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@Asudox Firefox and Edge are two of the biggest competitors to Chrome, Edge is like a degoogled version of Chromium but with a bunch of Microsoft Trash instead, they don't even have Google Safebrowsing or Google as default search engine like Firefox does.

@whale For me it works 🤷‍♂️
(tested with hardened Brave and Mull (hardened Firefox for Android Fork))

@sj_zero Just wanted to share this information, is not a recommendation which search engine you should use. Not everyone feel comfortable with using a search engine which is closed source and owned by a company, some rather wanna use a opensource search engine hosted by a invidual or a group of people, some other people prefer search engines like DuckDuckGo since they work put of the box without problems and have usually a better usability for the modt people, then SearX (or SearXNG) does.

@free Yep, thats why people invest a lot of time which have much more technical understanding than you have to create products to improve the privacy problem on Windows, Privacy isn't a privilege which only a specific group of human is allowed to have, Privacy is a human right and should be accessable for everyone. If you miss the understanding for that, I would recommend informing yourself better then spreading false information.

@mintycactus So thanks for writing your thoughs down, before I just write a whole text about with what I agree, I just say I agree with the most things you said, but there are just few things I see a bit different or disgagree with:

-"it is both Google and not-Google"

I have to disgagree with that one, Brave is less Google then default firefox, in fact Brave removes a lot of the trash chromium stuff which Google implemented (they made a article with on github abt it) and make zero connections to Google domains, not even Google safebrowsing.

-"I think it dies fast and I am OK if it just dies"

I totally disagree with that, I don't use Firefox as my main browser, but I like it and also the Firefox Forks which exist like LibreWolf and Waterfox, we definitly need competition in the browser scene and Firefox does a pretty good job so far, just with few major things they are killing themselve which isn't good..

-"Absolutely bad for web apps (no icons, no PiP)"

It's "okay" on Windows, idk how it is on Linux, never tried

-"Firefox color tabs ROCKS, Brave profiles is a shadow alternative."

I think this is personally preference, I actually like Brave profiles more since they fit much better into my workflow, but I would love to have smth like Firefox's isolated tabs feature on Brave. Firefox has also profiles like Chromium, is just hidden in the "about:profiles" tab which is sad, bc I think there are few people out there who actually would love to use this.

-"I love Firefox community and I hate Brave community"

I don't like both very much, except few inviduals.

-"Let’s start with Brave, they are super greedy and stupid"

Not they from the privacy community, but many of them in general, yea.

-"Firefox community is OK, until things are about alternatives, they isolate themselves into a bubble and are fine with this chamber"

The Firefox community is very toxic, if you have a different opinion as them, when you start critizing Mozilla for some bad things they have done or mention that you use Brave as ur Main Browser they start harrassing you. Some of them are also toxic over people who use forks like LibreWolf or Waterfox.

@smeg You basically missread the article and it basically says, what I already mentioned and the extension is completly opensource I even checked the code myself. 🤦‍♂️

@smeg It seems like you miss the technical knowledge. Let me explain. Bad for security; this extension is so simply made there is basically nothing you could rly exploit and the only thing this extension is able to manage ur other extensions not more. Bad for privacy; it's not since not every extension can be fingerprinting, only extensions which modify or do things related to the site you access. Websites don't have by default access to the extensions you have installed.

@LiveLM I agree, I think more privacy extensions should be avaible for both, Chromium and Firefox.

@mrclark @privacyguides @privacy The extension literally can monitor itself 💀 and you can use something like Portmaster.