Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services.

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[–]EvilNick 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Cancel prime and use other browsers and web search engines

[–]enefi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

But which browser? It's either Firefox (which has major issues too) or some Chrome-based browser like Brave or Dissenter. You would still be supporting Google or Mozilla.

Well, that is unless you want to go with some slow and incomplete "alternative" (majority of people use sites heavy on JS with new CSS), I don't see much of a choice.

[–]EvilNick 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

dissenter is based off chromium, which is just a free open source framework. It doesnt mean its based off chrome and youre not actually supporting chrome or google since its not harvesting your data, especially when you bundle that with a different search engine, but I think you might already know this. dissenter browser also comes with the plugin built in for free and open commenting. Everyone here should be using it.

[–]enefi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

dissenter is based off chromium, which is just a free open source framework. It doesnt mean its based off chrome

Yep, it's based on open-source parts of Chrome (= Chromium). I am not that familiar with Chrome-based browsers, but I was under the impression they follow Chrome very closely (each release is based on Chromium and they add [reapply] their custom parts).

youre not actually supporting chrome or google since its not harvesting your data

That's true, but you are still supporting Google indirectly (and I admit to a lesser degree than running vanilla Chrome) - you are using a browser with Google's core, you are using their rendering and JS engine (and probably more) thus maintaining their grasp of market share. This is giving Google more power over the internet (dictating standards [like trashing new svg], aggressively pushing their new tech [like their spying amp or DRMs]).

So yes, running an alt. Chromium browser is slightly better than running Chrome, but it's incomparable to an ideal scenario of having one or more fully open-source browsers (each with their own code) whose owners/maintainers don't try to limit/censor users' of these browsers and operate in the spirit of open-source.

[–]EvilNick 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

based off chromium really means nothing. its simply a basic architecture to build off. Its like the same guy coming in and pouring an entire neighborhoods foundations then leaving for different builders to finish the houses on top. Things based of unix/linux are all extremely different even though built off the same platform. ASOP is based off android but VERY different. Most people use it to remove a lot of the harvesting feature in android to root/ROM your phones.

youre also not supporting google indirectly. google entire business model is from harvesting. I wont lie I still use my gmail and google voice. If you are using anything other than chrome and google search there is usually no harvesting.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Good discussion here guys. How about this one, it's Chromium but with a bit of extra effort to really stick it to big G: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

[–]EvilNick 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ill check it out. I do like dissenter tho. I love the comment plugin