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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dont use Mullvad VPN, only the browser. I do use NordVPN when I need to show as being in another country, but mostly to circumvent geolocation and keep some stuff from my ISP. I know commercial VPNs are just switching who sees your data, but I'm good having a company that's not my ISP and in my country looking at that. And yes, I distrust Google to no end. The same applies to Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, etc. There are not many names out there I trust. At the end of the day, anything not under your control, you need to choose how much you trust it, if at all.

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

I know commercial VPNs are just switching who sees your data,

Oh yeah.

And yes, I distrust Google to no end.

Me too, the reason why I use ungoogled-chromium is mostly because of that and because when you take Chrome and remove all the tracking and spyware it runs way faster ahah. There are many people and projects that came together in the ungoogled-chromium community and the source code is scrutinized and cleaned up like nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We're lucky that there are so many nice developers out there just providing these tools for the community to break the ropes that tie us to big tech. Those devs are the real heroes in my book.