Well, I’ve always been more of a proud browser agnostic, but I must confess my digital sins have often led me down the path of chrome and safari. But preach dear missionary, can Firefox truly offer redemption from the purgatory of endless updates and privacy woes?
updates, no. firefox releases updates frequently, even for pissy little shit that could have waited until a next milestone. but the rest, absolutely.
Switched from edge to Firefox recently. While edge is extremely good and the user experience is about the same, I did it in protest to Google/chromium.
Also started using duckduckgo. Was a good choice.
I switched from DuckDuckGo to SearXNG to Whoogle to LibreX and finally to Startpage, all so I don’t have to get results only from Bing
I’m using Phind. It’s presumably using Google search, but it skips all the bloat and ads, skips clicking through the links one by one, and rummaging through articles full of more ads and annoying popups. Then it summarizes everything with sources, if I ever need to go to the page directly (which I mostly don’t need to). And it supports bangs for Google and DDG, if you need to go old-school.
My issue with Phind is its developer oriented, and has been quite slow in my experience with their new model.
But like, OP, legitimately, have you joined the church of hardened Firefox yet? We can save your eternal data from marketing damnation, and unreservedly block ads.
Does using librewolf make me an evangelical Christian?
The only thing that’s stopping me from swapping fully to Firefox is finding a good password manager that will keep the passwords up-to-date between several machines.
Double points if it will let me import the passes from chrome.
Is Proton Pass worth using yet? It’s relatively new, and it kinda seems like Proton tries to juggle too many different services. I’m already paying for Proton so I might switch over from Bitwarden eventually.
It’s pretty good. The only complaint I have is the “login” field is the username or email. If you have a username that you must use to log in, there is no “email” field for that login, though I guess you could just put it in that login’s note section. That’s a very minor complaint. Otherwise it has worked flawlessly on my android and windows pc and Linux mint pc. I moved from dash lane and it’s overall smoother and more convenient than dash lane. And the UI is better.
BUT. The most important thing here. The king of features. The big one. Is the ability to instantly generate a new email address that redirects to your main proton address for use in various online accounts. If you pay for Proton that means you have unlimited of these. I am currently in the process of purging my Gmail and having a different, unique email for EVERY online account. Not a single one will have my raw, main Proton email address. These are unrelated to the contents of your main address (unlike how Gmail does the address+extra@gmail thing) so they are completely anonymous. They are also revokable at any time so if you start getting ANY spam emails at all, even a single one, you know where it came from and you can change that affected account to use a new address and simply delete the affected/leaked address.
These addresses are generated and integrated into Proton pass so it’s crazy simple to use them. The hard part is going through all your existing accounts and requesting an email change retroactively but new accounts? There’s no reason to not use a randomly generated email address. Not even my family knows my root email. Everyone gets a new one. By default, it includes the name of the site in the email address for easy identification. You can choose to customize it too, even change the domain to one of a few available.
I promise I’m not sponsored or something lmao. I just really fucking love the anonymity and control this kind of system gives you, while at the same time being super convenient.
Edit: pair this with an anonymous card service like privacy.com and you’re so fucking solid.
