It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • Enkrod@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago
    1. it’s fucking Chromium

    Go use some Firefox-derivative like Librewolf or Fennec, like a sane person.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 days ago

      Yeah, this is important. Fuck Google. I will only ever use a chromium browser if I have to for work or for a misbehaving website.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        I will reject the misbehaving website rather than resort to using Chromium.

    • Electricd@lemmybefree.netEnglish
      0·
      10 days ago

      Librewolf’s defaults are so bad, and changing them basically entirely removes the anti fingerprinting features

      • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        I agree, I know why they do it and I can appreciate it, but it’s just not for me. I do not want my history and cookies cleared when I closed the browser, for instance. That is massively inconvenient and not really relevant to my “threat model.”

        So I guess I wouldn’t say they are bad, but certainly not ideal for me.