@privacytools dont spread this clickbait. you can find many other reasons to bash chrome / chromium that doesnt involve lies. chromium and chrome allows third-party cookies by default; disable those and bam, no tracking cookies

firefox has its own share of telemetrics that users have to opt out of, using sparsely-documented about:config entries

@opal @privacytools hi! 🙂

BTW what browser do you recommend?

@Wetrix @privacytools one that doesnt exist yet. i dislike modern browsers and the modern web

@opal @privacytools do you use other things like free net?

@Wetrix @privacytools no, but i am just trying to wean myself off using the web as much. i've used native xmpp and email clients for years, i still talk on irc, i try to make use of mailing lists and newsgroups (going as far as importing mailing lists for software i use into my mail client, so i can easily search for stuff). i use mpv + youtube-dl for watching videos e.g. off youtube and twitch. im aiming to write a desktop fediverse client as well, so i can save quite a bit of memory usage from my open fedi tabs

currently i just use firefox ESR only because at least it lets me disable stuff, even though i'd rather it all be opt-in by default rather than opt-out. i couple it with umatrix to block scripts and third-party assets from a majority of websites

@opal @privacytools that's pretty cool I admire that.

So what made you dislike the internet so much to goto all these lengths?