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I thought it would be helpful for all the good people of Lemmy World if we shared our browser setups.

I'm mostly a laptop user when it comes to the Internet. I've been using Firefox with the Ublock Origin addon and it makes browsing the web so much less ad filled.

For youtube specifically I've had the best results with Chrome and an extension called Clear Skies for ad skipping.

Share you own browser setup. What do you use to surf the wild waves of the web to avoid the sharks and the sharp rocks?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Instead of forget everything I recommend to keep session and create cookie exceptions for selected sites. So you will stay logged in there and have a normally working browser, that is just as private

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good advice, but for how i have my workflow set up, it makes more sense for me to have it set on full amnesia. Vivaldi is what i use if i need persistence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can use profiles if you want different use cases. I dont think "increased attack surface" is the biggest problem, but you have 2 browsers that are both updated, take up RAM etc.

You could just use different Firefox profiles, using a custom desktop entry with actions and one action for every profile, example:

desktop entry

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox
Comment=Web Browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=firefox %u
Type=Application
Icon=firefox
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
Actions=Private;Work;PrivateWindow;Insecure

[Desktop Action Private]
Name=Open Private Profile
Exec=firefox -p private %u

[Desktop Action Work]
Name=Open Work Profile
Exec=firefox -p work %u

[Desktop Action PrivateWindow]
Name=Open Private Window
Exec=firefox -p private --private-window %u

[Desktop Action Insecure]
Name=Open Insecure Profile
Exec=mullvad-exclude firefox -p insecure %u

This was so cool to find out, and in KDE (and likely other desktops) you can access those actions using right click.

You can also change such a workflow to do

launch app && rm -rf ~/appdirectory which will enforce to always delete everything without needing to trust that app. I do that for the flatpak app "Decoder" which is great but wants to save a history without an opt-out, and as I use it for password sharing (generate a QR code locally on my phone)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's pretty neat... I'll look in to it. Than you for the info.