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pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I have been using Brave for its out of the box ad and tracker blocking. I’d been uncomfortable with the new AI features and had always been skeptical of the crypto integration, but it wasn’t until this post that I realized it was appreciably worse than Firefox on those counts, nor how bad the people running it are.

Obviously, I’m now looking for other options. I’ve seen some good recs for desktop browsers elsewhere on this post, but what I’m not seeing is a lot of good mobile browser suggestions that will have the desired features. What would the folks here suggest for an e/OS browsing experience with similar or better privacy and ad blocking options? I know there’s Firefox, but A. With all the AI it keeps pushing, I’m sure there has to be better and B. I do also have mobile Firefox but have found it substantially less usable for my habit of browsing with a zillion tabs both non-incognito and incognito, so I mostly had only been it when I couldn’t get a video to play in Brave.

I am, obviously, willing to run de-Googled Chromium, but if something else is going to actually support 100+ tabs in a performance fashion I’d be happy to totally de-Chromium too.

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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have the habit of running Firefox on Android with thousands of tabs (before unloading them into a list on the desktop and cleaning them up). It does slow down somewhat, but not much.

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lemon@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been using Vivaldi (chromium-based) for about three years now. It’s customizable and has been generally solid. Also has a couple of unique tab management features. Doesn’t have builtin ad blocking afaik. But for that I use adguard desktop and route all my traffic through it, which filters out ads regardless of which browser I’m in. On iOS I can recommend Orion by kagi. It’s the only other webkit browser besides Safari, runs light, and has decent builtin ad blocking

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- Mannivu@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Vivaldi does have a built in adblocker but it’s not the best yet.
  
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  - Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But it does come with a free tier of proton vpn. Great if you don’t need to use a vpn too often but need one in a pinch.
    
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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Firefox (and its forks) have an integrated profile manager, though it’s not always intuitive to figure out how to get to it. LibreWolf is the fork I seem to always go back to, and it has zero slop.

I use containers. Right-click on the new tab button and pick a container to open the tab in. There’s also an add-on that will do this automatically for you when you visit a specific website, so if you want every site to live in its own container, you can do that too.

Personally I just use its built-in cross-site cookie blocking, but multiple ways to do the same thing.

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- pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  LibreWolf looks promising. No mobile app, but they recommend IronFox for that, so I just downloaded that to play with. Thanks!
  
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  - KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    LibreWolf
    
    I had soooo many issues with LibreWolf, finally switched to waterfox. If this doesnt pan out, I quit the interweebs
    
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    pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I hope WaterFox pans out for you! Do you mind sharing the issues you had with LibreWolf?
    
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rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I use Vivaldi as a secondary browser, it’s not been too bad. Firefox is my primary, but I might go to a fork soon.

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pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Currently trying mobile IronFox. I’m liking the privacy options and how stuff like unlock origin is literally included in the setup process. Their dark mode is nice and they offer a lot of compatibility options.

Two biggest downsides I’m seeing so far (I’ll see about keeping this updated as I go):

Can’t seem to figure out how to import my bookmarks from Brave, and I have looked extensively.

No tab groups (not the end of the world, but it was a nice feature)

Clears your browser history by default on close, which may be undesired behavior. (I personally tend to use incognito for most things and then transfer sites over to tabs in non-incognito (cognito?) modes if I want them available regularly, so for me this was undesired.)
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