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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Chrome Browsers - Ditch it and use the open source Firefox browser.(www.eff.org)

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carbohydra [des/pair]@hexbear.net
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The profit motive creates innovation.

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Pirate [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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The bad kind of innovation -_-

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Koa_lala [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Innovative ways of making money.

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Pirate [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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@Kanna You can easily export your bookmarks and data to Firefox.

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grisbajskulor [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Passwords? I assume no. This + my boundless laziness made me switch back to Chrome after trying FireFox.

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Kanna [she/her]@hexbear.net
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I appreciate the heads up :)

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Pirate [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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I use DuckDuckGo myself for privacy reasons.

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Pirate [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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They also got a couple of Matrix rooms.

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thisismyrealname [he/him]@hexbear.net
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i currently use qutebrowser mostly because of the keybindings and compact style, though i would like to switch to firefox. is there any way to customize firefox to look like qutebrowser?

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Windows97 [any, any]@hexbear.net
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I know there’s a few popular vim based navigation extensions, I don’t use them much so here’s a list (fandom link) that you can check out yourself. In terms of compactness firefox can get really compact with userChrome theme (no relation to the browser chrome lol) like this or like this. I hope this helps a bit. for more info on userChrome theming check out /r/firefoxcss Also firefox has a compact mode which is pretty nice.

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thisismyrealname [he/him]@hexbear.net
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those look like exactly what i want, thanks! now i’ll just have to figure out how to get pywal to work with it

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Windows97 [any, any]@hexbear.net
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thanks I’m glad it helped :)

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