Thank you for the information! I remember using Firefox as my main browser when I was younger, but then Chrome got around and everyone was so excited about it that we switched. Recently I have been using Safari due to the Apple ecosystem in which I find myself. Would you recommend sticking to it or is it also a bad choice?
Safari is actually a quite solid option too. Apple was one of the first to declare war on third-party cookies and have added lots of privacy settings by default to stop for example fingerprinting based on your configuration etc. For each new update lately of iOS/macOS they are adding new good features to it as well.
If we also weigh in "what rendering engine does my browser use?" as a factor, Safari (with WebKit) and Firefox (with Gecko/Quantum) are the only "big" browsers that are not using Blink/Chromium as their rendering engine. Most of the other browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave etc) do. Diversity is both good and healthy IMHO, whereas monopolies are bad, especially for the end users. If Google, the largest contributors to Blink, get to call all the shots on how the web works I don't see that leading to anything good.
I'm most often on a Mac too, and also use iPhone/iPad, and I have reinforced my privacy by getting the app/software Better (https://better.fyi/) which is great.
Otherwise, one of the best Firefox features to me comes from the Multi-Account Containers add-on described in the article above, and which is a thing I miss in all the other browser alternatives when I use them.
Mathias, thank you so much for the recommended content blocker! I am so lucky, because I mostly use an iPad and iPhone as daily devices, and for $2.. it is basically less than a coffee and I am sure it will make the entire experience better!
You are right when it comes down to holding power over the web. I have been conducting some research recently on proprietary software, mostly on how games which were created by hackers with a very strong ethical stance in mind became those heavily corporatized products. I think we can trace that back to putting computers into very tight boxes which didn’t allow hackers that much access and also the Letter to Hobbyists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists :)
Thank you for the information! I remember using Firefox as my main browser when I was younger, but then Chrome got around and everyone was so excited about it that we switched. Recently I have been using Safari due to the Apple ecosystem in which I find myself. Would you recommend sticking to it or is it also a bad choice?
Safari is actually a quite solid option too. Apple was one of the first to declare war on third-party cookies and have added lots of privacy settings by default to stop for example fingerprinting based on your configuration etc. For each new update lately of iOS/macOS they are adding new good features to it as well.
If we also weigh in "what rendering engine does my browser use?" as a factor, Safari (with WebKit) and Firefox (with Gecko/Quantum) are the only "big" browsers that are not using Blink/Chromium as their rendering engine. Most of the other browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave etc) do. Diversity is both good and healthy IMHO, whereas monopolies are bad, especially for the end users. If Google, the largest contributors to Blink, get to call all the shots on how the web works I don't see that leading to anything good.
I'm most often on a Mac too, and also use iPhone/iPad, and I have reinforced my privacy by getting the app/software Better (https://better.fyi/) which is great.
Otherwise, one of the best Firefox features to me comes from the Multi-Account Containers add-on described in the article above, and which is a thing I miss in all the other browser alternatives when I use them.
Mathias, thank you so much for the recommended content blocker! I am so lucky, because I mostly use an iPad and iPhone as daily devices, and for $2.. it is basically less than a coffee and I am sure it will make the entire experience better!
You are right when it comes down to holding power over the web. I have been conducting some research recently on proprietary software, mostly on how games which were created by hackers with a very strong ethical stance in mind became those heavily corporatized products. I think we can trace that back to putting computers into very tight boxes which didn’t allow hackers that much access and also the Letter to Hobbyists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists :)
Hope to keep the conversation going!