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At the risk of losing credibility in this community, I'm going to voice an opinion which I think belongs to the silent majority: I do not want to customize anything. I want to read the news and check my bank account with as little drama as possible. More customizable settings always means more things that can break. If the best feature of Firefox is that it has lots of things to configure, that's a negative for me.

But this is coming from somebody who really would like to embrace better privacy...sigh...

Holding out hope for the DuckDuckGo browser on Windows. The current beta is decent, but extensions are yet to come, which means no ad blocking at the moment. That makes it essentially unusable with today's internet



Brave. Seriously. Turn off a few things at first boot, it won't bother you after and is just nice and clean:

https://i.imgur.com/tuMGc3c.png


Still based on Chromium though, so the Manifest v3 drama about Google trying to sabotage adblockers still applies.


Doesn't. Brave's adblockers are not an extension, they're integrated directly into the browser so they don't care what happens with extension APIs. Same reason they can do CNAME unmasking, which uBO can't on Chromium but can do on Firefox.


Sane defaults are always good, (which firefox has, IMHO), but not allowing the user to tweak basic stuff is a pain.




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