What’s the best internet browser someone could recommend to me?

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paroom paroom said:
My guess is that you are logged in to a Google account on Brave. Brave stores cookies by default, LibreWolf doesn't, so even if you've logged into a Google account, you'll have to do so every time you open the browser. If you want to change that you can do so in settings.

However, why use Google in the first place? One of the most evil and powerful corporations, accumulating unimaginable amounts of data from billions of people, for no good purposes. It's not like there aren't good Google alternatives, either.
My favourite is Presearch, but there are lots of good ones.

There's a really nice site, alternativeto.net where you can check the best alternatives for search engines, browsers and lots of other stuff.

If you're using Google for EwTube, I get that, there are good EwTube alternatives, like Odysee, but until users don't adopt those alternatives, most creators have no incentive to upload on those platforms. (At least until they understand that censorship and shilling for a corporation just isn't worth it).
I use the WatchOnOdysee extension on Brave (haven't checked if it's available for LibreWolf yet) so that if I'm watching someone's content on EwTube who has their content mirrored on Odysee it automatically redirects to the Odysee version.
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No, I'm not logged into any Google account (or any account), and my cookies get deleted on exit.

Even when I manually delete all cookies/etc (of all time) and then reopen Brave, the Google cookies pop-up never shows, so Brave seems to have that benefit for me, in my experience.

I normally use Google for searches since it could give better results for some things, and most people use it, so I know what results are expected for the majority of users, but I'm hardly ever browsing in it while logged into anything Google related.
 
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We Are The Witches said:
I normally use Google for searches since it could give better results for some things, and most people use it, so I know what results are expected for the majority of users, but I'm hardly ever browsing in it while logged into anything Google related.
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Just be aware that Google's search results are heavily doctored in order to give you only the approved results. This means off the charts levels of censorship.
And ask yourself if you truly want to fund and support a corporation that actively suppresses free speech and is unfathomably corrupt.
- Children
- Child
- Kid
- Trans
- Detransitioner
- Political
- Paradigm
- COVID
- Coof
- Mental illness
- Look up
- Search for
- Conspiracy theory
- Virus
- Suicide
- Transhumanism
- WHO
- WEF
- Tyranny
- Totalitarian
- Government
- Corporation
- Google
- YouTube
- Palestine
- Genocide
- Israel
- Don't vote
- Scam
 
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paroom paroom said:
Just be aware that Google's search results are heavily doctored in order to give you only the approved results. This means off the charts levels of censorship.
And ask yourself if you truly want to fund and support a corporation that actively suppresses free speech and is unfathomably corrupt.
- Children
- Child
- Kid
- Trans
- Detransitioner
- Political
- Paradigm
- COVID
- Coof
- Mental illness
- Look up
- Search for
- Conspiracy theory
- Virus
- Suicide
- Transhumanism
- WHO
- WEF
- Tyranny
- Totalitarian
- Government
- Corporation
- Google
- YouTube
- Palestine
- Genocide
- Israel
- Don't vote
- Scam
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I see, although you must know that those filters seem very selective.

If I search now in a popular channel (just because it will have more results) any of those words, there will be a ton of results. Examples:
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Someone that agrees with you and is facing the same problem.
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Although I have not checked if these comments are completely visible, or "hidden". If they were "hidden hidden", then I would not be able to search for them and then they would be 100% censored.
 
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We Are The Witches said:
I see, although you must know that those filters seem very selective.

If I search now in a popular channel (just because it will have more results) any of those words, there will be a ton of results. Examples:
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Someone that agrees with you and is facing the same problem.
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Although I have not checked if these comments are completely visible, or "hidden". If they were "hidden hidden", then I would not be able to search for them and then they would be 100% censored.
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Google profiles people. It was discovered years ago that YouTube classified people according to what they do on their platform (I can imagine this applies to Google too), but I can't for the life of me find anything about it. If someone recalls this and has any links, I'd be very grateful if you shared them.

So what I think happens is you start getting more and more censored the more you talk against certain narratives. So let's say you merely talk about COVID in a neutral way, or defending the current narratives about it. Your comments are very unlikely to be censored. But the more you start talking about this, or about transgenderism, pedophilia or climate change in a way that doesn't align with the mainstream narrative, censorship starts becoming more and more prevalent. I also think censorship increases the more persuasive you are, although I don't have anything to prove this, so make of that what you will.

I sometimes don't bother trying to make certain comments any longer, because it's too much of a hassle trying to alter everything you're writing in order to pass the filters, and sometimes it doesn't even work because you didn't tweak a certain word. It's extremely frustrating.
 
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paroom paroom said:
Google profiles people. It was discovered years ago that YouTube classified people according to what they do on their platform (I can imagine this applies to Google too), but I can't for the life of me find anything about it. If someone recalls this and has any links, I'd be very grateful if you shared them.

So what I think happens is you start getting more and more censored the more you talk against certain narratives. So let's say you merely talk about COVID in a neutral way, or defending the current narratives about it. Your comments are very unlikely to be censored. But the more you start talking about this, or about transgenderism, pedophilia or climate change in a way that doesn't align with the mainstream narrative, censorship starts becoming more and more prevalent. I also think censorship increases the more persuasive you are, although I don't have anything to prove this, so make of that what you will.

I sometimes don't bother trying to make certain comments any longer, because it's too much of a hassle trying to alter everything you're writing in order to pass the filters, and sometimes it doesn't even work because you didn't tweak a certain word. It's extremely frustrating.
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Yeah, I myself hardly ever comment on YouTube (probably like 5 times max in several years) because of this hiding practice.

Happened to me a long time ago, I thought they "shadowbanned" one innocent post I made, but as I now know YouTube likes to hide things in strange ways (one type of hiding is that by default you won't see those comments, but if you want, there are ways to find them).

Plus a lot of channels are infested with pornbots (they literally copy other messages to farm likes & attention), so that's a big negative (because it truly is common, there's always a "random_girl_name" with a NSFW PFP with a copy-paste from someone else in there).
 
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We Are The Witches said:
Yeah, I myself hardly ever comment on YouTube (probably like 5 times max in several years) because of this hiding practice.

Happened to me a long time ago, I thought they "shadowbanned" one innocent post I made, but as I now know YouTube likes to hide things in strange ways (one type of hiding is that by default you won't see those comments, but if you want, there are ways to find them).
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Yes, if you sort comments by "recent" you can see the hidden ones. The most common thing that happens, when a comment I make gets censored, is that it straight up disappears. If I check for it, most of the time it's not just hidden, it's gone.

My likes are also shadowbanned. It's ridiculous. I realized this when watching videos with very little views, I'd refresh the page to check if my comments were still there and if I'd given a comment a like that originally had 5 likes it was now back at 5. When I gave it the like it registered, it went up to 6. But when I reloaded the page the like count was down to 5, although it still looked like my like was there. Since then I started paying attention and realized this is always the case with me.

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Plus a lot of channels are infested with pornbots (they literally copy other messages to farm likes & attention), so that's a big negative (because it truly is common, there's always a "random_girl_name" with a NSFW PFP with a copy-paste from someone else in there).
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I've been noticing this, but I didn't put 2+2 together. I was always a little puzzled by these accounts with NSFW profile pictures making intelligent comments. I don't know why I didn't think of this, it makes a lot of sense.
 
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paroom paroom said:
I've been noticing this, but I didn't put 2+2 together. I was always a little puzzled by these accounts with NSFW profile pictures making intelligent comments. I don't know why I didn't think of this, it makes a lot of sense.
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Yeah, just so you see how blatant it is (took some screenshots some days ago):
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