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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (73 children)

Ok. Chrome sucks. Brave sucks. What’s good. Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm team Firefox, very happy here. There's a small amount of optional telemetry to disable to maximise your privacy, and it has the best plugins because there's a lot of choice and they're not purposely crippled.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I like Firefox because it allows, Atleast for now, customization via userchrome.css files. I once tried Edge and hated it's bloated right click context menu. Meanwhile, in Firefox, I can trim down the context menu to only basic elements.

I do wish Firefox had proper PWA support, but otherwise I have been using it as the main browser on both PC and phone(since uBlock Origin is supported on it, the only Chromium browser to support it is Kiwi Browser on Android).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's probably an addon for Firefox that gives some PWA support

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There does exists one. But when I last tried it, the experience was worse than what a native integration would give. It wasn't streamlined as in other browsers. It doesn't matter much since I only use YouTube Music as a PWA, which I have a relegated to another window in another browser.

Off topic, but screw you Google, for not giving a native app. Spotify meanwhile has command line third party clients even(looks at ncspot) for Premium users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Check out this custom YouTube Music desktop client: https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music. It has neat features like an adblocker and a download feature and many more things built-in and it's open source. It's available for Windows, macOS and Linux.