A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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    8 months ago

    Do you mean Safari?

    Name one other browser that is not based on Chromium. If it is based on Chromium, it has to deal with what Google throws at them.

    I say this as an enthusiastic Brave user. Brave is great at what it does currently, but the more terrible stuff Google builds into Chromium, the more patches they’ll have to maintain. This can make it harder to maintain their fork.

    Worse than that, most Chromium-derivative users aren’t Brave users. Many web apps already don’t work as well with Firefox’ JavaScript Engine (Gecko) as they do with Chromium. This gives Google immense power.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium

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        8 months ago

        I wrote Chromiun in the description too. Chrome is simply what people use.

        Plain Chromium, even with all GUI settings, all degoogle policy configs and flags enabled, contacts Google like hell.

        I tried googeeteller and its scary.

        Have not tried Vivaldi for a long time, but its fingerprinting resistance was nonexistent, it is filled with useless features and has no container support, so nah.

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        8 months ago

        That’s a solid criticism. Firefox + uBlock Origin or Librewolf are good desktop alternatives. But what’s the alternative on Android? Last time I checked, there wasn’t any on privacyguides.

        Btw I do always turn off all their rewards and wallet stuff and follow most of the https://privacyguides.org recommendations.

        Thanks for your help in making privacy-focused software available on Linux btw!

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          8 months ago

          Cromite has adblock. Vanadium too but it may break on on-GrapheneOS as it has security patches that break on regular android.

          Mull is very fine for me, I use Vanadium and Mull, Vanadium for crappy sites (because mobile hardened firefox doesnt support as much sites as desktop for some reason). Vanadium is very likely more secure, unlike on Desktop where that is not easily said.