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Either Brave or plain Chromium is the obvious choice. Privacy is not a technical challenge--it's just a switch that's trivial to turn off. I can either: - Inst
by zelly 7y ago
Either Brave or plain Chromium is the obvious choice. Privacy is not a technical challenge--it's just a switch that's trivial to turn off. I can either:
- Install Chromium from a community-maintained package manager on any platform: apt (even on Raspbian), choco, brew, AUR, ports
- Install a Chromium fork like Brave
- Download a nightly Chromium build from https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-sn... (and optionally copy Google API keys from a community package like Ubuntu's)
- Compile it from source (and optionally copy Google API keys from a community package like Ubuntu's). You are free to tinker and harden as much as you want, but it will cost you several days worth of electricity and your time.
#define google.com 127.0.0.1
But even with compiling Chromium, you'd still save more electricity than having Mozilla Firefox open all day. You won't deal with losing all your work because of a segfault somewhere in a behemoth from the 90s that ships all its new features as JavaScript (on SpiderMonkey!) addons.
This push for Firefox as a privacy browser is a nothingburger. Privacy can be switched on overnight; good software development takes years.
- stephenr 7y agoSuggesting a chrome based browser as a way to save energy is truly ironic.