• Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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    11 months ago

    Just wanted to mention that Firefox and Mull for Android allow you to do that. They are also much better than Chrome or any Chromium based browser, as they allow proper adblockers and they don’t support Google’s monopoly on the browser rendering engines which is just bad for the open internet in general. Mull also significantly improves your privacy by using many patches from the Tor Browser.

    • TesterJ
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      1211 months ago

      The only downside to using Firefox on Android is that Google search results can take forever to load unless you clear site cookies. And Google Image search is awful.

      However that’s all fixed if you use Duck Duck Go instead.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        1611 months ago

        You shouldn’t use Google anyway. Honestly, fuck Google and their surveillance ecosystem. If you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

      • Alex
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        1211 months ago

        +1 for duckduckgo. Google is mostly ads nowadays

      • Renere
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        911 months ago

        i believe that’s all fixed if you install the Google Search Fixer, or at least ive never had problems using google search on firefox android after installing that

        • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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          411 months ago

          I believe that it’s also fixed by just using DuckDuckGo. Fuck Google, if you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

      • @LoyalOrange503@lemmy.world
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        111 months ago

        or use bing, I’ve switched to bing recently and it’s be come an overall. more enjoyable experience. Of course, using something like Duck Duck go instead of using a big company alternative is better in any case.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        511 months ago

        Fennec is just Firefox Nightly without the Firefox branding. Mull is superior as it uses patches from the Tor Browser and settings from Arkenfox user.js, it greatly improves your privacy.