Vivaldi Browser | Now with built'-'in Translate, Mail, and Calendar Chrome based but
Built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker
Sort out your tabs by grouping them in two-level Tab Stacks. Stacks are a great way to keep things tidy when you have a lot of open tabs.
Custom Search Engines
hide annoying cookie banners and dialogs on most websites.
Doesn't track your behaviour
Builtin translate, mail client(beta)
uses chrome extensions
Built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker
Sort out your tabs by grouping them in two-level Tab Stacks. Stacks are a great way to keep things tidy when you have a lot of open tabs.
Custom Search Engines
hide annoying cookie banners and dialogs on most websites.
Doesn't track your behaviour
Builtin translate, mail client(beta)
uses chrome extensions
Noticing that just by reading this thread, I am already getting Ads for Microsoft products, I think the battle is already lost.
Yesterday I was getting Ads for new door handles. Pretty weird, huh? No. I had mentioned the word door twice in a diy post along with a picture of a door:
Surely Google was just reading the word door twice to guess I might be interested in door handles? Not analysing the image and thinking that door handle was a bit old?
Even running Linux, Firefox Browser is evidently leaking like a sieve. These people also know your IP address anyway, so know everything about your household. Even a bootable DVD-R Linux disk is hardly safe, though hard to infect with a virus. I give up. 😡
Yesterday I was getting Ads for new door handles. Pretty weird, huh? No. I had mentioned the word door twice in a diy post along with a picture of a door:
Surely Google was just reading the word door twice to guess I might be interested in door handles? Not analysing the image and thinking that door handle was a bit old?
Even running Linux, Firefox Browser is evidently leaking like a sieve. These people also know your IP address anyway, so know everything about your household. Even a bootable DVD-R Linux disk is hardly safe, though hard to infect with a virus. I give up. 😡
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I use both.
Some sites work best with Chrome, others work better with Edge.
With regards to big brother watching, I have Google Nest at home.
When we sit and talk about whatever, and then later open a browser, ads are all about what we've just been talking about.
😱
Some sites work best with Chrome, others work better with Edge.
With regards to big brother watching, I have Google Nest at home.
When we sit and talk about whatever, and then later open a browser, ads are all about what we've just been talking about.
😱
I've installed Adguard plus and chosen to block all ads but i have to admit that sometimes I do see something that interests me.
system 7,
I buy quite a lot via Aliexpress but I do get annoyed because that site does just what you said. Just because I look at something because it just might be of interest I then get bombarded with emails on that and other items of the same type.
Let's face it for some time now Big Brother knows how many times a day you fart. When shysters or idiots refer to China or Russia that used to be as Communist countries it isn't at all funny. If someone is silly enough to post on reality in those countries it isn't long before it's taken down and they get a knock on the door.
It isn't really appropriate for this thread or for this site but 1984 and Animal Farm were prescient and sometimes it's a good idea to return to books you read long ago.
As I/we now have residency status here in France (Brexit) I shall be looking to buy land, this isn't an insane country like the UK and I can buy land at a rational price, something that is and has been impossible for a long time back in my homeland.
As a retired builder with experience in 3 other European countries I know what materials to use and how to design a functional home, that doesn't require a/c and is easy to build and maintain.
There are two things you absolutely need to be independent of Big Brother - clean potable water and electricity. The first is easy, build a water cistern that can hold 10,000 gallons + of rain water + install a simple cost effective water filtration system and add a generator/pure sine wave inverter with AVR - automatic voltage regulation +/- 1% and at the moment deep cycle golf cart batteries ( because battery designs are changing almost by the day) graphene batteries are not far away, 50-100 times more storage capacity.
If you don't have these then you are totally at the mercy of Big Brother and the modern world can be taken away from you in a moment by Big Brother switching off the power stations - no electricity and no water. You maybe a Macawber and that mindset is fine until the moment it isn't.
Anyone living in a house can invest around €3-4K if you live in an apartment your stuffed. Just today someone working on the telephone lines arbitrarilly turned off the line and I had no i/net connection for around 3 hours. If I had sat. com. this couldn't happen. I really like the company I use for i/net/TV and landline because I get as part of my package Intermezzo and Stingray Brava (check them out).
You pays your money and make your choice.
I buy quite a lot via Aliexpress but I do get annoyed because that site does just what you said. Just because I look at something because it just might be of interest I then get bombarded with emails on that and other items of the same type.
Let's face it for some time now Big Brother knows how many times a day you fart. When shysters or idiots refer to China or Russia that used to be as Communist countries it isn't at all funny. If someone is silly enough to post on reality in those countries it isn't long before it's taken down and they get a knock on the door.
It isn't really appropriate for this thread or for this site but 1984 and Animal Farm were prescient and sometimes it's a good idea to return to books you read long ago.
As I/we now have residency status here in France (Brexit) I shall be looking to buy land, this isn't an insane country like the UK and I can buy land at a rational price, something that is and has been impossible for a long time back in my homeland.
As a retired builder with experience in 3 other European countries I know what materials to use and how to design a functional home, that doesn't require a/c and is easy to build and maintain.
There are two things you absolutely need to be independent of Big Brother - clean potable water and electricity. The first is easy, build a water cistern that can hold 10,000 gallons + of rain water + install a simple cost effective water filtration system and add a generator/pure sine wave inverter with AVR - automatic voltage regulation +/- 1% and at the moment deep cycle golf cart batteries ( because battery designs are changing almost by the day) graphene batteries are not far away, 50-100 times more storage capacity.
If you don't have these then you are totally at the mercy of Big Brother and the modern world can be taken away from you in a moment by Big Brother switching off the power stations - no electricity and no water. You maybe a Macawber and that mindset is fine until the moment it isn't.
Anyone living in a house can invest around €3-4K if you live in an apartment your stuffed. Just today someone working on the telephone lines arbitrarilly turned off the line and I had no i/net connection for around 3 hours. If I had sat. com. this couldn't happen. I really like the company I use for i/net/TV and landline because I get as part of my package Intermezzo and Stingray Brava (check them out).
You pays your money and make your choice.
I thought it worth a mention but forgot to add it to my previous post. Got an email toady from ma platine re. Octavia network player @ €149, if I'm not happy with the Marantz Cd6007 this may well be an alternative - check it out.
That was totally off-topic, but extremely interesting, Black Stuart. We need a man of your technical ability in the Expanding Universe thread. 😀
Our forum speaker genius is currently twiddling his thumbs in the Sin-Bin. A place I have been known to inhabit, once for 3 weeks for an infraction. It was all a misunderstanding, of course. 😱
But doubtless Joe is now free of the internet and busy designing his latest stunning creation. I got loads of USEFUL stuff done while banned.
Our forum speaker genius is currently twiddling his thumbs in the Sin-Bin. A place I have been known to inhabit, once for 3 weeks for an infraction. It was all a misunderstanding, of course. 😱
But doubtless Joe is now free of the internet and busy designing his latest stunning creation. I got loads of USEFUL stuff done while banned.
I have also used Vivaldi (from Teztchner, the co-founder of Opera), searching with DuckDuckGo - No problems - no ads.
Just try it.
Just try it.
Steve,
ever since I started eyeballing audio forums I have heard the oft repeated moans about the grid electricity supply and the oft repeated b/s that there is nothing you can do except shell out for expensive gear to 'fix' the problem.
The solution is as I posted. What is €3-4K in comparison to the price of a property - almost nothing. And it is a solution for all electrical appliances - they are designed to work at specific voltages. When they are supplied with voltages that are either too high or too low, guess what they don't last too long.
I will use a diesel generator, yes I know they are not environmentally friendly but diesel has the longest shelf life and unlike gas or petrol, it only takes one mistake and it's goodnight Vienna.
Years ago I used to trade almost daily on the stock markets, not being able to buy or sell at the right moment could mean getting financially castrated or missing huge opportunities. Today markets move not in months or weeks or even days, they move in moments and if I was still active then sat.com. is the only form of i/net connection to have. Having an independent electrical supply is therefor a must have.
knut - I will.
ever since I started eyeballing audio forums I have heard the oft repeated moans about the grid electricity supply and the oft repeated b/s that there is nothing you can do except shell out for expensive gear to 'fix' the problem.
The solution is as I posted. What is €3-4K in comparison to the price of a property - almost nothing. And it is a solution for all electrical appliances - they are designed to work at specific voltages. When they are supplied with voltages that are either too high or too low, guess what they don't last too long.
I will use a diesel generator, yes I know they are not environmentally friendly but diesel has the longest shelf life and unlike gas or petrol, it only takes one mistake and it's goodnight Vienna.
Years ago I used to trade almost daily on the stock markets, not being able to buy or sell at the right moment could mean getting financially castrated or missing huge opportunities. Today markets move not in months or weeks or even days, they move in moments and if I was still active then sat.com. is the only form of i/net connection to have. Having an independent electrical supply is therefor a must have.
knut - I will.
I do so as to have a Chromium based browser (do not mix up Chrome with Chromium, Google Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi etc are all based on Chromium) in addition to my main browser which is Firefox, chosen due to its vast adjustment possibilities, but many browsers suck nowadays, full of phone-home crap and resource hungry memory hogs.
Pale Moon is another pretty nice Firefox derivative which still feels and acts as the old lean Firefox browsers.
Pale Moon is another pretty nice Firefox derivative which still feels and acts as the old lean Firefox browsers.
@Ultima Thule "Firefox, chosen due to its vast adjustment possibilities" - that's exactly why I prefer FireFox.
I have never heard of Pale Moon, but will test it out this weekend. Thank you.
Kevin
I have never heard of Pale Moon, but will test it out this weekend. Thank you.
Kevin
What browser would you choose with GOOD security for an XP computer?
My older shop PC is running XP (for my programs) and has the LAST firefox version offered to XP users.
System security is not dependent on having current updates.... (Yes, I'm sure many would say this particular case is not the time to bring this up.. ok..) but in general once a program is stabilised and not added to, it can be left alone. It is the adding to... the fact that it is being 'updated', it is in flux, that makes it not secure.
Yes I use Brave sometimes, as well as Chrome, Edge and FireFox. I still have IE active, because I have a lot of links and passwords archived there with a plugin that doesn’t exist in the newer plafforms.
When using Chrome, I use a VPN too (VeePN). Just to stay safe…
Regards, Gerrit
When using Chrome, I use a VPN too (VeePN). Just to stay safe…
Regards, Gerrit
I have been browsing since Netscape Navigator 😀 I've tried Firefox, Chrome, Edge, but finally settled at Opera and I am happy with it. Sometimes I go for Edge, but it starts sooooo sloooowly.