With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

    • @Reliant1087English
      7•1 year ago

      It is a monopoly. They’ve been doing crap like not adhering to common standards and adding their own stuff on top so that chrome compatible websites might not work in Firefox. That wouldn’t be the case if they weren’t so big so as to force others to follow whatever design choices they make.

        • @Reliant1087English
          4•1 year ago

          I perfectly understand that chromium is not chrome. Unfortunately the development of modern web browsers is so fast and complicated that it isn’t possible to maintain a fork that is secure by a small organisation. You can do cosmetic things like Vivaldi or brave or whatever but forking the engine itself is a herculean task. See how well palemoon or waterfox are faring.

            • @Reliant1087English
              2•1 year ago

              Brave has been criticised for their in-browser shady crypto and most recently about sharing user data to be used for training AI, or something along those lines. In contrast ublock or umatrix are completely transparent plugins created by the community that has pretty much become the standard.

              Vivaldi has adblock built in as well, but I’m not a huge fan of that either.