Some anarchist groups who also identify with antifascism use the circled A as a symbol for both anarchism and antifascism but other than that, antifa really is just the idea of opposing fascism, without any central organisation or symbol.

Check out Vivaldi. Made by the guy who originally started Opera. It's much more like the old Opera 12 with new and great features. (You should check it out too, /u/TLM_A) :)

I tried waterfox and it is exactly like firefox with these changes:

• Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
• Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
• Removed Pocket
• Removed Telemetry
• Removed data collection
• Removed startup profiling
• Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
• Allow running of unsigned extensions
• Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
• Addition of Duplicate Tab option

I liked the old Rogue Trader marines, heavily augmented and brainwashed psychopath lunatics.

So, a couple red flags.

First off - Vivaldi had a press release ready to go on this. I mean sure, they could just be excited about being the default browser and the devs may have reached out to them to let them know but... seems odd.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-manjaro-linux/

Seems odder still that the co-CEO of Manjaro decided to do this in a "community" edition. Per said press release:

>To give Vivaldi more of the attention it deserves, I decided to include it as the default browser in our popular Cinnamon Community Edition. With its remarkable browsing speed, exceptional customizability and especially the way it values user privacy, Vivaldi for me is a perfect match for Manjaro Linux.”

If I had to guess I would say that Vivaldi paid to be the new default, probably with the thinking that, if there is minimal backlash, they will pay more to be the default distro wide.

Not great if it is the case.

They're a Chinese subsidiary now. A lot of the core Opera devs left to create Vivaldi which is more true to the original Opera mission. It's still young though but it seems promising.

https://www.startpage.com/

thanks, this will be great to switch to! I've found google's engine to give me better results when searching sites like "site:reddit.com/r/privacy thing", so it should help.

Sold to a Chinese company a good while ago.

Co-founder of Opera, Jon von Tetzchner, left long before that, though. He went on to develop Vivaldi, basing it off Chromium (the completely open source base Google Chrome also comes from).

With Vivaldi's creation, he brought into the modern age many of the features (such as tab stacking) that made Opera 12 and earlier so great, and it only continues to improve.

Use Brave, developed by Brendan Eich — a rather famous programmer who got forced to step down as Mozilla's CEO because he donated $1000(from his own pocket) to a political campaign that was anti-gay marriage.

It's no coincidence that this is about the same time period that Firefox began getting ran into the ground, btw.

Brave is also based on Chromium(the open source version of Chrome before proprietary garbage is added) so it should be similar to Chrome in performance.

It also has a very interesting take on advertisements to help fund websites in an adblock world. Essentially instead of begging people to turn their adblockers off they came up with a way to make ads desirable for the end-user(non-intrusive, fully anonymous/no tracking, requires opt-in, etc.) Don't think it's 100% ready yet though. Capitalism is great.

at the risk of repeating myself every time these threads happen, the police really need to get a bunch of these Police Mobile Rave Units and just drive onto the site blasting out some really dodgy Euro House from the 90s, that would clear the crowd off, well except that one guy who took too many mushrooms and is locked in a psychedelic vortex dance-off against his new best friend, a puddle.

Chrome is known for having lots of built-in spying. IMO, people should be switching over to Firefox, because it is currently superior to Chrome in most ways.

But if for some reason you really love Chrome's UI or ecosystem, at least switch to Chromium, or even better, Ungoogled-Chromium

32-bit & 64-bit binaries are available for both Windows and Linux. I believe Mac only has a 64-bit build since OSX 10.6 was the last release to support a 32-bit environment.

All binaries are available here: https://vivaldi.com/download/

This is why it is SO important to use a VPN or proxy to access sensitive sites.

TIP: You can search for the website disruptj20.org privately at StartPage.com and then visit the site privately using the free StartPage.com proxy link option.

When you search with StartPage, you are protected. StartPage does not log any personal information, and your searches remain private. Even Edward Snowden has recommended StartPage no-logging privacy.

When you visit the disruptj20.org site through the free StartPage proxy, StartPage doesn't "see" you and neither does the website or host. All they would see is StartPage. This also prevents you from getting any tracking devices, adware or malware on your browser while you visit through the proxy.

You know, I don't know! I was hoping one of you might know. I've been very happy with Brave however, so I'm not in the market for another browser anyway. brave.com is a terrific browser adn it runs on Chromium, so it uses all Chrome extensions. Nice! It blocks ads, has a built in Tor tabs feture and allows you to pay sites you vist with BAT (crypto) to replace ad revenue.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

> Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015) Removed Pocket Removed Telemetry Removed data collection Removed startup profiling Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins Allow running of unsigned extensions Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page Addition of Duplicate Tab option Locale selector in about:preferences > General

Hey all,

​

We've opened up our Developer Channel Preview to include the Beta Channel with this release, which is why you're all observing this.

Phase one of our Developer Channel Preview does not include token confirmations / rewards for ads, but provides a preview of the ad unit and flow, along with an early look at some of the user controls.

The upcoming phase two of our preview will include token confirmations, and rewards for viewing ads.

​

For more info about our Developer Channel Preview: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

​

Much love for early enthusiasm, feedback and testing.

Just as important are Chamath's comments about social media ripping apart society. In the end, it all goes back to sites being forced to monetise through advertising. Something which bitcoin micropayments (and layer 2 tech) will address.

See brave browser for an early glimpse of what an ad free internet looks like. It automatically removes all ads and trackers, and has an inbuilt pay what you want model that funnels bitcoin payments to your favourite sites based on the amount of time you spend on them.

Google's results are customized for you, unless you use https://www.startpage.com/ so that's not what everyone sees in their top results, it's based on what you've looked at, searched, and been tracked to by google.

Isn't Debian Jessie 100% free software, including the kernel? The only reason it isn't a Stallman-approved distro is because you can enable non-free repos easily if you want to (they are not enabled by default).

I'd say the reason that people want Vivaldi to be 100% FOSS is related to privacy. They have over 30 people in their team, so you end up wondering how they are making money out of this.

To the garbage bin with this then, despite its really compelling Turbo compression mode.

Opera's spirit departed its body and settled into Vivaldi anyway and they got an android beta. Too bad the latest source code for Presto wasnt properly released (older 12.15 source leaked a few years back).

Yes! Not having access to all of one’s beloved extensions has been a concern for many users attempting to make the switch. Good news though! Later this year, Brave will be releasing version 1.0 of the browser for desktop which will be based on Chromium (just like the current available version); but in addition, it will use Chromium’s native UI instead of its current HTML and JavaScript UI. The new browser will have support for nearly all Chrome features and extension APIs… without any code that phones home to Google or the Chrome Web Store! A win-win.

I recommend you check out Brave’s official blogpost about this: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

Cnet also covered the news: https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-getting-closer-to-chrome-including-its-extensions/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&linkId=49812833

Been using Brave now on Mac/PC/iOS for the past few months, and it's like Chrome was before it started to get shitty. It's very security forward so some sites will have problems loading, but once you remember that you may have to fidget with settings on a per site basis, it's great.

Also the Brave browser - use all Chrome extensions without getting your stuff reported back to google. Also Brave for mobile, you can watch YouTube ad-free!!

Also DDG and Brave are partnered with each other :)

Also, check out Brave Browser if you're looking for a privacy-focused browser that also supports Chrome extensions! They are open-source, and auto-blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting. Funny enough, they are also official partners of DDG!

Available on all OSes, including Linux, and mobile. So if you want to view YouTube ad-free on a phone, just fire up Brave on iOS or Android, go to YouTube, and watch videos with no ads, baby!

You might want to try Pale Moon, an efficiency-oriented lightweight fork of Firefox. Most extensions should be compatible between FF and Pale Moon, but this could change in the future if significant drift occurs.

I dont even think the so called "Sexist Memo" was even conservative. It made some generalizations between the differences between men and woman but he expressed multiple times how he was concerned about discrimination towards women.

I thought it was fairly moderate and multifaceted so it made me even more concerned that google would oppress his viewpoint.

I suggest the internet browser Brave.

https://brave.com/

~~There is literally nothing in the release notes…~~

Edit: They have updated the release notes.

√ fixed >Prepare to use SHA-256 signing certificate for Windows builds, to meet new Microsoft signing requirement (1079858)

This article explains the Facebook and Twitter script issue more clearly:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/facebook-twitter-trackers-whitelisted-by-brave-browser/

And here is Brave's response on the issue:

https://brave.com/script-blocking-exceptions-update/

I use Pale Moon, which is a fork of Firefox but with a few tweaks and removal of a few mostly useless features. Also much more stable even with all my add-ons. Kept getting regular crashes in Firefox, but are mostly absent in Pale Moon.

Love Firefox, but didn't like the way its development was heading. I'll be super bummed if the devs of Pale Moon ever move on though, as it's the Firefox that I want.

For sure. I run two sets of social accounts (one personal, one for the gaming stuff), so I used to have FF and Chrome just to keep the accounts at the ready but separate. Then I discovered Waterfox. Buh-bye Chrome.

Waterfox is also a 64-bit Firefox fork. I've been using it before Firefox's 64-bit version was released. It also includes some features, like removing Pocket, telemetry, data collection, etc.

Here's a list of features from the Waterfox website.

It's also planning on keeping the legacy add-on format XUL a while after Firefox kills it off for WebExtensions.

Your wishes will be answered in not too long with Brave v1.0: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

In the meantime, the team will keep improving the pre v1.0 product. But if you can bear with us, that would be wonderful. The engineering team just grew a lot, and they're all working tirelessly everyday on v1.0. It's awesome.

I guess it's a bug, since you would have an alert from your browser if a website wants acccess to your camera. And theoretically, you wouldn't accept webcam access from PayPal.

https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=If+Europeans+stop+trading+with+Iran+and+don%E2%80%99t+put+pressure+on+US+then+we+will+reveal+which+western+politicians+and+how+much+money+they+had+received+during+nuclear+negotiations+to+make+%23IranDeal+happen.

Or

https://www.bing.com/search?q=If+Europeans+stop+trading+with+Iran+and+don’t+put+pressure+on+US+then+we+will+reveal+which+western+politicians+and+how+much+money+they+had+received+during+nuclear+negotiations+to+make+%23IranDeal+happen.&form=OPRT...

I'd love to see a reliable source for this quote.

Nope, the Shield add-on isn't built (removed from code base) and the URL for downloading any add-ons extensions.systemAddon.update.url;https://www.waterfoxproject.org/update/systemaddons/update.xml is just sent to a blank URL so it won't download anything.

Would add Waterfox and Basilisk (Basilisk is not available yet) to the mix:

• https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
• http://www.basilisk-browser.org/

They may be more useful than Firefox 52 ESR, as Firefox 55 has introduced a new profile structure which can't be downgraded to earlier versions, which frankly includes Firefox 52 ESR. So downgrade without setting up a completely new profile is impossible.

Try using Brave.

It blocks ads, trackers and malware by default. No add-ons needed.

I believe it's using a base similar to Chrome. So if you use Chrome as your default browser, you won't feel that much of a difference.

> True but Brave hasn't had a stance on "hate speech." Until then they're not on my crap list.

Look again:

https://brave.com/terms-of-use/

>By way of example, and not as a limitation, you shall not (and shall not permit any third party to) take any action (including contributing any Content) that: would constitute a violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation; infringes any intellectual property or other right of any other person or entity; is threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, tortious, obscene, offensive, or profane; constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail; contains software viruses or any other similar computer codes, files, or programs; or impersonates any person or entity.

Guess you need to move to that Dissenter browser. I don't think there is an Android build yet, but keep your eyes out!

I have been Chromium alongside Firefox for when I have to use Google Hangouts or some site that only runs on Chrome, and this is not true. Over the past few years, Chromium has been integrated into the Google ecosystem as well. For those interested, there is an alternative build without all the google stuff baked in: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

I'm also using Brave, it super fast and have built-in ad-block.

"Brave is open source, and built by a team of privacy focused, performance oriented pioneers of the web, founded by the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla."

https://brave.com/about/

Edit: Check crossposts in the news subreddit - the responses there are actually reasonable too! The normies are realizing censoring people like Alex Jones is just the beginning! Thank goodness.

Find browser alternatives, folks. Stop using Chrome.

I know it's fast and easy to use but there are alternatives!

Some of them may suck or not be "as good" as Chrome but there IS an actual free market of browsers you can choose from, unlike our social media.

May I suggest Pale Moon? https://www.palemoon.org

Welcome to the family! Brave v1.0, coming this fall, will likely quell any lingering desktop woes you might have. :)

See this post about what you can expect from v1.0: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

Not legal advice, but whatever you are googling, try using those search terms with DuckDuckGo or StartPage if you aren't already. Google may be personalizing your results based on your cookies, location, ip-address, or browser fingerprint, and what is displayed to you may not be what a potential employer would see.

Try the same search at https://www.startpage.com/, it uses unfiltered google (and other engines) results and insulates the user from tracking and search bubbling. They don't offer search suggestions as they don't store anything (if you click back even the original search is gone) but the results will speak for themselves. I rarely need another service.

Definitely Vivaldi, simply because of its color tabbing feature and customizability. It is also one of the greatest chromium based browser I've ever seen.

As well as Brave, it has built-in ad and tracker blocker, as well as several security plugins, such as tor. Can't say that I like it because it does not allow installing 3rd party plugins.

Umm.. Okay idiot, let's unpack this. Companies have the right to boot anyone off of their platform. This sassy science webcomic says so. Hold on, lemme get this call.

Hello?

They what?

They refused to bake the cake?

It's a misconception that Firefox was the first to have tabs. The independent browser Opera was initiator of many improvements, including tabs.

Unfortunately, a few years ago they abandoned their own philosophies and started all over. I then stopped using Opera and have used Firefox as my main browser since.

However, one of their founders has started a new company, which is building a new browser with the original philosophy, Vivaldi, a browser directed at power users. I'm using the technical build at the moment and I'm already very impressed.

> "To give Vivaldi more of the attention it deserves, I decided to include it as the default browser in our popular Cinnamon Community Edition. With its remarkable browsing speed, exceptional customizability and especially the way it values user privacy, Vivaldi for me is a perfect match for Manjaro Linux."

What the?

When they hardcoded Pocket into Firefox, I was an avid Pocket user for about two years (back from when it was called Read It Later.) I immediately deleted Firefox and my Pocket account, moving over to Instapaper.

Browser-wise, I floated around for a while before settling on Vivaldi. It's based on Chrome, so there's a good library of extensions, but it has a lot more options for the UI than Chrome does.

Currently, a lot of digital advertising firms fuck over, users, content providers AND the people paying for the ads. BAT is one approach to fix digital advertising. BAT relies on the Brave browser. (Read more about it at the BAT link)

MetaMask is a browser extension that acts as a wallet allows users to [almost] seamlessly interact with ethereum dapps.

Brave integrated MetaMask into their browser and now MetaMask is linking to Brave.

NPAPI plug-ins other than Flash and a couple DRM modules. Other than these, the 64-bit builds never supported NPAPI plug-ins. (Examples of plug-ins that were supported in the 32-bit builds in the past but never in the 64-bit Windows build: Java plug-in, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat.) And until more recently, some extensions could potentially install .DLL files in Firefox but those wouldn't necessarily be compatible with 64-bit builds.

The 64-bit Windows build became available in December 2015, but one would have to go to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ (or the beta equivalent) to download the installer for the 64-bit Windows builds. This is because if a 64-bit build installed itself automatically a 32-bit-only feature (such as being able to run the Java plug-in) would cease to work and, at that time, this would be an unwelcome disruption.

Now that the 32-bit builds likewise no longer support NPAPI plug-ins (other than Flash and a couple DRM modules) and no longer support extensions loading .DLL files into Firefox, there is no longer an add-on disparity between the 32-bit builds and 64-bit builds, so this reason for not migrating users to 64-bit builds on 64-bit Windows machines with enough RAM no longer exist.

 

In my case, I think I had installed the 64-bit build a few months into 2016 (using the above link to pick the platform, language, and 64-bit), and I think when I finally installed Nightly near the end of Nightly 55 the express installed defaulted to a 64-bit build (if I recall correctly). But then I knew I wasn't using one of the add-ons that wasn't supported on the 64-bit platform.

It warms my cold dead heart to see Brady get the love he deserves from other fanbases and fans of the game. I'm glad another franchise gets to experience the joy that is Brady-Gronk.

Edit: For reference, this pretty much sums up a lot

Opera is owned by a Chinese consortium now.

Check out Vivaldi, its from the former opera CEO and its built on Chromium.

For Firefox fans check out IceDragon. Comodo wrote this browser, its based on Firefox but more security conscious.

What about using booties so that her feet never actually touch the ground?

This is already an issue as we release regular grants to users and creators (see https://brave.com/brave-users-get-rewarded-to-browse/ and https://brave.com/refer). What helps right now: buffering on device until reconciliation via ANONIZE => settlement means we can do settlement analysis of flows, looking for fake sites/accounts getting grants from sybil-bots. As we give grants from the UGP, we can claw those back if fraud is detected. User self-funded grants are ok. For ads we will use the same settlement analysis, beefed up to cope with threats. As with all the other players dealing with unknown users (we do not KYC users for them to get grants or give payments to creators), anti-fraud work is a burden we must rise to bear.

The trends were extremely new, so all ages were wearing this. Back in my time, the average teenage girl's special occasion dress code was also receptionist wear.

The new Lenovo ones have a small sideways tag on the corner and it looks pretty cool imo

Edit: I found a picture

While technically true, that telemetry isn't used to gather information on features or how users use the browser.

According to their privacy policy ( https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/ ) , it's only for:

> The purpose of this collection is to determine the total number of active users and their geographical distribution.

Instead, Vivaldi relies on their official forums feature requests (and to some extent I imagine social media) to hear what their users want.

USE BRAVE BROWSER:

https://brave.com/

The creator of Brave also created JavaScript and Firefox, but was fired because he gave money to the anti gay marriage campaign.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

I use brave because it has built in TOR private browsing. It blocks scripts and spammy content and auto blocks mining. It also does not drain my computers resources like chrome with extensions in. PLUS: Many apps like ublock and adblock have deals with people to allow certain ads through. Not cool.

“The American liberal media is falling over themselves to defend Hillary Clinton, erecting a demon who is going to put nooses around everyone’s necks as soon as she wins this election, which she is almost certainly going to do.”

Julian Assange

Well, this announcement is fairly recent and the change hasn't been implemented yet, so I wouldn't expect to see forks or plans yet. But there is precedent of forks in response to malfeatures in Chromium—for example, ungoogled-chromium.

And in the mean time, Firefox decided that add-ons have to be signed by them, disabling almost all my add-ons in the process, so I downgraded to version 47, and that's where I'll stay until I find a fork which enables the "xpinstall.signatures.required" option again. If I can't find one, I'll start compiling FF myself.

I fucking detest the Firefox development team. I'm a power user and I don't need their policy enforcements. I need customization and control.

Edit: And, it's going to be Waterfox.

> * Disabled the 64-Bit NPAPI white-list so that the user can decide what plugins they can run (doesn’t make sense for Mozilla to do this as most of their user base probably aren’t technically proficient), but it’s something Waterfox users are capable of handling. > * I’ve also allowed unsigned extensions to run as well as there are still some old extensions people like to use (it’s disabled by Mozilla for the same reason as above)

I love that you linked a google search about google being funded by the government...

Here's google results without using google: https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=google+funded+by+us+government

It's open source, yeah. It does still have code that pings to Google servers within it though.

There is a project to remove all of the home calling Google code if it's something you're worried about, I personally use Firefox.

Even if they anonymise data and even if there is no way to determine who produced what data: I want to know about what goes on when I use a software.

It's really simple: I don't want applications to unnecessarily send or collect any kind of data from my computer.

I never want to have to opt-out of something. I even might opt-in to sending telemetry data when I'm asked and I think it's useful for a developer. But it should always be my decision.

I've been a Firefox user for a long time now, but I think Mozilla doesn't respect my idea of privacy anymore. This is not "privacy-oriented" anymore.

Is there a good alternative? I don't need TOR, but PaleMoon, Chromium? Any suggestions for a safe and sound modern browser?

e: just read about /r/waterfox, https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ - I'll try that one.

Opera is owned by a chinese consortium, think of it what you want (especially regarding VPN).

Vivaldi is the 'new' browser by the opera founder / CEO. Also supports chrome extensions out of the box and uses the same rendering engine.

I don't want to say that we are open source, but I just want to say that we are not completely closed source and give some information.

The modifications we do to chromium are dumped here https://vivaldi.com/source/

It doesn't include the JavaScript code. But you have easy access to bundle.js. CSS rules for modifications are also possible and you can use chromium developer tools to analyze the application, a tool all web developers knows to some extent.

It has happened more than once, well to be honest, two times, that an user has sent me patches directly on the behaviour they want changed and they clearly had advanced knowledge about how the source code was written. Both times I have added the code like the user requested.

Vivaldi is definitely not free software but source code isnt completely inaccessible.

DOWNLOAD BRAVE BROWSER (they even have a partnership with DuckDuckGo): https://brave.com/

In ~5 months or so :

38,138 Trackers Blocked; 43,275 Ads Blocked; 9,593 HTTPS Upgrades; 1.1 hours Estimated Time Saved

>We also know what version of Vivaldi you’re running, the type of
processor chip, OS, and screen resolution. Not much to be honest.

Except this data apparently, metioned here: https://vivaldi.com/zerotracking/

In Firefox I can look at every line of code(via searchfox.org), while with Vivaldi I have to trust their blogposts.

> please correct me if I am wrong, but the highest Firefox could get, at the peak of its popularity, was 22% of the market share.

According to Wikipedia, 32% at the end of 2009.

>Google products are pretty much used unanimously, across all culures and continents.

Sounds like Windows and IE during the IE6 days, when Firefox started gaining traction. Yes, it seems bleak out there, but I'll keep using Firefox as long as it makes sense to. I still think it is a better browser, and I don't really trust Google services all that much, even if they are widely used.

>the Free Software Foundation (FSF) does not even list Firefox as a Libre browser anymore.

Yes they do:

>While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software

• Chromium connects to Google every now and then. Check your logs.
• There's quite a few issues around it that Tor has compiled. Not all limited to using it with Tor - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ImportantGoogleChromeBugs
• There are issues regarding WebRTC leaking.

Regarding the first one, that's why there are builds like Ungoogled Chromium - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Privacy is not just sending telemetry.

Hijacking your comment, but while Opera is dead, long live ~~Opera~~ Vivaldi! Its the old Opera CEO. Drawback is that Vivaldi is again closed-source, and don't even try to fathom how they're making money.

> At least Chromium is fully open source.

It is still integrated with Google way too strongly. If you want to be safe with this one, better use Ungoogled Chromium - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Have you tried Palemoon? Trims out most of the we-gotta-be-like-Chrome crud that has accumulated in Firefox (e.g. Australis), though it looks like there's going to be a major split in extension compatibility soon with the switch to Jetpack (which is locked to the Firefox GUID), and some existing extensions that do not acknowledge non-Firefox GUIDs may take some fiddling to work.

There are a few cleaned versions of Firefox out there. E.g. waterfox. So you still can use stuff like adblocker plugins you know but without worrying what this idiots from mozzila did again.

I need to look into it. I've heard that, but then there's a download link for the source code: https://vivaldi.com/source/

This claims their changes are under BSD license: https://vivaldi.net/userblogs/entry/a-few-words-about-open-source-vivaldi

So it sounds like they're open source, but not accepting contributions?

I've been using it for months as well, it's great. I've used Chrome, Firefox, and Opera previously. Only problem I have is streaming video stutters, but I fixed that by changing some options in chrome://flags.

/r/vivaldibrowser

https://vivaldi.com/download/

I honestly think Vivaldi is the best Chromium-based browser. The developers listen to the community, it's fast and clean, and it offers quite a bit in customization. Plus they keep adding in new features that make it better and better.

To be honest, I've rarely encountered any problems with it, except for a botched update that forced me to reinstall the browser.

Tell all your friends about it! And you can benefit from doing this too with the referral program (https://brave.com/refer). Many people around me use Brave full time on their mobile devices (including iPhones), since they usually don't realize that you can block ads on mobile too. It usually just takes a second to show them Brave or to install it on their phone, then replace the Safari icon with it. From there, it's mostly a done deal!

That said, on the Android store, Brave should appear quite high up on the list.

It's so easy to spot people who never tried Nightly

Gecko is now just with 20% slower than Chrome at Speedometer and it is closing in. It does this without any Rust witchcraft which will land soon.

Actually Gecko is the most modern one..... being rewritten in something that wants to be C++ being rewritten (Rust). Gecko the first one that uses parallel styling and the GPU for rendering the DOM.

Gecko is dead! Long live Gecko!

It's also on Brave and Chromium. Brave has built-in tracking prevention and ad-blocking, and loads pages faster than any other browser (though still needs ublock to block some egregious native content).

They're the gauges behind the steering wheel, like the speedometer and tachometer.

link.

It’s setting up a wallet with Brave. Pretty simple to do. You can just create a YouTube channel and verify it or if you have a website you can follow instructions to verify that.

The owner of the domain or account can receive BAT tips you can either give as a user or make a monthly contribution. That BAT can be withdrawn to an account with uphold.com which is a newish wallet/exchange that’s pretty intuitive to use.

I set one up myself to test and I’ve gotten maybe $40 worth of BTC in a few months because that’s what I exchanged the BAT for but you can do BCH, LTC, even USD. You get a blue check Brave users can see when they land on your thing and tip if they want. Like a $0.50 upvote.

Not life changing but it’s pretty neat.

Browser is fast and secure too. Blocks ads by default.

Take a look at Brave Browser. When your area is supported, it replaces all ads with their own ads for which you gain money. You can then later decide yourself to who you give it to. Youtube channels are supported.

It's based on chromium, so it supports everything Chrome can (including extensions etc).

They seem to have a similar privacy policy as far as I'm aware - I don't see anything unreasonable in either of them. I personally use StartPage since it provides more relevant results in language that aren't English.

Here are the Privacy Policies of DuckDuckGo and Startpage if you want to have a look at them and see which one feels right.

This FAQ is easily answered by a general web search, but I'll try boiling it down. The reason there are so many Linux distros is because each distro tries to satisfy the shared desires of their "builders" and users. The specifics of those desires vary from distro to distro, but mostly the differences between distros come down to one or more of the following:

• desktop environment: gnome, KDE, LXDE, etc.
• choice of default applications: vlc versus mplayer, pcmanfm versus nautilus, etc.
• package management: deb, rpm, etc.
• package purity
• whether non-free software is offered
• many more

Bing it on! However, if you do want to search Google for some reason, let me introduce you to a little search engine called StartPage: https://www.startpage.com/

I find it's a little slower then a direct google search, but it's nice knowing google is essentially gathering nothing about me.

Use Vivaldi instead of Opera, its from the former opera CEO and its built on Chromium.

Opera is now owned by a Chinese group.

Also give IceDragon a look over if you're a fan of Palemoon. Comodo reconfigured this browser, its based on Firefox but more security conscious.

>How do I enable a dark theme?

We currently don't have a dark theme, but the dark theme will be shipping with Brave v1.0, our rewrite of the browser coming this US fall season.

>There seems to be a very limited amount of plugins. Which is okay, for the most part, but I need react and redux dev tools. Are they available for brave?

We will have full Chrome extension coverage with v1.0 coming this fall season.

To read more about v1.0, see here: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

In short, you should 100% definitely revisit Brave when 1.0 comes out this US fall season. I can personally tell you that you will have no reason to switch back to Chrome with 1.0. Everything basic will be on par with Chrome (in terms of extension compatibility, themes, UI snappiness, general UI layout but refreshed, dev tools, etc.), plus you'll get all the Brave specific features like the Brave Rewards system, faster page loads, ads/trackers blocked by default, etc., Tor integration, ETH Wallet, etc.

As someone who sees the work the team is doing on 1.0, I'm extremely, extremely excited to see it land.

The Mozilla founder who was fired is now working on the browser Brave.

I've replaced Firefox with Brave and haven't looked back. I keep chrome around just in case some website is broken in Brave.

Lmao isn't icecat a browser for hippies who (rightly?) think that javascript shouldn't be necessary to browse the web? Or is LibreJS actually not cripplingly restrictive?

also u/previous_cod1854 and u/Interesting-Can9653 GNU Icecat is a real browser

There are a lot of Google-specific parts in Chromium, Chrome just adds further branding, proprietary codecs, auto-update and the Software Reporter Tool.

There are projects such as Ungoogled Chromium that aim to take Chromium and strip away everything Google from it.

Potential ways to thwart Google Analytics in Chromium, if you’re looking to do so:

1) If you still need to use pure Chromium (with all Google phone-home functions intact, perhaps you could install PiHole on an RPi to block Google Analytics and other Chromium-specific traffic?

2) If you don’t need an unadulterated Chromium, there’s a fork called Ungoogled Chromium that removes such traffic from Chromium. Maybe run this fork alongside pure Chromium for a few days and see if there’s a notable difference? And if not, you can replace Chromium with this fork!

For Chromium, you want the ungoogled version: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Not sure about brave.
~~For Firefox you want to disable the safer browsing settings in about:config~~

edit: See follow up comments RE:Firefox

This post would be a monster if I detailed everything I think Vivaldi does better than other browsers, including Chrome and Chromium based browsers, so I'll link their feature page

That said, Vivaldi's tab management is so many light-years ahead of anyone else's, that if the browser was otherwise identical to everything else out there, I'd still use it just for the tab management.

There's about 100 people on their "about" page.

Don't bother. They didn't Google anyone. They're fixated on BAT and refuse to enjoy that someone else has taken chromium back to it's roots.

There are a number of differences between the Chrome omnibar and the Firefox awesomebar. Here are some ways to make Firefox's address bar more like Chrome's:

• If you want to search from the address bar, you already can. Just type in the address bar and press enter.

• If you want just one bar, use "Customize toolbars" to remove the search bar.

• If you want the address bar to auto-fill URLs as you type, upgrade to a Firefox 14 beta build.

• If you want to use different search engines from the address bar, right-click on a search field (like the one in the Reddit sidebar), and choose "Add a keyword for this search." If add "r" as the search keyword, then you can type "r jazz" in the address bar to search Reddit for "jazz."

• If you want to see suggested search queries as you type in the address bar, use an extension like Omnibar.

Based on all available evidence, he is a fascist.

https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRsLO965GLiQ8xF9W2hMLXYGckcRNEfxw9oUL2_RFD97R0HUyM%26s&sp=1623542890Tb19402ad88fbe85e8b2706c5ff33b571273bbf38ae090c66821000360b73...

Startpage.com offers Google search results in privacy. NO logging of personal info, like IP addresses. No tracking cookies.

Plus, Startpage.com has Anonymous View that fixes the main problem with private search: what happens after you click a result.

Once you click into a 3rd party website you find -- even using a privacy search engine -- you are in the Wild West of tracking. Startpage.com changes this with Anonymous View.

If you click into a website using the Anonymous View link, you stay hidden from the website and its marketers. All they see is Startpage.com

Anonymous View also protects against fingerprinting by obfuscating your device info, IP address etc.

Hope this helps!