I really like the Librewolf browser and DuckDuckGo search engine and mobile browser. The Iceraven browser on mobile is also quite nice.

    • happy_jello@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      3 years ago

      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.

        • Display Name@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 years ago

          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.
  • SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    Hardened Firefox + Searx, along with Noscript, Ublock Origin, and cookie autodelete. Mobile is the same thing but with Mobile Firefox.

    • dstep@lemmy.ml
      11·
      3 years ago

      Librewolf is actually better, no need to manually make firefox better (or other firefox fork).

  • 0xCAFe@feddit.de
    2·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.de
      0·
      3 years ago

      Why switch? Mozilla has always been dumb and a little bit sketchy, doesn’t mean that FF isn’t awesome

  • Arcaneslime@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • Peter Kotrčka@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    3 years ago

    Firefox (with a few “privacy” plugins) on my desktop, Privacy Browser and Firefox on my phone. As for search engines: Qwant, Metager, Mojeek.

  • alex@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • testingthis@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    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

    • testingthis@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      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.