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Krustacean wrote

Tip: Don't use Google if you care about your privacy.

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blue37 wrote

I would suggest qwant there is a reason why but I can't be bothered to go into detail why to use over duckduckgo the only thing is once the new European laws come in to place then it will probably end up useless where as duckduckgo won't need to abide by these same laws

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cameron743 wrote

What about browsers? Should I also switch from Chrome, if so what should I turn to?

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ziq wrote

Firefox Klar if you have G-Droid installed.

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ziq wrote

Tor-Browser or at least Firefox.

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Retrovirus OP wrote

Chrome is good, you don't need to switch. Just make sure you're using adblocker and anti adblocker extensions. Check out the megathread, some important extensions may be mentioned there.

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ziq wrote

How is Chrome good? It's owned by Google and it's not FOSS.

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Retrovirus OP wrote

😂I don't know what FOSS is. Chrome is okay for general usage. I like it's multi device sync feature. One major thing that sets aside chrome from other browsers is the abundance of useful extensions.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

If you insist on running a Chrome-like browser, at least uninstall Chrome and replace it with Chromium, which doesn't have a bunch of the google integration and is open-source.

However, Firefox has a huge extension library. I'd be interested to know which extensions you use in Chrome that aren't equally available for Firefox

Actually, Chrome runs in the background and monitors your network traffic. Even if you are using safer browsers for riskier activity, your data is getting leaked to google. Same thing with Android phones, they are always monitoring the traffic on wi-Fi networks they are connected to. This makes your network less safe for you and anyone else who you are living with/around.

Think of privacy practices like you think of vaccines. What creates the public health benefits of vaccines? It's the lack of disease in society which is created by effective vaccines, which creates the lasting benefit-- not the individual who takes the vaccine being immune to it. Vaccines make it less likely that an unvaccinated person will ever come into contact with a disease. Therefore, healthy people should get vaccinated, so that those whose immune systems are already compromised won't get the disease regardless of whether their immune systems permit them to get a vaccine.

The little steps you take to stay safe, help others stay safe-- especially those who can't get a vaccine, or who are specifically targeted for surveillance due to their marginalized status.

The point of contesting corporate surveillance of the internet is to rebuild anonymity and privacy in a broad way, a social way. Saying "Oh it doesn't matter to me" is individualistic, and disregards the need to build herd immunity. If everyone is using best practices, surveillance on everyone becomes less and less feasible.

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Retrovirus OP wrote

Nicely explained👌 Thank you.

Switching to Firefox. BTW do you know any way to transfer all bookmarks and saved passwords from chrome to Firefox (I'll check online but.. just asking if you know any easy way)

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