Librewolf is great, but now some stupid sites require chromium-based browsers to work. E.g: Microsoft teams.
- Ungoogled chromium? problem is that it’s worse in fingerprinting compared to Brave. See: https://privacytests.org/
- Brave: bloated and filled with unnecessary features.
Why isn’t there a Brave fork yet that gets rid of the crypto junk?
Just use a user-agent switcher in Firefox
This works very well, I have yet to run into a site that is broken on FF/LW, they just want a chrome user-agent for whatever reason.
I’m not sure about fingerprinting, but Vivaldi might be an option.
Vivaldi is a nice browser, but doesn’t do too well when you look at the technicals. It is also bloated with side panels, email, calendar, notes, etc that I didn’t want. Unfortunately Vivaldi and Brave are trying to out “extra” each other.
I can’t agree more. That is why I use Librewolf. But I keep Vivaldi as a backup browser when something is broken as it feels “less worse” than Brave.
@Tiritibambix @opt9 I am one of the people that jumped onto Vivaldi very early in 2016 right when it was created and after using it for so long I have to say Brave is better now if you’re looking for practical functionality and speed. Although I don’t see a point in using Vivaldi or Brave when Librewolf exists. Unless you need some specific thing in Vivaldi or their cross-platform sync between devices, since I’d personally trust them more with that than Firefox or Brave.
I have to say Brave is better now
Brave Browser Under Fire For Alleged Sale Of Copyrighted Data.
That’s note the first time they fuck up. They’re banned from my computer.
@Tiritibambix Thanks!
It’s not even open source. No thanks.
@j2b @Tiritibambix It’s open source with the exception of the proprietary UI.
@Kulei
Yes. It doesn’t matter if part of it is OSS. If one part isn’t, that’s a black box, which is a huge red flag.
@j2b @Tiritibambix@jonte @j2b @Tiritibambix I agree. I don’t know of a better alternative when it comes to Chromium other than Ungoogled Chromium, afterwards probably Vivaldi and Brave
I don’t think something closed source counts
Why isn’t there a Brave fork yet that gets rid of the crypto junk?
It probably boils down to funding. People need to get paid at the end of the day. The ultimate solution is a paid browser that works only in the user’s interest, but people are spoiled now. They want everything for free, and they want it to work perfectly also. The reality is that nothing is free in life. You either pay with money or in another currency (your info).
I would suggest not using sites and services that require a certain browser. That is the only way to counter this attitude of Google. If you have to for your job or something, use Brave only for that and keep everything important on librewolf.
@zephyr vivaldi talks a good talk but still has plenty of telemetry and closed additions
Maybe Iridium browser? It’s open and libre and has removed some/many/all chromium/google phone homes?
