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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of that list, Zen is the only one really worth considering. And then you have the “but the best one that supports widevine” issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Zen is also being developed by an asshole who doesn't even understand the code he's working on, by his own admission. I wonder if he's fixed the backdoor he added to it yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Firefox is still great, and Tor Browser is fantastic.

I'm personally checking out Mullvad Browser.

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

Tor is good for onion sites, but do people use it for general web browsing? Wouldn't it be super slow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, and you should too because more "natural" traffic helps protect people who need it (journalists, political dissidents, etc). For mostly text content, it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, if you want to wait 3 minutes for your all-text site to load.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

It's not that bad, it's a handful of seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yes basically unusable in my experience.