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No web browser offers a good out of the box experience. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by the_crab_man@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT.

Here are my problems with some popular browsers.

Mozilla Firefox: Pocket integration, no ad-blocking without extensions.
Brave: Everything related to crypto. Also its start page is horrible.
Chromium: No ad-blocking without extensions and soon Manifest v3 will cripple all content blockers.

Now, these suboptimal defaults wouldn't be such a big problem if the configuration files were easy to backup and restore and respected the XDG base directory specification.

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[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You should REALLY try Vivaldi.

Best browser for desktop and mobile. Privacy respecting and great onboarding, plus very versatile and powerful if you want that.

Or keep it simple. They let you choose.

https://vivaldi.com/

[–] the_crab_man@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Web browsers handle the most sensitive information about a user, so I would never trust a proprietary browser.

[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Most of Vivaldi is already open source. The only parts that aren't are the front end. And that part is apparently just minified JavaScript

[–] brokenix@emacs.ch -2 points 1 year ago

@danielfgom @the_crab_man bing + 10 auto bookmarked paves which i dont care about

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[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I don't think my browser came in a box since it was for sale on store shelves and called Netscape Navigator.

[–] Mandrew002@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use tor

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[–] skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

I hate eshittifcation

[–] thecam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

True.

I wish someone can fork Brave on desktop and mobile and take out all the other stuff. And if someone could fork firefox for desktop and mobile and make it a hardened browser out of the box.

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[–] DarkDiamondK@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Man, not even devices come with a good out of box experience anymore, my phone and PC I have to add so many extensions that slow them down just to prevent ads and other crap they come with, half that nice expensive chip and ram is used up before I get use anything

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