Since it looks like Firefox might not be a good option for the long haul due to some disappointing decisions from its management, I’m on the lookout for privacy-friendly alternatives. I came across Cromite, which is based on Chromium and has an ad blocker. Has anyone tried it? From what I’ve seen, the built-in ad blocker seems pretty basic and not very customizable. Still, I think any alternative we choose should be based on Chromium, especially if we don’t want to wait ages for Ladybird.
If you are referring to the crypto side of things you can easily disable them. I don’t see any spyware TBH.
Mozilla is adopting a ton of the things that were wrong with Brave. Recently, Brave criticized Mozilla’s PPA data collection for being too centralized, which implies to me that otherwise, there’s a lot of overlap between the two allegedly “private” systems. I don’t trust Brave telemetry, but it seems not even they can come up with many ways to differentiate themselves from Mozilla.
If they’re different somehow, I would love to know how.
In a way other than accrued trust or distrust, that is. At this point, I don’t think Mozilla is owed any inherent trust.
Did I ever talk about Mozilla? Who said Mozilla or stock Firefox was good? They’re ass. Mozilla is ass and stock firefox is worse than stock chrome. I wouldn’t use Librewolf if it wasn’t for the monopoly and ublock origin support. Not because Librewolf is bad but because I know that Firefox’s security sucks and Gecko is slow indeed, but now not even privacy focused chromium browsers are an option because of manifest v3, great. At this point, I am hoping for Ladybird to be something to look forward to, because even the alternative to chromium is shit.
Brave is not any better. It should be obvious for anyone enough to understand how shady brave devs are, when they:
- injected some referral into URLs (url injection… literally malware behaviour)
- added “private” (basically mozilla PPA) advertisements right into the browser
- added sponsored backgrounds into the homepage to make money
- set the default search engine to Google
- added etoro advertisements to the homepage
