Mostly used: Red blue yellow circle search engine thingy \u00a9\u2122 \u00ae (you all use it. i cant name it as google hosts my blog)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Update: It doesn’t anymore, but I don’t feel like changing this.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it fine to use it?: Ofc not, why would i be writing this article otherwise lol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n What Is Recommend: Firefox or Brave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sorry for that strange intro. I know I should have prepared something better for the start of the series, but meh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Web browser: possibly the most commonly used program on your PC, everything is done on the browser, etc. etc. And most of us use Red Blue Yellow Search Engine Circle Thingy\u2122, which is closed-source, proprietary software. (Please read my post on \u2018FOSS without Fuss<\/a>\u2019 if you haven\u2019t already.) It apparently spies on you as well [1], and does it seemingly shamelessly. (See Citations section for details)<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I recommend using instead is Firefox or Brave. Both are open-source browsers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First I will talk about Firefox, a browser developed by the non-profit Mozilla which everyone installs and no one uses. Seriously, Firefox deserves a lot more attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Sorry, got a bit carried away with the bold there.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before you scream \u201cEyekay, isn\u2019t the browser based on Chromium (open-source)?,\u201d I want to say: 1. don\u2019t scream at me, and 2. yes, you are right, but default Chromium doesn\u2019t have support for a lot a services and formats, for ex. H.264 etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to do the actual swap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brave Browser<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brave Browser is a very recent web browser, also based on Chromium, which has been becoming popular recently. Brave was founded by Brendan Eich, former Mozilla CEO and creator of JavaScript, and CTO Brian Bondy in 2015, with an aim for privacy protection. By default, Brave blocks all ads<\/strong> and website trackers, and maintains a cryptocurrency called BAT (Basic Attention Token) [3]. However, it has become very popular in recent years due to its pay-to-surf<\/strong> scheme, under which Brave will show you certain \u2018privacy-respecting\u2019 ads if you choose to enable their Brave Rewards, and gives you in return for seeing the ads, a cryptocurrency (oversimplified: online money) in the form of its Basic Attention Tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Update: Brave had faced controversies in the past over collecting donations on behalf of content creators<\/a>, and putting their own referral codes when browsing cryptocurrency sites<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wait, is it real money?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The BATs you earn will be kept in your Brave account. You can use these BATs to convert them into actual money by verifying it through a service, or you can choose to distribute<\/strong> your monthly earning among the websites you want to tip. These tokens are then stored as the tokens for the website you tipped. The website can then opt to verify themselves through Brave Verify, to use the BATs as their revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why not<\/em> <\/strong> use Brave then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I can only speak for myself here, but I don\u2019t really trust any cryptocurrencies in general, and I hate ads of any sort, however privacy respecting they are. (This is one of the reasons why I don\u2019t have any plans to verify eyekay.ml through Brave currently.) I also noticed that opting for Brave rewards lets ads to come up in the notifications as well, not just in the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Get on to the main point, how do I install it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s all! Again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Citations (yes I\u2019m taking this article waaay too seriously)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/06\/21\/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch\/<\/a> (This was the second result on searching for \u2018chrome spy\u2019, Firefox reference in it was coincidental. This is a really good article, definitely suggest reading.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/firefox\/firefox-data-privacy-promise\/<\/a> (Firefox\u2019s data privacy promise page which may be a bit biased towards burning foxes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. https:\/\/brave.com\/brave-rewards\/ (Brave\u2019s Brave Rewards info page which may be biased towards courageousness)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swap \u2019em Out! Switch! Exchange! Interchange! Insert synonyms here! Web Browser Mostly used: Red blue yellow circle search engine thingy \u00a9\u2122 \u00ae (you all use it. i cant name it as google hosts my blog) [Update: It doesn’t anymore, but I don’t feel like changing this.] Is it fine to use it?: Ofc not, why … Continue reading Swap \u2019em Out: 01: Web Browser<\/span> \n
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