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TreasonousBastard

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3. Yup. In 2016 Chinese investors bought it. The sale was approved by various regulators, but...

Reply to mitch96 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 07:08 AM

Oct 2019

who knows what they are doing behind closed doors. I've just been using it for so long it's second nature. Curiously, it comes with its own VPN and a bunch of other privacy goodies.

There's this new one, though, Vivaldi, which is based on the Chrome engine, but without the Google spyware and bullshit. It has a few bugs, but I like it a lot, and the bugs aren't fatal. They deal with them pretty fast, too. It uses most Chrome extensions.

And good ol' Firefox. It went through some tough times, but seems to be on the right track now. I'm using it more and more. Only been playing with it for a couple of hours on Linux, but it seems stable.

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I too, just installed Linux Mint. I found an older laptop with Win 7 on it and I had managed to... [View all] TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 OP

I've been playing with Linux Mint Cinnamon ramblin_dave Oct 2019 #1

Downloaded Opera, mitch96 Oct 2019 #2

Yup. In 2016 Chinese investors bought it. The sale was approved by various regulators, but... TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #3

"it comes with its own VPN" mitch96 Oct 2019 #4