Hey Lemmy, what browser do you use and why?
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Vivaldi
- I love the UI and its customizability
- They are active participants in the Fediverse (@[email protected]) and they even have their own Mastodon instance for users (Vivaldi.social)
- Based in Europe
- Most importantly, they reject the crypto and AI hype trains
My backup is Firefox but I have also been trying out Librewolf.
Zen Browser keeps me from going back to Vivaldi (I do love Vivaldi, don't get me wrong). They added the best of Vivaldi to Firefox. Workspaces, essential tabs, tiled tab windows, and side toolbars. There's a mod that reorganizes the theming to work with Firefox themes, but you can also right click the tab bar and pick any color under the sun, even multicolor gradients (I think up to 5 colors).
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If you want to have one streaming service to rule them all, that'd be Stremio. I don't know how specific I want to get in this community, but there's ways of turning it into a torrent streamer. I pay $3.75 a month for it using debrid and have access to everything, even obscure movies. However, I always seed what I watch to at least 5x.
Stremio has an app for Android, Samsung TV, Windows, and Linux. I think mac and iOS, too, but I don't run those at all so I'm not sure. You can use catalog plugins to mimic Netflix, Hulu, etc. But you can also use it with your Netflix, Prime and other such streaming accounts.
Edit: Also, with debrid, you don't need a VPN. It does all the anonymity for you. That's the only thing that you have to pay for.
I have usenet and a fully automated system for movies (radarr) and for series (sonarr) running 24/7 on my NAS. I pay 7 per month and twice 25 euros per year for indexers. Every movie and series I add is automatically downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed, moved to the right folder. All series are stored in the folder "Series" under its own subfolder, with in it subfolders for the seasons. Each episode is named as "[series name] S01E01 [episode name]". Whenever a new episode airs, it is immedialty downloaded. As soon as I open Kodi I see what's new and in sonarr and radarr are calenders as well. I decide the quality I want. I can download subtitles in kodi through opensubtitles.
I have a 32TB NAS and I'm going to host my own free streaming service for close friends as soon as they finally install a fiberglass connection in my street (planned for 2 years now). My current upload speed sucks, so now people can only download single episodes every time. But 1gb/s upload with fiberglass connection would do the trick.
Because I pay for usenet I pay for privacy rights and I dont upload. So I everything I do which is illegal is downloading but that info isn't shared due to privacy. Next to that downloading isn't punished in my country. Uploaders are being hunted, and downloading with torrents also uploads to others. Next to that, many torrent streamers are cloned and contain malware, crypto miners, ads, other junk. I don't trust torrents anymore, there's so much harmful junk spread through torrents these days. The usenet indexers I use are all closed communities so all trusted data. I'm also a member of some closed torrent communities but I rarely use them. Only for video games, as triple A game devs create expensive but boring bug simulators so they don't deserve my money. But I still want to check it out sometimes, then to be disappointed after 2-3h as expected. I'd rather give my money to decent indie devs.
So legally I'm safe, I can watch anything I like and all I have to do for it is add it to my list, choose quality profile and what to download: everything, latest season, only future episodes, etc. I'm never switching to anything else anymore. I did when Netflix came, but now since everything is so fragmented, this is heaven so I dusted off my old pirate hat.
Whats also funny, because I don't have a streaming service, I never agreed to their user agreements, so as a pirate I have more rights (and freedom, better quality, no ads, more choice, no junk clutter) than a paying customer.
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I have usenet and a fully automated system for movies (radarr) and for series (sonarr) running 24/7 on my NAS. I pay 7 per month and twice 25 euros per year for indexers. Every movie and series I add is automatically downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed, moved to the right folder. All series are stored in the folder "Series" under its own subfolder, with in it subfolders for the seasons. Each episode is named as "[series name] S01E01 [episode name]". Whenever a new episode airs, it is immedialty downloaded. As soon as I open Kodi I see what's new and in sonarr and radarr are calenders as well. I decide the quality I want. I can download subtitles in kodi through opensubtitles.
I have a 32TB NAS and I'm going to host my own free streaming service for close friends as soon as they finally install a fiberglass connection in my street (planned for 2 years now). My current upload speed sucks, so now people can only download single episodes every time. But 1gb/s upload with fiberglass connection would do the trick.
Because I pay for usenet I pay for privacy rights and I dont upload. So I everything I do which is illegal is downloading but that info isn't shared due to privacy. Next to that downloading isn't punished in my country. Uploaders are being hunted, and downloading with torrents also uploads to others. Next to that, many torrent streamers are cloned and contain malware, crypto miners, ads, other junk. I don't trust torrents anymore, there's so much harmful junk spread through torrents these days. The usenet indexers I use are all closed communities so all trusted data. I'm also a member of some closed torrent communities but I rarely use them. Only for video games, as triple A game devs create expensive but boring bug simulators so they don't deserve my money. But I still want to check it out sometimes, then to be disappointed after 2-3h as expected. I'd rather give my money to decent indie devs.
So legally I'm safe, I can watch anything I like and all I have to do for it is add it to my list, choose quality profile and what to download: everything, latest season, only future episodes, etc. I'm never switching to anything else anymore. I did when Netflix came, but now since everything is so fragmented, this is heaven so I dusted off my old pirate hat.
Whats also funny, because I don't have a streaming service, I never agreed to their user agreements, so as a pirate I have more rights (and freedom, better quality, no ads, more choice, no junk clutter) than a paying customer.
That's why I don't have any subscription services as well (aside from VPN and Debrid). I'm now less legally bound than those who use "legal" services (if you count extortion as legal).
Ngl, I'm going to bookmark this reply and see if I can get something similar set up. However, I will still have to look around for when communities open registration. The closest thing I was in back in the day was Demonoid when it first launched. I got in early through a friend who was a trusted member. Yes, it was torrents, but it was a completely private torrent economy.
That being said, torrents are still a security risk. I've just been using them for so long that I know the right channels and uploaders to go through in the public scene. I haven't had a single malicious file fot my last 8 years on Windows. Now that I'm on Linux, the risk is a bit less. There's still risk, but not as bad.
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That's why I don't have any subscription services as well (aside from VPN and Debrid). I'm now less legally bound than those who use "legal" services (if you count extortion as legal).
Ngl, I'm going to bookmark this reply and see if I can get something similar set up. However, I will still have to look around for when communities open registration. The closest thing I was in back in the day was Demonoid when it first launched. I got in early through a friend who was a trusted member. Yes, it was torrents, but it was a completely private torrent economy.
That being said, torrents are still a security risk. I've just been using them for so long that I know the right channels and uploaders to go through in the public scene. I haven't had a single malicious file fot my last 8 years on Windows. Now that I'm on Linux, the risk is a bit less. There's still risk, but not as bad.
Send me a dm if you want, I can maybe help finding the right stuff, set it up, maybe have an invite here or there, go e advice. It was a lot of work, but with the help of a friend I fixed it all. If I can help someone else, I happily do
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lmao Fair enough. Have you tried the Orion Browser yet? I was curious about it.
I actually used Orion Browser I thought it was fantastic but I quickly got some weird bugs and had to go back to using safari. My Go to browsers and Zen, Vivaldi and Safari (because of how power efficient it is on my MacBook).
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I actually used Orion Browser I thought it was fantastic but I quickly got some weird bugs and had to go back to using safari. My Go to browsers and Zen, Vivaldi and Safari (because of how power efficient it is on my MacBook).
There's nothing wrong with Safari at all. I have my irks with Apple tech, but honestly they're probably one of the safer big corporations imo. I do love Airpods, though. I have a pair of Max and I can't get by with any other headphones now, lol. I just can't get used to mac and iOS, especially since I love open source android apps.
Makes sense about Orion. Its still brand new. Zen and Vivaldi are two of my absolute favorites, as well. I just switched back to Zen. I felt that Zen was weirdly more sluggish than Floorp for some reason. I mulled on it a bit and figured it out.
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_yis set to 300 in Floorp and 200 in Zen. I set it to 300 and it feels so much better. -
There's nothing wrong with Safari at all. I have my irks with Apple tech, but honestly they're probably one of the safer big corporations imo. I do love Airpods, though. I have a pair of Max and I can't get by with any other headphones now, lol. I just can't get used to mac and iOS, especially since I love open source android apps.
Makes sense about Orion. Its still brand new. Zen and Vivaldi are two of my absolute favorites, as well. I just switched back to Zen. I felt that Zen was weirdly more sluggish than Floorp for some reason. I mulled on it a bit and figured it out.
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_yis set to 300 in Floorp and 200 in Zen. I set it to 300 and it feels so much better.wrote on last edited by [email protected]Safari is my daily driver but I also have Firefox and edge installed for other things. I was just anticipating getting shit on for actually liking safari.
Firefox is fast and useful for stubborn web pages that just refuse to cooperate. Edge is great for when I need a chromium browser for something since I refuse to install chrome on my hardware. Sometimes I need webserial and that’s just not going to happen in safari. Firefox is good for quick dives into I2P and other funkiness I want to play around with.
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Safari is my daily driver but I also have Firefox and edge installed for other things. I was just anticipating getting shit on for actually liking safari.
Firefox is fast and useful for stubborn web pages that just refuse to cooperate. Edge is great for when I need a chromium browser for something since I refuse to install chrome on my hardware. Sometimes I need webserial and that’s just not going to happen in safari. Firefox is good for quick dives into I2P and other funkiness I want to play around with.
I usually try to opt for Vivaldi for anything I need for Chromium. I know Microsoft too well at this point (since Windows 3.14). Like, Swiftkey is my favorite android keyboard and I forced myself to learn how to use Thumbkey. That's how much I just can't trust them anymore.
I only use Chrome if I'm going to be doing web development. That being said, I have heard decent things about Edge's performance lately. I could have dealt with MS shoving AI down my throat, but pics of my screen and ads in my start bar was the last straw.
Too bad I enjoy Github and Minecraft... otherwise I'd avoid their software altogether.
I actually trust Apple's security. They make bank on high end devices for high prices, enough where they don't need to rely on collecting and selling user data. Iirc, the only thing that really collects your data is Apple Music and Apple TV, but every paid sub streaming platform does that.
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I usually try to opt for Vivaldi for anything I need for Chromium. I know Microsoft too well at this point (since Windows 3.14). Like, Swiftkey is my favorite android keyboard and I forced myself to learn how to use Thumbkey. That's how much I just can't trust them anymore.
I only use Chrome if I'm going to be doing web development. That being said, I have heard decent things about Edge's performance lately. I could have dealt with MS shoving AI down my throat, but pics of my screen and ads in my start bar was the last straw.
Too bad I enjoy Github and Minecraft... otherwise I'd avoid their software altogether.
I actually trust Apple's security. They make bank on high end devices for high prices, enough where they don't need to rely on collecting and selling user data. Iirc, the only thing that really collects your data is Apple Music and Apple TV, but every paid sub streaming platform does that.
Dont even get me started on software keyboards. Microsoft used to make one called word flow that I absolutely loved and they killed it. I cant handle big phones without it so I went back to smaller phones once it died.
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I checked out DuckDuckGo Browser a bit. The mobile version is definitely more polished than the desktop version. At least you can use the DuckPlayer to watch YouTube without ads. The main thing for me is that I need a browser that forces dark mode on sites and the last I checked the DDG Desktop browser doesn't have it, even though the mobile one does.
Latest mobile update sadly made Duck way much worse. Everything is slow af and automated opt out from cookies doesn’t work.
