Best Desktop Browser of 2020

Best Desktop Browser of 2020

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Chrome may be a resource hog, but I really love having the integration between my phone, my laptop, and my PC. Being able to send links directly from one device to the other, and all my passwords on all devices is extremely convenient.

I do notice Chrome is a battery hog on mobile, but I found some tweaks you can do to reduce consumption.
 
None of the browsers seem to be able to prevent facebook or google ad tracking, despite disabling all the tracking options I could find. I browse something on Home Depot and suddenly I get ads for it on facebook. Browse a certain car for sale and suddenly I see car ads for the make/model I was looking at. Surprised none of the sex toys showed up in facebook ads yet. :bleh:

I hear Brave is better than Firefox/Chrome for privacy. Might have to try it.
 
Nunz said:
Synced with an account like GMail? What kind of account is it using?

I haven't used Firefox in a long, long time. I wasn't even aware they had a similar feature.
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Yeah they were losing too many people to Chrome so they slapped it all together about 4 years ago (just going from memory).

Use an email address to create an account with Mozilla and you opt in to each feature individually.

Account screenshot:
firefox_account.png
 
Exposed said:
None of the browsers seem to be able to prevent facebook or google ad tracking, despite disabling all the tracking options I could find. I browse something on Home Depot and suddenly I get ads for it on facebook. Browse a certain car for sale and suddenly I see car ads for the make/model I was looking at. Surprised none of the sex toys showed up in facebook ads yet. :bleh:

I hear Brave is better than Firefox/Chrome for privacy. Might have to try it.
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Give duckduckgo a shot. Featurewise it isn't as full fledged as some other browsers, but it seems to do an admirable job re: privacy.
 
The way I have Firefox set up, I have the dom.ipc.processCount set to 50, I [may] have Webrender forced to on, I've got the facebook container installed, as well as the generic containers, and every web company gets its own container.

They can't easily cross track me with cookies, or sessions.

Chrome likes touting how much faster its Javascript compiler is, but as far as I can tell, Firefox's rendering pipeline is way, way faster than Chrome's. Faster rendering makes it seem faster in reality.
 
I know there's a duckduckgo browser for mobile, but I haven't seen one for desktop. Just the site (duckduckgo.com) search engine. Am I missing something?
 
Munkus said:
I know there's a duckduckgo browser for mobile, but I haven't seen one for desktop. Just the site (duckduckgo.com) search engine. Am I missing something?
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I use it primarily on mobile, but I'm pretty sure the tracking protections are built in to the desktop use search engine through the extension.
https://spreadprivacy.com/announcing-global-privacy-control/#:~:text=DuckDuckGo%20Privacy%20Essentials%20Desktop%20Browser%20Extension&text=Once%20installed%2C%20click%20the%20extension's,%22%20section%2C%20enable%20the%20setting.
That has the DL links for desktop extension and mobile apps...

Sorry, old man didn't think of that earlier :(

edit: link won't paste properly?? I don't know why ...
 
Lazy8s said:
I use it primarily on mobile, but I'm pretty sure the tracking protections are built in to the desktop use search engine through the extension.
https://spreadprivacy.com/announcing-global-privacy-control/#:~:text=DuckDuckGo%20Privacy%20Essentials%20Desktop%20Browser%20Extension&text=Once%20installed%2C%20click%20the%20extension's,%22%20section%2C%20enable%20the%20setting.
That has the DL links for desktop extension and mobile apps...

Sorry, old man didn't think of that earlier :(

edit: link won't paste properly?? I don't know why ...
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Thanks brutha. I already use the browser extension in MS Edge, plus the search engine exclusively. Haven't touched Google or Bing in quite some time.
 
Munkus said:
Thanks brutha. I already use the browser extension in MS Edge, plus the search engine exclusively. Haven't touched Google or Bing in quite some time.
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That's the direction I'm rapidly heading in ...
 
Lazy8s said:
edit: link won't paste properly?? I don't know why ...
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It's a limitation that allows so many consecutive characters [EDIT: I counted; it's 100 consecutive characters]. A space is injected, breaking the URL.

Observe:................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 
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Crawdaddy79 said:
It's a limitation that allows so many consecutive characters [EDIT: I counted; it's 100 consecutive characters]. A space is injected, breaking the URL.

Observe:................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Ah, it's not me then lol. Thanks :)
 
I still use Google. It helps me find what I am looking for the quickest. Bing always frustrates me whenever I use it, since it doesn't seem to pull up the most relevant results or organize its results in the most convenient format.

How is DuckDuckGo in comparison to Google and Bing?
 
Android1 said:
I still use Google. It helps me find what I am looking for the quickest. Bing always frustrates me whenever I use it, since it doesn't seem to pull up the most relevant results or organize its results in the most convenient format.

How is DuckDuckGo in comparison to Google and Bing?
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I had the same frustrations with Bing that you do, and don't even try to use it any more.

The majority of my Duckduckgo usage is on mobile devices, but I haven't had any frustrations with it as far as search results go. The disclaimer is that I don't search that often lol. A piece of equipment here and there, locations for hiking/camping and such.
 
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