In Ecosia’s settings you can set it to primarily use Google results instead of Bing. Makes it a lot more enjoyable to use.

I use their search engine but wasn’t convinced the browser offered much, personally.

I made my own list of non-American browsers recently when trying to switch from Brave. It gets a bit murky with open-source projects that have global contributors (and sometimes anonymous creators) but here it is:

Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi

Floorp, Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen

I made my own list of non-American browsers recently when trying to switch from Brave. It gets a bit murky with open-source projects that have global contributors (and sometimes anonymous creators) but here it is:

Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi

Floorp, Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen

Use a custom DNS to block stuff like this. PiHole, nextdns, adguard etc.

Both uBlock Origin and my piHole are blocking prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com (which is the video autoplaying). My browser (Librewolf) also blocks it - as blocked because the triggering iframe has the sandbox flag set.. Stuff like this always is down to your own set up.

Looks good until you zoom in a little

exit50 seems to suggest Firefox is German and Brave is Swiss which is… not the case

It should work fine. Filtering by one instance will show all Lemmy content. You can use a script to ensure you always land back on your instance.

You may wish to use a script to change all Lemmy links to point to your home instance https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

Switches all lemmy links to your instance.

just filter by your instance, e.g google thing_youre_interested_in site:sh.itjust.works

are you guys just not aware you can filter by site?

guitar site:lemmy.world

That’s the narrative but they trade more with Russia still than many of the nations that got tariffed.

Piefed is another federated social aggregator https://piefed.social/ akin to Lemmy.

Whelp, guess I’m joining the Boycott US movement

Edit:

Swapped Google for Ecosia

Brave for Librefox (also swapped Firefox Nightly for Iceraven on mobile)

Swapped Uber for Bolt/Uber Eats for Just Eats

!whitelistsilver

This is a popular claim but dubious and probably not true https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/40275/do-elephants-see-humans-the-same-way-humans-see-puppies

Deezer is decent.

Lobsters has blocked the Brave browser since a scam in 2019. We still block it because they lie about following standards so they scrape and sell copies of websites. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but they have previously targeted Lobsters by name and have a years-long pattern of bad behavior.

Well, that’s a new one. What you see if you visit it via Brave Browser.