Hi. I wasn’t sure where to post this, hopefully this is the right area. In lemmy’s opinion, what’s the best eco/environmentally friendly web browser? Basically low on resources, saves battery, etc. Private and secure is a bonus.

  • Dreeg Ocedam
    8•3 years ago

    Honestly, I don’t think that browsers themselves make a real impact on the environment.

    But if you want to reduce the impact of your browsing:

    • browse less (duh)
    • always use an ad-blocker (ublock Origin on Firefox is the best adBlocking out there), this reduces how much you’re being pushed to consume and makes advertising companies lose money
      • Dreeg Ocedam
        7•3 years ago

        Yeah, but the battery usage due to the browser causes negligible pollution compared to the construction of the device and the operation of servers.

        • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
          2•3 years ago

          But I don’t include only electricity and battery pollution.

          It is like say that a video game only have impact in that.

          A web browser can put a computer into a stress to make you buy new RAM modules (to increase it) or dedicated graphics card in some case.

          Sometimes, even change your current hard drive with a SSD.

          This can be showed in offices easily where no so much resources are needed at all.