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Re: What's your favorite browser?

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On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:14:36 +0100, Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com>
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>Dne 09/11/2016 v 21:58 Happy Oyster napsal(a):
>> On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 16:23:04 -0800, mike <ham789@netzero.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Be careful. Opera is NOT the old Opera anymore. The company sold (most)
>>>> of their stuff to a rich Chinese consortium.
>>>>
>>> What actions describe the care I should take?
>> 
>> I simply would not use it anymore. Browsers send information about
>> whatever you do and type to companies (now in China). That must be
>> stopped.
>
>For PC, what about Vivaldi, the fork based on older Opera version,
>done by the original Opera team, some time before Opera was sold ?
>As the team did not like the course
>Opera development was bearing toward.

I use Vivaldi. It has some advantages over other browsers, but is a
severe loss of functions, compared with OLDER versions of Opera.
Somewhen Opera programmers began to cut off important functions. 


>For Android, aside of big ones like chrome, opera and FF,
>there are several interesting browsers,
>like CM browser, UC browser or Dolphin.

I think I saw Dolphin. I tried Android on a small machine. It was hell.
I HATE ANDROID!


>But, perhaps users should avoid any browser at all,
>as all of them eventually interact with the code of web pages,
>with all that tracking JS and webbugs.

Javascript must be banned by law.


>( A webbug is a very tiny image, usually 3rd party and transparent,
>used for a page visit tracking purposes. The 3rd party passive resources
>are seldom filtered, as such a general filtering would affect the web
>experience, unless selective filtering is applied.
>But such a filtering as AdBlock/uBlock, Request Policy
>or NoScript-ABE is rare on Android platform.)

Web-bugs are something different than Javascript. Switching off images
is an easy way to avoid them. But one of the drawbacks of the now
"modern" browsers is that the force people to load images. And MANY
web-sites force surfer to have images ON. Otherwise navigation does not
work there. 
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What's your favorite browser? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-11-08 13:40 -0800
  Re: What's your favorite browser? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-11-08 23:20 +0100
  Re: What's your favorite browser? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-11-08 23:51 +0100
    Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-09 03:17 +0400
      Re: What's your favorite browser? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-11-08 16:23 -0800
        Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-10 00:58 +0400
          Re: What's your favorite browser? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 03:14 +0100
            Re: What's your favorite browser? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-11-10 09:09 +0200
              Re: What's your favorite browser? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 08:23 +0100
                Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-11 03:51 +0400
              Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-11 03:45 +0400
            Re: What's your favorite browser? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 21:10 +0000
              Re: What's your favorite browser? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 22:32 +0100
            Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-11 03:44 +0400
              Re: What's your favorite browser? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 08:08 +0100
                Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-12 04:08 +0400
                Re: What's your favorite browser? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 07:02 +0100
          Re: What's your favorite browser? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-11-10 13:15 +0100
            Re: What's your favorite browser? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2016-11-11 03:55 +0400
    Re: What's your favorite browser? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 06:29 +0100
      Re: What's your favorite browser? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-11-09 09:01 +0100
  Re: What's your favorite browser? Bob Henson <rh547477@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 09:14 +0000
  Re: What's your favorite browser? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-11-09 11:30 +0100
  Re: What's your favorite browser? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-11-09 16:50 +0200
  Re: What's your favorite browser? Henry The Mole <henrythemole@mckenziesfarm.old> - 2016-11-09 15:55 +0100
  Re: What's your favorite browser? Stephen Chadfield <stephen@chadfield.com> - 2016-11-10 01:43 +0000
    Re: What's your favorite browser? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-11-10 07:31 +0000
      Re: What's your favorite browser? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-11-10 08:00 +0000

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