Can’t believe people always use this crypto-spam browser.
Same, I was surprised brave is so popular.
I use it for school shit because they don’t work with iceraven(my preferred mobile Firefox fork)
Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary “features” on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)
Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.
I’m just speaking on the two most popular browsers according to the survey - LibreWolf is in a league of its own for sure.
Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.
So does Librewolf. What’s the benefit of brave? Chrome-based? Checked chromium from time to time and don’t think chrome is superior over Firefox.
Neither do I. I use Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox.
Brave has its own content blocking system, which is on-par with uBO and better than uBO Lite. I tested it myself a while back, and Cover Your Tracks, Fingerprint.com, and CreepJS indicated that it was incredibly difficult to fingerprint: moreso than Librewolf, but slightly less so than Tor/Mullvad.
That said, however, PrivacyTests.org indicates that Librewolf blocks more tracking technologies than Brave, so it’s possible things have changed since I last experimented with browsers other than Tor and Mullvad.
WebHID support which some webapp configuration tools need to function
Chromium is generally more secure than firefox.
Removed by mod
Surprised privacy conscious people are so pro obsidian when it’s not even source available
It keeps my data in plain text files, integrates well with git and simply does the most things I always wanted a note taking application to do, when compared with anything else I have tried so far.
Yes, I would be happier with an open source application, but the first two are hard requirements for me, which already removes the majority of the alternatives.
On the other hand, I will never understand why anyone would use brave, given how shady the thing is.
what about logseq? It’s very similar, but open source
Probably because it is all portable and in markdown, the devs are widely available and it is open enough that community, open source plugins can be easily made which allow you to make custom workflows that simply aren’t available in any alternatives.
Linking is significantly easier and better than any alternative I have tried which significantly lowers the effort of documentation which is the largest hurdle for most people. As all social media shit apps have taught us, ultra low-effort beginning of a habit is the key to consistent use.
And if the dev enshittifies, all of your notes are safe in plaintext markdown and not a proprietary format and can be imported and cleaned up in your choice of new editor and fix the linking.
How can Thunderbird be the third favourite Email service, when it’s not even an email service? It’s a mail user agent.
Or do they mean the Thundermail service available in the Thunderbird Pro Subscription?
thunderbird has a mail service now, but I find it weird because it’s still a pretty new service
Why is Thunderbird listed with proton mail, tuta and fastmail?
They are a provider as well as a client now.
Interesting. So you can actually create a Thunderbird email address?
not yet https://www.tb.pro/en-US/
Do you think the statistics are representative of the overall userbase? To me, this suggests recency bias (or maybe people who misunderstood the question, because it made me do a double-take too). Either way, Thunderbird using its established branding and reputation is a great move.
I think Firefox’s usage is more, Proton Mail is less, Addy.io is more, DuckDuckGo Email Alias is less, DuckDuckGo search usage is more, Matrix is more (btw Matrix is not app :D), Bitwarden is less, Obsidian is more (unfortunately it’s closed-source), uBO is more, Windscribe is more, AI usage is more
Matrix is the protocol. Element is the client and just one of many.
I’m considering swapping from Proton Mail to Fastmail. The fact that it allows 3-year subscriptions is good (I’d prefer a lifetime plan but I understand why that’s a non-starter), the fact that it’s based local to me is good too.
EDIT: I wish it also at least offered a rolling 3-year subscription.
Do you need an account to use Proton VPN?
If you download it from the FDroid store, yes. If you download it from the Google Play Store, no.
(I just tested this to make sure, because I know it sounds weird.)
so either way is Mullvad VPN much more privacy focused, because there you just generate a random number and to this number you deposit money, no need for any credentials.
ok so if you do it through google play it uses your google account I assume with like something like saml.
why Proton??
You do not
I was asking because I used Mullvad in the past and I love the fact that not even they know who you are because to them you are just a random generated number, which occasionally gets 5€ deposited.
You can use a free or paid account but some time last year (I think) they also made it so you can use it without even logging in (on android at least)
Yes but it is free (email address) with an acces to 5 countries (Netherlands, Romania, Japan and 2 others i never used). To extend it worldwide you have to subscribe to a premium account.
You know I just remembered that no one actually confirmed whether DuckDuckGo wasn’t just a honeypot for the NSA because it didn’t become big until after thr Snowden leaks lol.
well I still don’t get how are they legitimately funding their services, even before they started running their free AI chat proxy.
