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Ad blocking shouldn't be tied to the browser, anyway. ublock is superb, imagine if firefox devs should have to develop it along with the browser (that nowadays is a herculean task).
Anyway, extensions give user freedom to chose how they use their browser.
Pocket take 2 seconds to disable.
It’s kinda the same with Brave. Just take 2 seconds to turn off the crypto thing and forget it was ever there.
I’m primarily a Firefox user but keep Brave around for Chromium-based browser testing.
Just turn it off, folks!
The difference is brave is shady as fuck.
Yeah, and there's definitely some pay-offs going on with their reviews. Almost every one of them says something close to "This browser pays you just for browsing the internet!," most of them don't mention that it's crypto, and none of them mention that it has nothing to do with browsing, but is instead for clicking integrated ads.
Been seeing a lot of people talk positively about Brave like it's some hail corporate shit
They were definitely astroturfing for a while, especially around the time of that Firefox Megabar stuff on the Firefox subreddit. I can understand not liking the Megabar but there were so many people acting like the sky was falling and saying they were going to abandon Firefox after 15 years or so... for Brave.
A few years later and almost none of those accounts look like real users. A bunch of them were active on Brave subreddits well before the Megabar.
The impotent r/Firefox more missed all this of course, and let a bunch of trolls go rampant and unchecked.
though brave has 2 issues you can't turn off:
That is why forks like librewolf exist.
This list looks like:
Firefox: comes with different candy than I like but will get me the candy I want if I ask
Brave: has candy, but stares at me uncomfortably and asks me to lick everything slowly
Chromium: comes with candy I don't like and I'm pretty sure is going to kill me
Brave is based on Chromium, so the candy doesn't have so nice taste.
Just when I was getting used to car analogies, here's candy analogies
No browser will ever tick ALL your boxes. You pick one and make it work.
Just use Librewolf. It's a fork of Firefox, with Pocket disabled, Ublock Origin preinstalled, and privacy settings enabled by default.
I still like firefox. I configure it using a json file. Just load that file and the browser is configured for all users on the system.
How many people maintain LibreWolf? How closely does it track the upstream?
don't expect browsers to block ads out of the box
What's wrong with pocket integration?Nobody forces you to use it. Apart from that it stores user data e2e encrypted, mozilla has no access to your data (as opposed to chromes sync functionality). Imho, a browser should not block some content by default. But ad-blocking must be easy to enable/install. All of that's the case in FF so I see no reason not to recommend it.
Yeah, Pocket does nothing unless you press the button.
And as for telemetry that's publicly available on telemetry.mozilla.org if anyone wants to see what's being sent. It's very useful for Mozilla to see what and how features are used.
Mozilla is our last tiny hope for freedom really, in this Chrome/Blink world..
Not to mention they have a freaking Help page explaining how to remove it if you really don't like it for some reason.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-pocket-for-firefox
You're going to be spending a lot of time with your browser, make it a 2 way dialog, customize.
Firefox has an extremely vibrant extension ecosystem and seems to overall be doing well, but see what works for you.
What's the problem with using uBlock on FF. Gets rids of ads, has ton of features to custom add filters and more.
Also, I kinda like Pocket Integration on FF. Found some interesting articles that way.
In other news, emacs still didn't ship my init.el as part of the default configuration! Lol
I didn't know about the Manifest v3 thing, and I found this article. Sharing in case anyone else is out of the loop.
Librewolf or one of the other Firefox forks
Mullvad Browser
On Android F-Droid app store there are some off-shoots of Firefox that are real good. Fennec comes with a bunch of the most popupar extensions already installed and none of that Pocket nonsense.
Why do people dislike pocket so much? I barely even know what it is, used it once to see what it was about and then forgot about it completely, it's not exactly obstructive
For me Firefox is perfect as is. I tweak some stuff only because I like to play with css sometimes.
I have a little known browser which is released by DuckDuckGo. Hasn't failed me yet.
Nyxt includes a blocker, and has an appealing minimalistic interface, but I never tested.
You should REALLY try Vivaldi.
Best browser for desktop and mobile. Privacy respecting and great onboarding, plus very versatile and powerful if you want that.
Or keep it simple. They let you choose.
Yep, also they don't integrate Pocket in the browser, they just have a built-in ~~email client, note-taking software, RSS reader, calendar~~ bloat. Also, Vivaldi is based on chromium (as such subsribed to all Google's bullshit), and uses Chrome extension store.
Honestly, OP, just stick to Librewolf, it's privacy-respecting and actually open-source, pocket's disabled, UBo's preinstalled.
~~they just have a built-in email client, note-taking software, RSS reader, calendar~~ bloat
You literally get a button when you first install it asking whether you want these things. One click and they're disabled. Also OP post is about privacy not bloat and these features will only improve your privacy over using some webmail.
Also, Vivaldi is based on chromium (as such subsribed to all Google’s bullshit)
All google stuff is either removed or toggleable from settings.
uses Chrome extension store.
What's wrong with that? It's a good deal larger than mozilla's