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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fine. Websites break on it less often than I would have expected and the “nuke your cookies and history" button is a fun feature. I've mostly moved to Firefox, though, just to get away from Chromium (although I realize the irony in that; my fingerprint is almost assuredly far more unique than if I stuck to Chromium).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can always spoof your browser agent. It breaks only a few websites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you do this on ddg app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If they support some kind of extensions that should do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it's not bad but firefox focus is better imo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never heard of it, what is it based on?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only way I've used duckduckgo browser is for tracking protection feature and to get anti tracking email address. For internet browsing I prefer Mull

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I like the browser. It never seems to break anything. My father uses it also. However, I must use Firefox with its built in Enhanced Tracking Protection in strict mode specifically to prevent Chrome domination.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is a good browser, but wouldnt get my location on degoogled lineage so i went to fennec. I submitted an issue to the ddg github about it and the response (after 3 months) was to brush me off because it worked fine with play services. Not encouraging for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's the only browser I use. I like it because the only links I open are if I click a news article or something on social, and it auto-nukes history and cookies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it's pretty good! I wish it had support for PWAs though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like it. I tend to use it more than Firefox recently. It seems to load most sites faster.
Not having a bunch of tabs remain open all the time is great. FF refuses to close them no matter what setting I use, and I always forget about them so it'll have like ten tabs in the background for no reason.
I also dgaf about what I searched for or where I went previously, so not having a history is great.

FF is mainly my YouTube app.