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Lemmy helping Lemmy World browse the web (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I thought it would be helpful for all the good people of Lemmy World if we shared our browser setups.

I'm mostly a laptop user when it comes to the Internet. I've been using Firefox with the Ublock Origin addon and it makes browsing the web so much less ad filled.

For youtube specifically I've had the best results with Chrome and an extension called Clear Skies for ad skipping.

Share you own browser setup. What do you use to surf the wild waves of the web to avoid the sharks and the sharp rocks?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A user agent is a string it sends the website you're connecting to so it can know what rendering engine you have and which browser you use and so on. But, the dark side of user agents is that websites can use this to track you. So, if you don't want them to do so you can change it either manually or by using a browser extension. I recommend you to make your user agent look like chrome's, as this is the most popular browser and you will not be tracked as easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know.. Sounds like I'd have to trust another extension to do the user agent stuff in the background... I'm sure that's a solid solution for a lot of use cases, but i might just keep my method for now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

If the extension is FOSS then you can trust it.