I would like to know some suggestions on browsers.
Apple and Google are throttling Parler in their app stores as well as through their browsers.
I have an old MacBook Pro & Apple has done something so I can’t use Brave without getting “security” warnings & have to go through “approving” to use it each time I click on it.
ANY American friendly browser recommends would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 🙂
P.S. I would suggest NOT doing your security upgrades or browser upgrades from this point forward as I suspect they will be inserting “special coding” for your browsing experience.
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I just switched to Brave. The developers took the framework of Google Chrome and dumped all of the tracking that was baked into that browser. Brave by default protects you from trackers, and shows you which trackers are trying to follow you. It reduces bandwidth (if you were originally a Chrome user anyway) and saves time. In the past 3 days alone, Brave (claims) that it has stopped 1,840 trackers and ads, it’s saved me 48mB of bandwidth, and 2 minutes of time. It doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up, and the number I’M most happy about is the trackers.
I found Brave because I’ve been following cryptocurrency. There have been huge surges in who is going into cryptocurrency. I put an article up a few weeks ago, and anyone who jumped in would’ve gotten 40% or so in returns by now. I’m gonna put up another article about it soon.
I’ve been using Brave for a few years now and I wouldn’t use anything else.
Gab has one called Dissenter I think, not sure if it’s available on apple or other devices though, there is a windows version.
I just barely saw Dissenter mentioned on another site and was coming here to mention it. I’m downloading from https://dissenter.com/ now. (It’s also chromium-based, so the plugins should work on it, too.)
Avast seems to work well
I would suggest DuckDuckGo or Brave as a browser, Firefox Focus on the phone is also private. Vivaldi is another one (I work on web ui’s, so I have a bunch installed). FWIW, I’m using Brave & Vivaldi on a 2015 macbook pro, without getting those warnings.
I’m a fan of the ‘cookie autodelete’ plugin, which can be installed from the chrome store on all browsers using the chromium framework (most of them now). The extension will delete all cookies from every website you visit unless you specifically whitelist the site. You can even pick *which* cookies to keep. Privacy badger is another good plugin — I have both.
If you have an android phone, apkpure and f-droid are alternative app markets. If you have a fruit phone and don’t want to jailbreak it, I don’t know of other options.
If you’re at all techinically-minded, xda-developers.com is a good website for tips and discussions about what is possible for your particular model of phone. I’m barely programming-literate (html/css and enough php to get into trouble don’t make me a coder), and I can figure things out with their help.
Thanks! 🙂
perhaps we all need to de-google ourselves.