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[–] 52 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Why not switch from a free corporate surveillance tracker to an actual web browser?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Thank you! Mostly, because Chromium based are used by the most people around the world, and it's related to my job in web-dev and security, since at least 2014.
    It's hard to guess what you actually meant, but let's guess...

    1. For a client, do you mean Firefox/LibreWolf/non-vendor?
      Has less features for modern web-dev. Well, sure, yet the development environment is much more featureful in Chromium.
    2. For a search engine, do you mean a SearXNG instance or such as services as Kagi?
      Of course, but it's unstable/erroneous from my experience, at this point of life. Yet, is monitored for better times.
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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Searxng is self hosted and open source which pull results from other search engines. This means it can be effectively customized however you want and prevents a lot of cross site tracking but his less reliable then a standard search engine.

    Kagi is a paid search engine which is privacy focused, has better customization but I don't really know a lot about it beyond that

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

    I'm in the same boat as the other reply, I can use them for a lot of stuff but for ANYTHING work related even just viewing my schedule let alone sending HR a sick note or w/e I need chrome proper to log into the organization's intranet. Degoogled chromium, even Firefox just keeps reprompting me to enter my authenticator codes.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I personally choose not to work with organizations that require I use Google products. I take a huge pay cut in doing so, but I can at least look at myself in the mirror and respect myself.

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