Vexz @ Vexz @kbin.social

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I switched back and forth between Firefox and Chromium based browsers like Brave and Vivaldi. To be fair Firefox felt slow in comparison for a long time but that changed in the last few months. I think since about Firefox v114 I don't feel a difference anymore and that's why I'm using Firefox now. Best is to tell those people to try Firefox again because it recently became faster (in my experience).

It's not necessary but it ensures that all DNS queries are processed by your router. It could be that there's software that uses a specific DNS server hardcoded to make sure they can avoid your Pi-hole (or alternative solution) to track you.

But still I wouldn't risk it because it's against the TOS. It can happen and nobody knows if they ever take stronger action.

But still I wouldn't risk it because it's against the TOS. It can happen and nobody knows if they ever take stronger action.

No, but your OS needs to be configured to use the DNS server on your router. Easiest way to do this is with DHCP + NAT rule to ensure all DNS queries are processed by your router.

You won’t get banned for using a 3rd-party client or client mod

That is not true. A few people have been banned because they used BetterDiscord. It's rare but it happened before. That's why I stopped using it.

From my research DNS crypt is the better option since DNS queries can be anonymized. In terms of privacy this is next level.

This makes me so damn angry! This would even make all forks of Firefox unusable.

There are many reasons. One of the reasons is this sneaky one.

Then there's more than enough telemetry Mozilla makes use of in Firefox you need to disable in about:config where most users don't even look. Lookup the following options:

• browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport
• datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled
• datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled
• toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base
• toolkit.coverage.opt-out
• toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out

Everytime you start Firefox it sends your location to Mozilla. Lookup these options:

• Region.current
• Region.home
• browser.region.update.enabled
• browser.region.network.url

These are just a few things Mozilla does and pretty much nobody talks about because they are considered trustworthy. But let's be real here: Trust is good, control is better. That's why I made some research about Mozilla and found out about the above things.

It's safe. I have a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance on my NAS for years now. I absolutely love Bitwarden.

It's pretty complicated to use or maybe I'm just too dumb. Also it looks like I can't put images in table cells which makes it irrelevant to me anyway.

I just installed it but am very overwhelmed by how this works. Trying to figure out how to make a spaces where I can make notes with sub-pages for half an hour now but I think I'm too dumb.

Haven't seen anything about Brave on my tech news. May I ask what news you're talking about? I'd love to know. Thanks in advance.

Oh boy. This is a topic where you pretty much can only lose no matter what you say because everyone has a different opinion. Here's mine.

Imo both are good browsers but they both have their advantages and disadvantages. From my experience Firefox uses telemetry more than Brave when I look at the DNS logs. It needs more tuning to be (more) privacy respecting. Brave does a better job out of the box.

On the other hand there's uBlock Origin. You might have heard of Manifest v3 which is going to kill uBO for all Chromium based browsers. Yes, Brave has its own adblocker but it's not as good as uBO and I doubt it ever will be. Also uBO offers better protection in Firefox than in Chromium based browsers. Though I'm not sure how relevant this is now since the article is over two years old.

I do have to say that I think most people trust Firefox (or Mozilla) too much. Maybe Mozilla respects your privacy more than other browser developers but I still don't think they are very trustworthy. The problem is that you don't have much of a choice. Either you trust any browser developer or you go off of the internet or you develop your own browser.

So for now you're fine with either browser but when there will be no support for Manifest v3 on Chromium based browsers anymore you should go with Firefox. Firefox is never a bad choice, even now.

I tried it but was a little disappointed tbh. It only supports 60Hz so it stutters on my two Android devices with 120Hz display and its just pretty basic in terms of settings. I do need a speed dial or something like that so I have all my bookmarks on the home screen but Bromite doesn't have that (unless there's a setting for that now).
Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad browser at all. It just doesn't fit my needs.

Edit: I just found out about a fork of Bromite which is called Cromite.

Try NextDNS. They have DNS servers all over the world and use anycast. As long as you don't need DNS blocking you don't even have to pay and you can send unlimited amounts of DNS requests. Check the latency here. They support DoT, DoH, DoQ and DNScrypt.

What kind of device are we talking about? Do you use the client software of your VPN provider? What's your VPN provider?

Let's assume you use a desktop PC with the client software of your VPN provider:
Make your OS use the DNS servers of NextDNS. This will make your PC always use NextDNS. Now when you activate your VPN connection with the client software it overrules your OS's DNS settings (as long as you're connected to the VPN server) and tunnels all DNS traffic through your VPN tunnel to avoid a DNS leak.

He talks about Mozilla's official terms of their user's privacy. Doesn't matter what OS, search engine and video platform he uses.

I knew that before but there's something you can do about it. At least I hope it helps.

In about:config find and set the following options:
extensions.pocket.enabled = false
toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base = "" (empty string)
toolkit.coverage.opt-out = true
toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out = true
browser.region.update.enabled = false
browser.region.network.url = "" (empty string)

Block the following domains in Pi-hole, AGH, NextDNS or of you don't use any of that then in you hosts file:
spocs.getpocket.com
location.services.mozilla.com
contile.services.mozilla.com
getpocket.cdn.mozilla.net

I wouldn't trust Startpage anymore since they were bought by an advertisement company. Better use Whoogle fo get results from Google.