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-hardeningโ
@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 ๐๐ฆ
@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"?
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @nikolal
https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links
That's why I don't trust them ๐โ๐ป
@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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@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat the reason it upset people is brave has hardly been around long and already got caught screwing people. Who knows what else they haven't got caught doing.
2. FF with the right extensions I'm sure is more secure. I'd have to look more into it because I just woke up. ๐๐
3. Agreed.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @Wetrix wow. You really got me thinking here, guys. I use both browsers (firefox & brave) with different purposes. Firefox it's my main, with containers and extensions. I value the bookmarks sync because I use linux and mac. And sometimes brave due to the bad cpu performance that I have with firefox on mac. I might try chromium. I'm afraid bookmark sync will be a pain in the ass ๐
@romina @Three Badgers In A Trench Coat we also have to keep in mind FF is foss. We don't actually know how secure brave is iirc
FF is my main browser to. To many good extensions and it syncs nicely. I prefer foss myself ๐
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @romina well if they're both foss I think it comes down to preference for alot of it. I've never had problems with FF, I just don't like Google or anything to do with them that's all โบ๏ธ to each their own I suppose ๐ค
@Wetrix @romina If you don't like Google then its all the more reason to give it a shot. Firefox actually contains notably more Google code and makes many more connections to google ootb than Brave or especially Ungoogled Chromium (as UGC doesn't connect anywhere unless you want it to.)
Like you said, to each their own. Have a nice rest of your day.
@romina Something I forgot to include is that I used Firefox for seven years, so I have a decent amount of experience with it and I get it, it was so very difficult to give up the syncing between my different devices after using it for so long. While I eventually got used to it and everything, you might not have to. I recently found a plugin with stellar reviews called "xBrowserSync" (to be clear, not an ad.) No sign up, e2ee, bookmark syncing, bookmark tagging, no collected data.
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While I haven't personally tried it, I've heard great things. It also (supposedly) works on Ungoogled Chromium (which is even way better than Brave for privacy and security) with zero problems, which would make the whole experience just that much more seamless. I've found that Ungoogled Chromium's RAM and CPU usage hasn't been anything that I didn't see on Firefox, that said, my testing has been anything but scientific.
I hope this helped, have a great rest of your day!
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@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat thank you for taking the time to write and share your experience! I'll investigate and try it. :)
@romina Of course! Good luck!
@Wetrix I mean the same can be said about Firefox.
2. Nope. Firefox is irreparably and inexcusably worse for security than any Chromium based browser, its not even close. It can't even be considered enough for the normal person.