I really like the Librewolf browser and DuckDuckGo search engine and mobile browser. The Iceraven browser on mobile is also quite nice.

  • SudoDnfDashY
    11·
    3 years ago

    Hardened Firefox + Searx, along with Noscript, Ublock Origin, and cookie autodelete. Mobile is the same thing but with Mobile Firefox.

    • dstep
      62·
      3 years ago

      Librewolf is actually better, no need to manually make firefox better (or other firefox fork).

      • SudoDnfDashY
        8·
        3 years ago

        It takes like 5 minutes to harden Firefox and 30 minutes to build librewolf from source.

            • beta_tester
              1·
              3 years ago

              I don’t know if someone should use it. I am not saying the recommendations are bad but e.g. this one

              On the same page, UNCHECK EVERYTHING under Firefox Data Collection and Use.

              Why? Why do I need to uncheck everything? Another paragraph tells me to disable password saving. Why? A quick sentence why it’s bad to do this or that wouldn’t have hurt.

              I save my wikipedia password in the browser, why? Because I don’t care about it. If someone wants to login with my credentials, go ahead. And not having to open bitwarden just for that is really good for convenience. Not everything needs to be protected as hell.

        • Sr Estegosaurio
          3·
          3 years ago

          I use Gentoo, I already build everything lol. But yeah it’s true that it takes no time to use a custom user.js

    • beta_tester
      8·
      3 years ago

      I wish qwant wouldn’t have so many problems. It could be a really good search engine

      • testingthis
        3·
        3 years ago

        Yeah, there was something quirky with lite.qwant.com results that made it unusable… Will want to check on it again soon

        • beta_tester
          3·
          3 years ago

          Not only that

          • springer holds a share of qwant and springer is a rubbish company.
          • qwant on mobile shows you the mobile sites of the search results instead of the “real” website. I think that’s a tiny but important difference.
          • qwant doesn’t show you the protocol, i.e. http, ftp, etc. And hides SSL encryption of sites on mobile.
          • qwant hides the subfolder structure of the site you are about to enter on mobile.
          • qwant forces you to choose a country and only serves higher income countries. Qwant shows you different results in different countries. It’s not just an english or french web, it’s a canadian french, french french web, etc.
  • 0xCAFe@feddit.de
    92·
    3 years ago

    Firefox is my brower for years. The latest and ongoing fuckeries from Mozilla make me mad, so I’ll probably switch to Librewolf. I have Chromium-based browser for compatibility reasons (mainly video conferences, Youtube sometimes). I won’t use any Chromium as my main browser because I care about diversity and don’t want an effectivly Google-controlled application.

    For search I recommend DuckDuckGo or Brave. Personally I use a recently setup private Searx instance and I’m quite happy with it.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.de
      7·
      3 years ago

      Why switch? Mozilla has always been dumb and a little bit sketchy, doesn’t mean that FF isn’t awesome

      • Sr Estegosaurio
        6·
        3 years ago

        You can just switch to a fork (wich is basically the same as having a custom user.js)

      • 0xCAFe@feddit.de
        2·
        3 years ago

        Firefox is awesome. However with Librewolf I didn’t have to change one single setting, because the default are so good. It even comes with uBlock Origin installed.

  • Seirdy
    7·
    3 years ago

    I compiled a list of search engines that use their own indexes for organic results: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html

    I’ll probably post a big update to that article at some point that compares if/how some of the listed engines process structured data (RDFa, microdata, JSON-LD, microformats 1/2, open graph metadata, POSH).

    I typically use a Searx/SearxNG instance that mixes Google, Bing, and Bing-derivatives (e.g. DDG) with other indexes: Petal, Mojeek, Gigablast, and Qwant (Qwant mixes its own results with Bing’s). Petal, Gigablast, and Mojeek have been quite helpful for discovering new content; however, I wouldn’t use Petal directly due to privacy concerns. Using it through a Searx proxy you trust more seems alright.

    If I know a query will give me an instant answer I want to use, I’ll use DDG.

  • Milliways
    6·
    3 years ago

    duckduckgo and firefox with arkenfox’s user.js and ublock origin. works really well

  • fdj
    4·
    3 years ago

    Mull (browser) and Presearch (search engine).

  • Peter Kotrčka@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    3 years ago

    Firefox (with a few “privacy” plugins) on my desktop, Privacy Browser and Firefox on my phone. As for search engines: Qwant, Metager, Mojeek.

  • rhymepurple
    4·
    3 years ago

    I don’t see Whoogle posted. If you really need/want to use Google search for whatever reason, Whoogle is a great alternative. I’m not sure why it’s not more heavily discussed on places like PrivacyGuides, PrivacyTools, etc.

    • substantial_kek
      2·
      3 years ago

      Cool thing about Whoogle is that you can deploy it in one click on free service like Heroku. That’s a big plus compared to other self hosting solutions like SearX where you need extensive technical knowledge to deploy.