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This really is a weird decision! And a closed source Browser, too. There was money involved in that decision, i guarantee it.

Now talking about browsers since firefox's market share seems directly corrlated to the inverse of their CEOs paycheck, what GOOD options are still out there?

* Chrome - Spyware

* Chromium variations of all kind - Spyware with some mitigations

* Midora, Konquerror, other weird browsers etc. - hopelessly never going to be feature complete enough to be useful

* Firefox - Now with spyware AND woke politics!

* Firefox based privacy remixes like libewolf - current best choice for privacy and reasonable website compatibility.

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>what GOOD options are still out there?

You know, that's a good question given the threat exposure in a browser.

Maybe the right answer is a mixture. Use a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions/bill paying/banking (high security, low privacy from Google) and something akin to a text-based browser on an open source OS for everything else.

Is there something like Lynx but with a bit of formatting + still images? I can see going that route simply because the sheer size (in LOC) of a modern browser is so great that I question it's trustability.

> Maybe the right answer is a mixture. Use a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions/bill paying/banking (high security, low privacy from Google) and something akin to a text-based browser on an open source OS for everything else.

The part about the chromebook is actually good advice, given the good security hardening of chromebooks from the moment they boot.

> Is there something like Lynx but with a bit of formatting + still images?

Sounds like dillo[0]. eww[1] is also fun, but written in emacs and probably not that trustable for this reason.

[0]: https://www.dillo.org/ [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html

What spyware is present in Firefox?

Default behaviour to send back data to mozilla and run studies WHICH THEY ALREADY ABUSED BEFORE https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-touting-mozilla-caught...

edit downvote me to oblivion if you must. I too weep for the mozilla of the olden days. The inarguably good guys winnning their fight david vs goliath style against the evil Mircosoft empire. Sadly, those games are gone.

Safe browsing sends data to google.

No it doesn't. It downloads a list routinely and checks requests against it locally. Firefox takes it even further and proxies that request so it appears to be coming from them.

It would be extremely wasteful and privacy-invasive if they issued a query to Safe Browsing for every request.

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