The final push to start using Firefox over Chrome on Android might finally be thanks to the enormous selection of add-ons (Firefox’s version of extensions) coming out next month. Chrome doesn’t offer native support for extensions in its mobile app. Also, better security.
I just officially downloaded it and will likely soon jump ship from DuckDuckGo.
Really the biggest thing for me will be not blinding my eyes due to a lack of dark mode outside of search results. (Thanks to using the dark reader add-on in Firefox)
You’re jumping from duckduckgo? Where to & why? I ask as a fellow DDG user.
I think they meant the DDG android browser.
Oh, gotcha. Yeah, honestly mixing my browser & search engine has a bad smell to it, whether it’s google, Microsoft or DDG providing them. I don’t want to give anyone that level of end-to-end control.
yeah you’re right. The DDG Android browser has been my default up until now
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Yes, I remember hearing something about this.
I wonder if there’s a way to federate a search engine. I wonder what that would even look like. Federating indices/results but allowing users to search from whatever instance they want? Maybe?
Maybe that’s an okay use case for federation or maybe not, but clearly we need to move away from centralised search engines because they always get corrupted by greed.
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I understand your concern, this is actually why I dropped Ecosia (because they got closer to Microsoft)
It’s worth mentioning that DDG has since distanced themselves from Microsoft after the blow back, so while Ecosia got closer, DDG (AFAIK from the documentation I read) no longer has any partnerships in place. I don’t get paid either way, so it doesn’t matter to me but just FYI
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
https://spreadprivacy.com/more-privacy-and-transparency/
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Seriously, darkreader is a lifesaver for someone like me who is light sensitive.