tumblr doesn’t even pretend to show me notifications any more, if you say something to me and I see it it’s purely because I stumbled upon it by chance in an enchanted grotto deep in the moonlit forest at midnight and will never find it again.
pretty boy isn’t an insult. even if you sneer it at someone while pointing a gun at them and demanding their wallet, you’re still complimenting them. you’re just doing it with homoerotic hostility. fruit on fruit violence. why don’t you buy them flowers with their money that you just stole.
Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome
Anyone know what I should use beside Chrome ?
[image id: screenshot of a twitter post from EFF @EFF
A switch has been silently flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web.
Below the text is an image of an eye-shape with a “G” in place of the iris and pupil.
More text: Google is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions
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As for what you should use instead of Chrome, you should use Firefox! It is put out by Mozilla, which is a non-profit developer devoted to an open internet, with emphasis on individual privacy and security. It is one of the very few browsers out there which is not based on Google’s Chromium engine–even Microsoft’s browsers are actually Chrome under the hood, but Firefox isn’t. Which means Google has no backdoor into the browser.
Now, given that like 90% of people use Chromium-based browsers these days, some websites design specifically for Chromium instead of for general browser use, which means they don’t work without Chrome. But this is a TINY proportion of websites; most work with Firefox just fine.
And the thing is, switching over is REALLY EASY.
You just download Firefox, and it will import all your bookmarks and history and shit from Chrome. And then you’re ready to go!
I also suggest using DuckDuckGo as a search engine instead of Google. Like Firefox, DuckDuckGo is devoted to privacy, and it’s really good. And there is an addon for Firefox that will make it your default search engine in the browser.
This is what I’ve been talking about!
I add this comment onto every post I see about Firefox, just in case anyone is in the same boat as I am: I loved Firefox but stopped using it years ago because at the time it had BAD memory leaks and frequently lagged or froze up for no apparent reason. Last year, I gave Firefox another shot, downloaded it on my new computer in place of Chrome, and all of those old issues have been more than fixed. Current Firefox isn’t laggy at all and takes up SO MUCH less memory than Chrome does these days. Highly recommend it.
