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should i switch to linux? (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

You should switch to Firefox with ublock origin.

Brave is a mess of a browser and a dumpster fire of an organization, even compared to the famously dysfuctional Mozilla.

You can look up your games on ProtonDB and see which will and won't work. Pirated games are no different from retail compatibility-wise but there might be one or two extra steps

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

    i suggest waterfox or librewolf instead of normal firefox because they are just better. Waterfox also has the bonus of having an android app and allowing to download all addons (but some will not properly work because phone)

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

    Firefox is unlikely to ever sell your data or redirect websites or participate in a cryptoscam or show you advertisements with an adblocker on. Brave has done, at one point or another, all of that.

    Plus firefox is not manifest v3, so you can actually have a safe browsing experience whereas all chromium based browsers are now inherently more vulnerable to malware thanks to google.

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

    all chromium based browsers are now inherently more vulnerable to malware thanks to google.

    Could you explain why? While at it, would you be so kind to mention why security-focused projects like GrapheneOS and secureblue stick to Chromium-based browsers despite that?

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

    https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

    Chromium and their particular fork have much better exploit hardening via sandboxing.

    My understanding is Firefox has better anti-fingerprinting and uBlock origin via manifest v2 support (or v2 features ported to v3).

    The argument often used is malicious ads. Sandboxing and hardening largely mitigates ads that contain exploits, but it doesn't protect against social engineering, crypto mining, tracking, etc.

    So I guess it comes down to your threat model and desired experience.

    I personally prefer the uBlock origin experience, but an ad free experience and escape from targeted advertising was my target opsec when venturing into privacy.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Thanks! Your comment prompted me to check out this entry in uBlock Origin's documentation that also underlines why Firefox(-based browsers) work better for the purposes of content-blocking.

    So I guess it comes down to your threat model and desired experience.

    Can't agree more.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Brave is a bad product as of now.

    Firefox with ublock is at least acceptably performant on desktop and mobile without all the crypto/tracking downsides of Brave or the open unpatched vulnerabilities (as of this posting) of Chrome/chromium (that also affect Brave)

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago

    Not OP, but I'm not switching to Firefox until they get their heads out of their asses and add tab groups to mobile. The fact they've gone this long without the feature is shameful.

    They did add tab groups to desktop, but that's stupid because there was already something that did the same thing: opening a new window

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