A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online
Whenever I come across one of those articles promoting "use Firefox instead of Chrome" I wonder if I'm the only one having those huge performance issues with Firefox on macOS. I seriously tried to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox a few times in the recent years because of all the dark patterns Google is pushing upon its userbase with Chrome, version after version. But Firefox <i>feels</i> significantly slower, makes the MBP fans go crazy and drains the battery like hell.<p>I've come to the conclusion that at this point it's no option for me to make the final switch to Firefox, as much as I'd like to. But I try to cut off Google's prying eyes from my browsing behaviour as much as possible:<p>- uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger is all you need to block the most nasty privacy invaders, seriously.<p>- I don't use the sync feature.<p>- I don't use Gmail, so there's no reason to login to my Google account, ever.<p>- I used Youtube's thumbs-up button as sort of bookmarks for my favorite videos, now I have a bookmarks folder for Youtube videos, which is ok for me, but might not be for everybody.<p>- automatically clear browsing data after quitting Chrome.<p>My dream browser would be Firefox with Chromium under the hood, but that's not very likely to happen...