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Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Vitaly@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Many reasons, but the main one is being able to self-host the sync server. It's just crazy that the entire browsing history of most people on the internet is stored on Google servers, with no e2e encryption!

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you use google search, it pretty much almost still is, tbh

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

True, that's why I also use a meta search engine, instead of Google directly.