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Just disable the ads, crypto and telemetry and suddenly none of those things are a problem anymore, just like Firefox.
It still uses chromium and it's susceptible to the Google's Web integrity protocols. An website using the new protocols can refuse to load on your browser if you don't accept the ads. Why is it so difficult to comprehend?
I'm not sure what that means. It doesn't "use Chromium", it is a fork of Chromium.
No. It isn't. You're thinking of Chrome. Don't know how many times I can say this but Chromium forks are not Chrome.
...huh?
Because it makes zero sense.
Using a fork of Chromium is still using Chromium, and still helping Google's dominance in the browser market. Using forks of Chromium is still supporting Google in the same way using forks of Firefox is still supporting Mozilla.
That's not correct. Chromium is an entirely different browser. It has a logo that looks like the Chrome logo but gray.
When there becomes a suitable alternative that I can use for daily tasks and still preserves privacy, I'll recommend that one.
Currently I use 1 of 5 different browsers, depending on the task. I can't really recommend other people do the same. So the one is typically recommend is Brave because it's the only out-of-the-box privacy-preserving browser that works with virtually any webpage.
Literally any Firefox fork is a suitable alternative that can be daily driven. As for out-of-the-box function I don't see that as a factor in a community all about privacy, changing settings is pretty much the norm.
Edit: Also I said using a fork of Chromium is still using Chromium, not Chrome.
That's simply incorrect. I've used a few and many of them don't load webpages properly. We can argue about who's to blame for that but at the end of the day they don't work the way any Chromium browsers would.
I've never had any such issues.
I have come across web pages in the past that refuse to load if the user agent isn’t chrome/edge
I haven't encountered this issue. And Ungoogled Chromium is always an option.
That would run the risk of the user agent displaying as chromium. So you would still need to change the user agent, which I’m not sure why you wouldn’t do that to begin with
Ah. So then these issues don't exist or what?
I'm not saying they don't exist, just that I have never personally experienced them. The only issues I've ever really experienced are with DRM-ridden websites which you should avoid using anyway.
brave has announced they will not be including WEI
but that still doesn't change the fact that brave sucks
For now. After more and more websites break down, they will comply or start to lose people
It has tor built in if you're concerned about that
firefox doesn't have any crypto bs?
No but it does have telemetry.