I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT.

Here are my problems with some popular browsers.

  • Mozilla Firefox: Pocket integration, no ad-blocking without extensions.

  • Brave: Everything related to crypto. Also its start page is horrible.

  • Chromium: No ad-blocking without extensions and soon Manifest v3 will cripple all content blockers.

Now, these suboptimal defaults wouldn’t be such a big problem if the configuration files were easy to backup and restore and respected the XDG base directory specification.

  • Franzia
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      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

      • sugartits@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago
        • It yet another step along the ever increasing march to enshitifaction where everything on the fucking internet wants to collect data about me.
        • It’s utterly pointless and is ergo wasting system resources.