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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by brucethemoose2 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:57PM (#37785280)
> Chrome, Edge

Gratuitous data harvesting, and Edge in particular has gotten really spammy with Microsoft promos.

> Firefox

Very slow/power hungry for me, especially with extensions which I need for dark mode, adblocking and such.

> DuckDuckGo

Probably good?

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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by Synaesthesia on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:17PM (#37785435)
Firefox on Android is great IMO, fast, not power hungry and the extensions/features are awesome. I love not being bothered by ads, even on YouTube, and having videos play in the background.
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by Firmwarrior on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:49PM (#37785675)
Firefox for Android guzzles power like crazy, even slightly more than Chrome

You probably come out ahead if you load it up with a real adblocker though

Being able to browse with uBlock and Privacy Badger is a game changer for me. I basically don't use my mobile browser at all on iOS, and I don't use any social media or news apps either, so you can guess how useful the device is.. haha

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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by brucethemoose2 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:12PM (#37785830)
Cromite with its native adblock and darkmode is, for me, the bee's knees.

I am on an older Android phone though. If it ain't broke...

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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by bad_user on Friday October 06, 2023 @01:41AM (#37787438)
Bromite's ad-blocking is very basic, the worst of the bunch. But it's a decent choice nonetheless.
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