I really like the Librewolf browser and DuckDuckGo search engine and mobile browser. The Iceraven browser on mobile is also quite nice.
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Just let you know. Some Qwant queries goes to microsoft for “security purposes” It’s on their Privacy Policy. Also they keep logs for more than a year.
I wish qwant wouldn’t have so many problems. It could be a really good search engine
Yeah, there was something quirky with lite.qwant.com results that made it unusable… Will want to check on it again soon
Not only that
- springer holds a share of qwant and springer is a rubbish company.
- qwant on mobile shows you the mobile sites of the search results instead of the “real” website. I think that’s a tiny but important difference.
- qwant doesn’t show you the protocol, i.e. http, ftp, etc. And hides SSL encryption of sites.
- qwant forces you to choose a country and only serves higher income countries. Qwant shows you different results in different countries. It’s not just an english or french web, it’s a canadian french, frensh frensh, etc. Web.
Hardened Firefox + Searx, along with Noscript, Ublock Origin, and cookie autodelete. Mobile is the same thing but with Mobile Firefox.
Librewolf is actually better, no need to manually make firefox better (or other firefox fork).
It takes like 5 minutes to harden Firefox and 30 minutes to build librewolf from source.
I use Gentoo, I already build everything lol. But yeah it’s true that it takes no time to use a custom user.js
DuckDuckGo is my favourite search engine. And my browser of choice is LibreWolf.
Firefox is my brower for years. The latest and ongoing fuckeries from Mozilla make me mad, so I’ll probably switch to Librewolf. I have Chromium-based browser for compatibility reasons (mainly video conferences, Youtube sometimes). I won’t use any Chromium as my main browser because I care about diversity and don’t want an effectivly Google-controlled application.
For search I recommend DuckDuckGo or Brave. Personally I use a recently setup private Searx instance and I’m quite happy with it.
Why switch? Mozilla has always been dumb and a little bit sketchy, doesn’t mean that FF isn’t awesome
I’ve been using Librewolf on Fedora, Bromite and Vanadium on mobile, and DDG for search but not super happy with that one and am looking for a replacement myself. Might use startpage, idk.
Vivaldi + DDG I honestly don’t care about open source. JS Restrictor for blocking for blocking some js
Firefox
Anyone using https://metager.org/ ?
I am, on Mobile.
Firefox (with a few “privacy” plugins) on my desktop, Privacy Browser and Firefox on my phone. As for search engines: Qwant, Metager, Mojeek.
LibreWolf using my custom Searx instance.
Safari and Searx
I use google often because it gives me the best results. There, I said it.
startpage has the same results though.
I like Brave with DDG as it is relatively simple and doesn’t break loads of sites. I also use the uMatrix extension to block 3rd party JS, this means most sites work fine with their own JS but any other JS is blocked by default.
No one mentions startpage.com?
The last I used DDG the results were not so good… Plus, DDG ran a huge ad on YouTube seemingly dogging Google – This to me adds weight to a theory that they are in cahoots. Even before seeing that, it seemed likely to me that there is some kind of overlap. So I steer clear of it… Maybe if the results were good it would at least be some consideration… But I think that DDG now may exist for the purpose of ultimately driving people back to Google, and for certain specific testing
Aside from StartPage, Searx instances like monocles.de. If Qwant fixes their lite.qwant.com then that will be a goto again as well
The fact that this got downvoted should tell you that Lemmy does already have shills. Also clearly illustrated previously in a “host your own email” thread. If I find that one again in the next couple weeks I will link it here to show you.
