My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don’t change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?

  • DangerousInternet@lemmy.world
    422·
    9 months ago

    It is actually not. While it has all telemetry and spying removed, the code of chromium is mostly untouched, all your clicks in UI is still registered, that is why it is slower in synthetic tests than tweaked browsers, like commercials Brave/Vivaldi or one-man Cromite/Thorium.

      • DangerousInternet@lemmy.world
        214·
        9 months ago

        Vivaldi? Yeah it has more proprietary blobs, than Brave or Firefox, but it is mostly free. Do I recommend it? Nope. But it is good. I myself don’t like it lot, too much bloat.

        Edit. I can recommend only Brave and LibreWolf on desktop. On mobile Mull and Brave. I don’t really trust about one-man projects, even Kiwi Browser. But they are good.

        • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
          12·
          9 months ago

          no, do not mistake yourself. they are not proprietary blobs. the whole browser is proprietary. they release a tarball with the chromium code + some changes. but the whole UI which are the main changes are proprietary (after all, like any Chromium browser, it’s mostly a re-skinned Chromium, they don’t make any changes to the engine).

          It’s a proprietary browser. They just release a bunch of code for marketing purposes. Don’t believe me? Try compiling it, and tell me if what you get is Vivaldi minus some blobs.

          • DangerousInternet@lemmy.world
            29·
            9 months ago

            Wtf are you talking about? It is Foss browser, but their UI code has no license to copy and modify, but code is audited and trusted. Vivaldi could be trusted same as Mozilla and Brave. It even more privacy respecting than Firefox!

            At the end it really does not matter… It is all about personal preferences. People just use something and whatever works for them is OK.

            • duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              71·
              9 months ago

              “Note that, of the three layers above, only the UI layer is closed-source. Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.”

              Straight from the horses mouth. So 92% of it is the same as every other chromium browser. 3% is their oss code and 5% is closed source. That 5% more than actual open source browsers.

              Which means the final product is closed source.