@Mogle , indeed it is questionable, each browser is as private as the user wants to do. It does not depend on whether it is a chromium or not, it depends on the measurements and the behavior displayed by the user.Complete privacy does not exist on the network, not even using Tor and VPN, this is a fact, moreover, privacy is null if with any browser, however private it is, it is still searched with Google and posting on Facebook.
A private browser does not track the user and does not use the data for commercial purposes, apart from blocking trackers and filtering personal data, this can also do a Chromium and p. ex. Brave or Vivaldi are surely as private or more than Firefox or others.

In the modern world, everything is automated, new programs and services are appearing to facilitate life and learning.

@JohnConnorBear , you cannot negotiate with Google, of course, but you can stop the abuse that is allowed in the United States. In order for Google to be able to operate in the CE, it has to comply with the CE regulations and laws, like any other commercial product in the CE.
Although the last word will have the user and if people use more and more alternative products to those of Google, which of course there are plenty of, I do not think that Google simply because of the commercial view of losing customers, is going to think very hard about insisting In changes that you predict.
That governments that place the needs of the lobiies before the interests of the people cannot be trusted too much, it goes without saying, but neither can one ignore the mandatory legislation that already exists.

does anyone have this dark thumbnail pack?

Iceland's Pandemic site does look fantastic, easy to understand and to get the trend. Even for someone inclined to Maths but not proficient in mathematical modelling like me.
There is always, always something to be grateful for. And there's always good news. Just get off mainstream media.
As for a trusted resource about the Virus , I use Johns Hopkins University info :
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
It's just one of the few , I check every now and then.
Stanford University 's site is another trusted source for me along with MIT's site.
Regards!

@Sushrut these thing brave has are more of POC quality and need proper replacement for daily use anyway

and remember: Vivaldi doing better doesn't mean it's ready for daily use either, it's still way below the threshold, though has much less issues and hopefully will fix most of them (but afaik adblocker will remain disabled and replaced by uBO)

we are people coming from Opera and Firefox (before their brutal deaths obviously), there's no way we'd settle with glorified chromium

what's missing? toolbar config, middle click to open new tab, gestures and hotkeys configuration, removal of annoying close tab buttons, a lot of APIs for extensions (that V also misses, once again, this should be WE + pushing towards real progress cause M alone isn't making it right) and likely tons of smaller stuff that will be annoying once bigger issues get fixed (hint: they won't, brave js meant to stay glorified chromium for some reason)

Nice work. Just got a new phone and now I have a new browser too! 👍

Although, if we want this newfound boon to mean much for our privacy we probably need you to rewrite the rest of Android too. 😉

The notes function is a highly useful feature. I use it a lot.
However a "Save Page As..." with a plain text option would also be of great use, as in O12.

@julien_picalausa This is reassuring since I got a ton of "invalid" and "unsupported" rules when importing (https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46091/vivaldi-tracker-blocker-ad-block-list-import-invalid-unsupported).
I hope full support for uBlock lists can come soon so we can make use of the whole list, but of course "WIR" is the principle. Anyway the internal blocker still gets the job done so I'll leave uBlock disabled. Awesome job on the this feature!

@reyn I use Vivaldi stable and snapshot on multiple machines connected to multiple corporate VPNs (although all are using Cisco AnyConnect IIRC) and have never ever had a problem.

And system-wide VPN is obviously more secure than any halfway-fudge through extensions or proxies! (Edit: why do you think the big corporations I'm talking about insist on using a real VPN with two-stage randomised user/pass combinations?)

@LonM , it remains a mere patch. It may even be that it lowers CO2 emission in general, especially in the EU, but there are no borders in the atmosphere, so it cannot be a real solution. Adding the elimination of the CO2 absorption means that massive deforestation and other contaminations present, simply selling the CO2 to each other is to sweep the problem under the carpet, which is already one meter from the ground as a consequence and as we see with the increase From an increasing increase in the average temperature and climatic catastrophes that many countries suffer, the melting of the poles, glaciers and permafrost soils, causing the release of huge amounts of methane, which further accelerates global warming.
Already in the 70s we have protested against this with practically zero results until today and nothing will change at climate summits, while the vote of lobbies and economic powers count more than that of scientists and a paper is worth more than Human life.

@Catweazle I already have the beard and am going grey, but I refuse to put on the red suit.
HO-HO-HO, Merry lockdown !

Thank u this is very helpful specially for me
many thanks

@Firsh Please read the comments above.

@yashpalgoyal1304 said in Why it’s more important than ever to upgrade your browser:

I cant edit the comment for some reason

Reply on the forum thread, not on the Blog.

I had only very recently read a couple of Jack's articles for the first time. When I saw the title was "ask Jack" in the Guardian website, I was expecting some typical simplistic journalistic advice on the order of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" (yes, I worked on an IT helpdesk many years ago and yes, I (recently) watched "the IT Crowd"...).

I was surprised to find it was more of a discussion than simple instruction, and even ended with admitting he wasn't sure of the answer and invited others to suggest solutions in the comments (it was about how to go about retrieving and backing-up decades old data from obsolete media, IIRC).

Seems we have lost an unusual and honest kind of journalist...

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There is also virtual karaoke.

@nenad-latinovic , the main problem in Spain now is the lack of material and health personnel, due to cuts in public health, applied by the previous government to benefit private health. However I applaud the solidarity and discipline that the population shows in the confinement and also in the spontaneous volunteering of professionals to help where they can.

@LonM said in 5 ways to protect personal information online:

For 1. If you're asked to make a security question (First pet, Place of birth, School Name) you don't have to answer these honestly - it's just another password. You can put any random stuff in there you want as long as you (or your password manager) can remember it later.

This is a fantastic point! It didn't occur to me for ages that I could do this!

It also makes answering so much easier, e.g. "Who is your favourite musician?" may have changed since you signed up for the service. Even if it hasn't changed, imagine you're a Gothic child of the 80s... : did you put "The Sisters of Mercy", "Sisters of Mercy, The", or "Sisters of Mercy" etc.?

For 2. Keep an eye on old accounts. You never know if a company might be sold to or bought up by someone else in the future. If you don't use them anymore and they have your personal data, delete your account.

I started a purge on this a while back... There are so many accounts I'd forgotten about completely, and I always thought I was really careful! Most people will have far more of these than me.

For 5. YouTube works perfectly fine with cookies disabled. It breaks commenting and recommendations, but then again, you might be better off without those 🙂

invidio.us will be very interesting to those who can't find the video they're after outside YouTube. I always check other video services first before I resort to Youtube - and even then, I only ever interact with it via an Invidio instance. Similarly, those who use Twitter might want to look at Nitter, which does a similar thing but for Twitter.

@Dr-Flay , thanks, I'll take a look, though, a company with an http page and not https? Ehm ...