• chi-chan~@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    10 months ago

    Probably any Chromium browser that didn’t degoogle it.

    Even though Firefox is way better, it’s also send user data by default.

    On Firefox you can disable it, and there are a lot of forks that send no data/the minimal user data needed.

    I’d recommend Mull or Fennec, and to stay away from (most of) Chromium broswers including Opera.

    E: wording

    • Display Name@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Brave is the best chromium browser, so no, brave is no spy ware.

      There are some sites that don’t work with firefox…

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
        52·
        10 months ago

        Remember when Brave injected referral links?

        Remember when Brave lied about giving money to creators, so badly that Tom Scott had to call em out?

        Remember just a couple weeks ago when Brave got caught installing a VPN service on users’ systems?

        Remember when several years ago Brave added “the Wikipedia of the alt right” as a search engine, because the founder unilaterally decided on it?

        • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          All shitty behavior and absolutely reasons not to use Brave or support them as a company, but none of those mean it’s spyware.

          • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            I was mostly taking issue with anyone calling Brave the best Chrome-based browser, which is wild when 99% of the work on it is done by one ad company and the final 1% by a second ad company.

            Is it spyware? I don’t know. You could argue it is less likely to be spyware than Chrome.

      • Dasamoolam Damu@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        I think its something related to the CEO of brave. His unnecessary tweaks and changes make brave less private for users.

  • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Everything proprietary. Use FOSS, cause it’s good :) Vanadium is quite nice, but for daily use I have the Kiwi Browser. It supports lots of extensions too.

          • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Ok, I took a look at the fixes in-between. Hope they’ll update soon. But that’s not really my concern. Everything sensitive is done in Vanadium or on my desktop with Librewolf (Payments, Shopping, Banking). Should have included that in my comment before!

            • Lemongrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              Cromite is an up to date bromite fork. Has good privacy and security hardening and the ability to import blocklists and userscripts. Using obtanium, you can get it directly from github

              • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                Thanks, didn’t know that fork. Just installed it, maybe it can replace my Kiwi Browser, which I only use because of the add-on support (uBlock, Translate, Cookieautodelete, DarkReader, Decentraleyes, floccus bookmark sync, canvas and font fingerprint Defender, useragentswitcher).