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Sep 23 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Chrome 🥀
Microsoft Edge 🥀
Opera 🥀

Here’s a list of browsers worth using in the big 2025:

1/5
Brave Browser:

Out-of-the-box fingerprint resistant ✅
Built-in ad & script blocking ✅
Comes with its own independent search engine ✅
Chromium-based (extensions carry over from Chrome) ✅

Based on Google’s code, including the closed-source "Safe Browsing" code ❌
Built-in ads ❌
Cryptocurrency features 🤷

2/5
Firefox:

Open-source ✅
Secure cross-device syncing ✅
Total Cookie Protection enabled by default ✅

Vulnerable to fingerprinting ❌
Collects telemetry data ❌
A little too reliant on Google for funding ❌
Encourages users to use privacy-invasive Big Tech AI ❌

3/5
Zen Browser:

Gecko(Firefox)-based (extensions carry over from Firefox) ✅
Doesn’t collect telemetry data ✅
Blocks third-party trackers ✅
Enforces HTTPS ✅

Still in Beta ❌
No mobile apps ❌

4/5
Our preferred choice? It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s not Google Chrome.

Choose what works for you and keeps you productive.

See more alternatives here:

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Are you playing around with your new Grok AI girlfriend? You need to stop. Now.

While some don't have an issue with fictional relationships, using AI to fill that need is extremely dangerous, and it should not be normalized.

Here's why:

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Without your informed consent.

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While some don't have an issue with fictional relationships, using AI to fill that need is extremely dangerous, and it should not be normalized.

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Conversations about your desires, deepest insecurities, and emotional needs are stored, analyzed, and used to train future models, or even worse, sold off to third-party advertisers.

Without your informed consent.

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After asking Meta's AI a question, you are presented with a share button.

This publicly shares whatever you were discussing with the AI.

What?!

1/4
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2/4
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1/5
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