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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more (www.theguardian.com)
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A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

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[–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My gripe on a browser is I want one that whe. I click a link it's opened in a container by default so it can't scoop up all my cookies and browsing history.

Right now my flow is Firefox focus as default browser, then if it's a page I want to view later or keep open I share it to Firefox. Kind of annoying but ideally I have this in just one browser.

And as I write this and checked, Firefox for Android now does this lol. Vivaldi, the one recommended in the article does not. Not to mention I try and support something that is not chrome-based. We need alternatives

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    LibreWolf doesn't open tabs in containers, but it is kind of hard coded to never save cookies, passwords, trackers. Every time you close and open browser, it is like to open a freshly installed browser on a freshly installed OS.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Now all it needs to do is randomize your fingerprint.

    because your fingerprint can be just as, if not more identifiable and trackable, than your cookies and such.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Huh, I was just writing that I wished Firefox would do this, so thanks! I'll check it out. Much appreciated.

    EDITED to add: unfortunately it's not for me. I tried it out in automatic mode (recommended) and while it worked perfectly, as soon as I enabled it my browser started to get unstable, pages would lock, mouse pointer would disappear, etc. And then as soon as I disabled the extension all went back to normal. So it's a no-go for now. But thanks for letting us know it's there.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    well those are really not supposed to be happening, weird

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah, I wouldn't worry about the safety of the extension, though. I have a lot of extensions going already, and this is not the first one to go bonkers as a later addition. So chances are excellent it will work for others just fine.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Floorp, a Firefox fork, containerizes also. Floorp does it in the same manner, meaning you create the containers and assign sites, and only after that does that site automatically get containerized. I do something similar to what you're doing, but it's between Firefox and Floorp. I wish they'd start containerizing sites by default, but for now this is what I do.

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