Second blog post just went up now! It's an in-depth guide to hardening Ungoogled Chromium that I have worked on alongside the Firefox guide for a long time now.
Enjoy!
https://write.privacytools.io/threebadgersinatrenchcoat/ungoogled-chromium-hardening
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat Server seems to be down? @blacklight447
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat Ungoogled chromium is first alternative I will jump to if (when?) Firefox dies completely, I will refer to this guide when I do so.
@nikolal Yeah Firefox's longevity hasn't been looking great in recent times (especially with their google deal).
Glad to hear that you like the guide, thank you!
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @nikolal Mozilla is doing OK and though they are not perfect I will never touch anything like brave so if I have to pick the lesser of two evils I'll take Firefox 🙂🦊
@Wetrix @nikolal Not sure I'd classify large scale layoffs and deep seeded financial problems with their not non-profit counterpart company (who was the one who got the funding at the end if the day) as "doing okay" but I suppose it is partially subjective. How is Brave or especially Ungoogled Chromium "the [...] two evils"?
@Wetrix So in your opinion, everything that Firefox and Mozilla have done combined is better than one small crypto scandal that didn't really affect anyone privacy wise?
Firefox:
1. They're the second worst browser for privacy out of the box only behind Chrome.
2. Firefox is extremely insecure no matter what you.
3. On multiple occasions they've added telemetry that can't be disabled to sometimes a large amount of users, and other times a smaller subset, either way it's a problem.
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4. Sponsored top sites and search results.
5. They use Google as the hard coded geolocation provider and never disclosed it to users.
6. They made a huge deal with Google to continue to "fund the browser", but what it's really for is insurance that Mozilla will continue to add Google into Firefox at every turn.
7. If you use Firefox Focus, they collect and transmit telemetry data to a very large and invasive third party data holder and handler, Adjust GMBH.
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@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I'm still waking up and reading 😅
Need coffee ☕️😴
8. Due to all of the tweaking you need to do that you think makes the browser more private and more secure, in reality makes the browser less private and hardly changes the security.
The list goes on and on.
To be clear, I'm not saying that Brave is some perfect browser, its not, I'm just saying its a hell of a lot more private and secure than Firefox. This privacy and security increase is amplified tenfold with Ungoogled Chromium.
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