don’t care. This was posted in technology and the post didn’t specify privacy settings.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You really cant rely on GUI settings at all. Edge cannot be made private very likely.

Using Christitus WinUtil you can remove edge entirely, reinstall the webview afterwards its needed, replace it with Librewolf, Brave, thats basically it.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Odd that you trust Brave but not Edge.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I dont, but Brave at least has no Google and MS tracking and their own stuff seem to be possible to disable entirely via bravs:flags or a policy.

They only have Windows docs though and I use firefox with hardening, compiled myself to work with hardened_malloc