I am just fed up with the same posts in this sub. "what is best browser for privacy" "what is the best browser for me as a restaurant waiter" and whatever the fuck not.
I think a wiki or something should be made with features, pros, cons, etc. of major browsers.
Just by doing that, half of the posts of this sub will be gone.
You are thinking someone has the patience to read some wiki? They don't even have the patience to use Google to search for one of those thousand of identical threads regarding best browser.
What we really need are 2 things: 1. A poll where the entire subreddit should decide on the best browser for each category. 2. A moderator bot spamming the results of that poll to each identical post asking for browser suggestions
we should have a flair browser recommendation and autoremove all posts with it
Actually genius, but honestly, shadowbanning would be better, if that is a thing.
Otherwise, there's a risk of 'why'd my post get removed' being spammed everywhere.
You want people to start spamming mods ? We need a moderator bot that answers those people. And another moderator bot that deletes that post after 2 days, giving them time to read the comment.
Even if the post is automatically removed, OP can still read what the auto-mod commented.
It should refer the OP to a megathread, making it actually functional.
call it the browsie awards and run it every year lol
Eh, reddit has a huge bias for anything "fighting monopoly", "Internet privacy" and "open source". I bet majority of the users (ie the browser market) don't give two shits of either of these. So this does not represent population or the people who will stumble here from random Internet search. So a poll would almost always be not the best answer for someone asking browser recommendation.
This is a weird take. People don't come to r/Browsers asking "what does the average person who doesn't care about browsers use?" They could answer that themselves: Chrome. Done.
They come here specifically because they want informed opinions from people who actually think about this stuff. That's... the entire point of asking enthusiast communities anything.
Also, casual users do care about Privacy a lot. There's a reason privacy-focused features are literally marketing bullet points for mainstream products. Privacy browsers and extensions have gone way more mainstream precisely because regular users started caring.
The "informed opinions" are biased that's the issue. The users asking for best browser and some reply would be Firefox and their sole rationale is it's fighting monopoly. And the users who asked in good faith start using a browser that is objectively slower and less optimized and more prone to breaking sites. I've seen people dismiss Vivaldi because it's not open source. The person who is asking a recommendation is likely don't care about that. Now Firefox has good features such as container. And open source browsers too do have good features. But the reason people recommend those are often solely due to the reason I mentioned in earlier comment. There are tons of comment saying I don't want to give Microsoft data when someone asks recommendation. But that's probably one of the lamest reason one could give to a random person. Because it's evident that not many gives a shit or cares about that. Microsoft edge is indeed a fantastic browser with lots of features. But it gets dismissed since its Microsoft's. That's the issue here.
good idea.
1) Choose between Gecko, Chromium & Webkit 2) Choose between privacy & security features beyond default settings 3) The end of this redundancy called wiki
You already have lost the majority of them with the first option. They just think they know chrome, because of the chrome browser with the same name. So this wouldn't help that much.
best thing would be to try all the mainstream browsers and stick to the one that fulfill most of their requirements.
blink, not chromium
that won't stop those posts coming up.
I need a web browser that don't promote the attention based internet economy. I meant something must not get the money and promotion just because it's attention seeking.
privacytests.org
This pretty much highlights browser privacy.
But what will the Brave fanboys do then?
brother you use Microsoft's crapware
I think so, like it should include rankings in different ways such as: privacy,support,features etc.
It’s missing Orion and SnowHaze. I’d swap out Opera and Edge for those two.
People can't even use Google search or AI to find simple information, and you expect them to read Wikipedia? 😂
The problem isn't really identifying the "best" browser. It's getting people to understand that the best browser today isn't necessarily going to still be the best browser tomorrow.
For example, FF has gone through periods in it's history where it was great. Then it was crap. Then it was OK-ish. Then it was good again....around and around. Same with Brave. It was fantastic, devoid of bloat and privacy/security focused. Then it got popular and became a bloated feature-farm. Etc, etc, etc.
It's just not a question you can get an answer for and forget about it. Anybody who thinks otherwise is naive.
All a wiki would do is reinforce the misconception that there's actually such a thing as THE best browser they can install and finally stop wondering. There isn't...or at least it certainly won't stay that way forever. Besides, who would maintain the wiki? Anybody interested enough to do the job would inevitably be a fan-boy of one or the other out of the bunch.
Windows? Use Firefox
Mac/iOS: Use Safari
Done.
And, you sure, you are not forgetting anything, are you?
Already
tell me, what was your motive behind commenting this here?
so, ...
Op asked for making this sub more clearer cuz of many different people here preferring different browsers. So I just gave him the perfect browser for whatever OS he uses. Forget everything else. 🫶🏼
What's the bottom left icon?
bro just use brave or tweaked firefox
I am pretty sure brave marketing team will build such wiki, showing how Brave is great ….👍 They will supply all sorts of pictures too.😀 How can something like that be trusted?
You use Edge🤣 how much did they buy you for?
What are you talking about, Edge is fast as fuck these days because Microsoft has optimized it to the gills
That wasn't my point, he's bashing Brave while using something like Edge himself...
do you perhaps has a reading inability that your doctor missed to diagnose?
And the GOAT browser of every aspect is.... Opera
even better than google when it comes to data stealing
Yeah that's why it's always the top😎
it's the gamer browser 😜😜