I should stick to Firefox forks like Waterfox, Librewolf, or Ironfox. I think Vivaldi has gone the way of Chromium as have many others.
Extensions you can run are Privacy Badger (EFF) and Port Authority.
Yeah I’m also using Waterfox but it sometimes just doesn’t work well enough, so I switch to Opera. So I’m kinda looking for something Chromium-based
Really? I’ve been on Waterfox for months at work, home, and mobile without issue. However, I don’t watch videos online, game in browser, nor have any social media.
It is sometimes significantly slower than Opera, which I’ve been used for years before. Not like for the whole time, but there are cases when I prefer Opera. I thought it was an issue with DoH but it was not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It might be excellent in terms of performance (I don’t know), but it’s proprietary software and based on google chromium, so I rather keep away from it. Try https://floorp.app/
Vivaldi is better than most. Most of it, is open-source, only the UI is not, for marketing/brand, etc reasons (they explained it better here https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/). I prefer to use Zen or arkenfox but since Mozilla appears to be following the “AI everywhere” route I will stick with Zen for now. For work related, sometimes I have to use a chromium browser so I use Vivaldi since I don’t like Brave. One other option would be to use ungoogled-chromium which is chromium but without any google spyware or services for that matter but, because of that, you can’t easily install extensions so it’s a trade-off.
I couldn’t find any fresh ungoogled-chromium builds, at least for my device. Isn’t the project actually dead?
No. If you are looking for binaries you have them here https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
So they just don’t port/compile it for certain platforms anymore?
For what I remember they only compiled it to Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and some ARM architectures. You can always compile it yourself altho, the wait time is lengthy.
I’ve done this, and while it’s a good browser, it’s super annoying - so much easier to stick Arkenfox.js into Firefox where uBO was never under threat anyway.
The level of control Google has over the Chromium project is always going to be a major liability, so we must support other engines long term, and until Ladybird and other projects are out there, it’s Firefox.
It’s a shame to see how beholden pols have become to corpo-oligarchs, we’ll never see Google carved up the way AT&T was.
I agree, that’s the dream at least. Even Mozilla has been making poor choices (AI and changes to their privacy policy with more nuanced language so they can share your data with their partners, which goes directly against their old promise to never share it or collect it). My faith in them is very much shaken but yeah, they are still better than the alternative…for now.
Google’s also probably influencing Mozilla to turn Firefox into another Chromium. I wouldn’t be surprised if they buy out Mozilla just to kill Firefox and gain a total monopoly on the web.
Vivaldi is much better than Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc.
But not on the same level as Brave.
(in the scope of Chromium-based browsers)
