- consolidating blogs whose specific topic would meld in fun, interesting ways.
or
- giving up on content curator and moderator goals & allowing my older self to integrate with my younger self and mix together whatever the fuck posts i want here
Firefox remains best in show in the category of “browsers that won’t do this bullshit.” It’s got a long, long history of trust, a sizable userbase, and a decent amount of privacy built in, with more extensions and customization options than you’ll ever need. However, note that it can sometimes perform slowly, especially with a lot of tabs open.
Opera is a slightly lesser-known browser, and my personal main browser for day-to-day use. It has a built-in VPN (though this can be slow at times), adblocker, and anti-tracking tools, with more available via extensions. Opera’s userbase is slightly smaller, so overall less extensions are available than Firefox, and (in my experience) it generally needs a few settings to be tweaked on first startup to make it comfortable to use (notably, the keyboard shortcuts are different from chrome/firefox).
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that also has (at least) a mobile browser (for Android devices). I’m not honestly sure if they have a desktop or Apple version, but the mobile browser provides many similar safety features to Opera. I find Opera more convenient for casual browsing, but if you’re very conscious of online security, DuckDuckGo might be the way to go.
Microsoft Edge exists. Don’t use it.
Please do yourself a favor and stop using Chrome!
Ecosia isn’t Chrome based, right? that’s what ive been using, for the trees, and it says it doesn’t save your history but i wanted to check
I’m afraid so. And based on many other Chrome based browser scandals, I don’t trust it.
dammit. ill download firefox then :/ thanks for letting me know
edit: how do you actually download it
edit edit: wHY does it send me to GOOGLE, IMMEDIATELY upon downloading it????? like i have the app and it says “firefox browser” and it’s talking all about how secure it is etc but the little rainbow G icon is right next to the actual browser and theres a link right to Google on the firefox homepage how do i stop that
So from my understanding Firefox uses Google but it blocks all the trackers
that makes sense! ty!! i ended up changing the default browser to duckduckgo anyway (and deleted google and amazon off of the browser options anyway) but i appreciate it!!! (im afraid this all becomes null and void with me using only gmail as all of my email accs but there’s not much i can really do anything about that. hopefully firefox will block gmail from seeing my searches through the gmail account i used to sign in :///)
I’d recommend Protonmail,
as a substitute for gmail. It’s a Swiss based end-to-end encrypted
email service that is expanding to Proton-calander and Proton-drive with
their paid version. Their ProtonVPN also has a free version with limited locations. They also have apps for both android and apple.
Facebook Container-
isolates your Facebook
activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook
from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party
cookies.
HTTPS Everywhere- Many sites on the web
offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it
difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or
fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.
Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead
of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically
discovers trackers based on their behavior.
Privacy Possum monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by
reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies.
uBlock Origin is not an “ad blocker”, it’s a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you carve out a
separate box for each of your online lives – no more opening a different
browser just to check your work email! Here is a quick video showing
you how it works. Under the hood, it separates website storage
into tab-specific Containers. Cookies downloaded by one Container are
not available to other Containers. With the Firefox Multi-Account
Containers extension, you can…
Sign in to two different
accounts on the same site. For example, you could sign in to work email
and home email in two different Container tabs.
Keep different
kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use
one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different
Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band)
Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example,
you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and
use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social
identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)
Enhancer for YouTube™- Built to get the most
out of YouTube, this extension comes packed with all sorts of features
that allow you, among other things, to manage ads as you wish, control
the playback speed and the volume level with the mouse wheel, automate
repetitive tasks such as selecting the appropriate playback quality,
configure dozens of keyboard shortcuts to control YouTube like a pro,
and much more.
Decentraleyes- Protects you against tracking through “free”, centralized, content delivery.
Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services.
Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin (recommended), Adblock Plus, et al.
Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.
Bitwarden- A secure and free password manager for all of your devices. Bitwarden is the easiest
and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while
conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices.
Several of these also have companion versions in Firefox mobile.
If you are interested in other trustworthy add-ons, this icon shows that the add-on is an editorially curated extension that meet the highest standards of
security, functionality, and user experience. Firefox staff, along with
community participation, selects each extension and manually reviews
them for security and policy compliance before they receive Recommended
status.
Good luck! @ or message me if you need anything else.
Edit: I’d make a firefox account so you can log in and sync tabs/bookmarks across devices.
holy shit this is insane thank you so much!!!
Long post but very useful addons. Press j to skip
Oh hey! If you want a replacment for ecosia try Tabs For a Cause/Search for a Cause! Tabs puts small ads on your new tab page, Search is an independent search engine with some sponsered results, but you can choose which pre-approved charity the money from those ads goes to! There’s a variety of causes, and they also do fund drives for current events
Self-care Sunday: Does anyone else feel like they need more concrete instructions than “just let go” of intrusive thoughts?
Hunter Clark-Fields (author of Raising Good Humans) explains that the reason labeling thoughts works to help let them go is because the process activates the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain responsible for logic, reason, and decision-making, i.e. the part of the brain that’s good at focusing and setting emotions aside. It’s been really helpful in my meditation practice to notice where my thoughts go, give them a label, and find it easier to refocus on the present.
Labeling thoughts isn’t just helpful during meditation! It’s a useful practice at any time of day when you notice unwanted thoughts cropping up. The key is in the noticing.
found a twitter tweet that was like “oh yeah content warning hatoful boyfriend has a lot of gore and violence” and every single person in the notes/retweets/qrts/whatever the fuck terms twitter has was going “WHAT THE FUCK IT HAS WHAT” and i find that hilarious because. large amounts of gore and violence is a tremendous understatement about the amount of stuff that goes down in hatoful boyfriend
my full trigger list for hatoful boyfriend (and its sequel), for anyone curious is:
war and genocide
suicide (including coerced suicide)
murder (including decapitation and dismemberment)
cannibalism
guns
terminal illness and biological weaponry
persuing monster-based horror
unreality
scientific experimentation-based horror
racism
childhood trauma and parent death
infanticide (or more accurately, bird abortion)
emotional manipulation
unhealthy/codependent relationships
death of a romantic interest
twisted morality and gray morality
general heartbreakery
just on the off chance anyone reading this doesn’t know what Hatoful Boyfriend is
I wish wizards were real so bad imagine coming out of a wal mart and seeing some guy with long robes and a big hat in the parking lot surrounded by wacky particle effects screaming some shit like “By the moon and the starlight, by the shield and the sword, I summon to me, my Honda Accord!” And then just getting into his car and driving off
