A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how removedty Chromium looks.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      If you use Edge than you probably use Windows, which means that Microsoft can already mine your data. I guess it’s better to have your data mined by only Microsoft than to have it mined by both Microsoft and Google?

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 months ago

        Not sure of this is still true, it often feels like edge is the main spyware feature of windowless in general, integrated into windows search.

        Everytime you search for an app or file it doubles as a edge search query to present in the results. You can try disable all the spyware on windows if you want. Edge still stores it in the microsoft cloud so you can sync.

        Copilot is a golden ticket for them now. Its literally an edge based application.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      4 months ago

      As opposed to your data being mined by Google or sold by Mozilla? Dude you’re cracking me up.

      • Custodian1623@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        4 months ago

        Mozilla literally doesn’t do that. If you’re concerned about them lying about it you can compile the browser yourself.

          • Custodian1623@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            14
            ·
            4 months ago

            I can packet inspect and watch them sell data? No lol they collect telemetry but you can use a derivative that doesn’t because it’s open source. That’s not the point though, the point is they don’t sell data. You can look at the finances yourself https://stateof.mozilla.org/

            • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              14
              ·
              4 months ago

              Hmm guess they’re running a charity then. Your tracking is not data? I guess you and I have different definitions of what data is. Sure, you can lock it down if you really want. But so can every other browser.

      • TotalSonic@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        Or you can use browsers that can be set to not “phone home” - e.g.Brave, Librewolf - there are in fact a few privacy respecting options in this.