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Chrome finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, but not on Android(www.androidcentral.com)

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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Just wanted to mention that Firefox and Mull for Android allow you to do that. They are also much better than Chrome or any Chromium based browser, as they allow proper adblockers and they don’t support Google’s monopoly on the browser rendering engines which is just bad for the open internet in general. Mull also significantly improves your privacy by using many patches from the Tor Browser.

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TesterJ@lemmy.world
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The only downside to using Firefox on Android is that Google search results can take forever to load unless you clear site cookies. And Google Image search is awful.

However that’s all fixed if you use Duck Duck Go instead.

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LoyalOrange503@lemmy.world
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or use bing, I’ve switched to bing recently and it’s be come an overall. more enjoyable experience. Of course, using something like Duck Duck go instead of using a big company alternative is better in any case.

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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Why would you use Bing except for the AI features which are only available on Edge anyway? At that point, why not use DuckDuckGo? It will give you the exact same search results as Bing without invading your privacy and selling your data.

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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You shouldn’t use Google anyway. Honestly, fuck Google and their surveillance ecosystem. If you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

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canihasaccount@lemmy.world
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Or Kagi. I couldn’t do DDG but Kagi was good enough for me to finally switch off of Google.

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Renere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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i believe that’s all fixed if you install the Google Search Fixer, or at least ive never had problems using google search on firefox android after installing that

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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I believe that it’s also fixed by just using DuckDuckGo. Fuck Google, if you want Google search results, try Startpage, it’s a meta search engine for Google. Whoogle is also an option, it’s essentially a proxy for Google searches. But for me, DuckDuckGo’s results are totally fine, I’m able to find anything I need.

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Alex@feddit.ro
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+1 for duckduckgo. Google is mostly ads nowadays

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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Ads and tracking. And censorship.

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Alex@feddit.ro
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And also fennec

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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Fennec is just Firefox Nightly without the Firefox branding. Mull is superior as it uses patches from the Tor Browser and settings from Arkenfox user.js, it greatly improves your privacy.

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