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.
I heard that Cromite is shady, and recommendations pro Brave instead.I cant find the sources, this topic is really complicated, brave is shady too.
Which is crazy as Brave is so much more bloated.
Mulch is a based browser for regular Android, close behind Vanadium in features and release cadence, but without patches that break regular Android and only work on GrapheneOS.
What have you heard about Cromite which makes it more shady than Brave!?
This is what they mean I think
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/111966180001152300 https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/10550-mull-hardened-firefox-security/61
Pic for those who are lazy to click linkOh wow, not ideal
I used both Cromite and Brave. Ended up using Brave (disabling all the crypto things) since it offers better handling in ad blocks and anti fingerprint.
Brave is shady crypto infested spyware.
If you are referring to the crypto side of things you can easily disable them. I don’t see any spyware TBH.
If you look up what they did in the past, you’d know.
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.
The ones that you refer to is for them to make money. Ok so why is that bad? Do you pay to use their browser? No. Are they funded by Google like Mozilla is? No. Does this tactic interfere with your browsing since you can disable these shit? No.
I’m not defending Brave at all but one should be criticizing objectively.
Ladybird is at least 2 years out from any production version. And they still have funding I think.
So comparing all browser I believe they least shit is Brave. Librewolf is fine too and in terms of speed it’s not that far behind and in real life no one will give a shit or even notice. It all comes down to usability in the browsing experience.
That logic makes absolutely no sense. Look into Google before you take issue with Mozilla.
i get where you are coming from but right now i am more mad at mozilla xD
Keep your eye on the prize. Google and Mozilla aren’t even in the same area code of shit. Firefox is the obvious answer.
