I'm using my "backup" phone (same model, from eBay) to save some of my data and settings before I factory reset my phone to clear out the 15G of "other." I'd like to try avoiding Google products.

Trying Samsung browser on the backup phone, and next to no pages will load. Just white page. Tried mstdn.social. Some news pages will load. Pieces of some pages will load, like the Reddit banner for example.

Obviously it can't be "clear your cache" as it's a new device. Enabled java & cookies.

I am posting fron the "backup" phone, not signed in to Google, but now using Chrome as Samsung wouldn't show any websites.

I wanted to avoid Google products entirely including Chrome but maybe "not signed in" is at least a little better?🤷🏻‍♀️

@_L1vY_ Same with me, Mother Bones. But either way, They can identify the phone in any way they want. Because it all comes down to whether it is useful to you. And, if it is, that's all that matters... Those phone carriers can try to sell their BS to someone else...

-Have a great weekend.