It’s time to ditch Chrome

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    If anyone is looking for its cake and eat it too, you can try ungoogled-chromium : https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

  • design-reviews

    W3C specs and API reviews

    One case directly related to Chrome browser, and sending data to Google, there is issue with tracking headers. [source](https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/467#issuecomment-581944600)This allows tracking specific Chrome instance among all Google services.We cannot say whether this is used for tracking, but it allows it for sure.\[Register article about the same matter.\]([https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/02/05/google\_chrome\_id\_numbers/](https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/02/05/google_chrome_id_numbers/))

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

  • Firefox-UI-Fix

    🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.

  • lobsters-ansible

    Ansible playbook for lobste.rs

    Brave is, as far as I'm concerned, a cryptocurrency scam. Read about lobste.rs's experience with them here. They also spoof their user agent by default to avoid detection after websites starting blocking them for their fraudulent activity.

  • Bitwarden

    The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

    Even better, use a dedicated password manager like Bitwarden. Works on any browser or device.

  • caniuse

    Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

    https://caniuse.com/ keeps track of what features browsers support. Safari is rated last on their home page. Here is a comparison of supported features... https://caniuse.com/?compare=edge+91,firefox+91,chrome+94,safari+14.1,opera+76&compareCats=all

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • solid

    Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory) (by solid)

    Though the details and implementations are still being worked out, there are systems in development that allow you to store all of your own data locally in your home and you give permission to other services to use it transiently. Though there'd need to be work done somehow to ensure that data isn't being logged anyway I think limiting how much data companies can hold on to about you is the best way. One such example at the moment is Solid.

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