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Is Chromium safe to use, or at least safe to use as packaged with Ubuntu's snaps? I know, I know, snaps are a difficult topic on their own, but my point is that

Is Chromium safe to use, or at least safe to use as packaged with Ubuntu's snaps? I know, I know, snaps are a difficult topic on their own, but my point is that, if Chrome's (and Edge's AFAIK) general hunger for data is a generally accepted fact at this point, then wouldn't employers/enterprises advising to use Chrome in their corporate networks not put themselves under risk of being sued for gross neglect in case customer data were leaking from Chrome sessions?

querez 6y ago
You can still install add-ons/extensions in Chromium, so it wouldn't help at all. Also, most malicious extensions try to siphon data from your web-session (e.g. your open gmail page), so sandoxing through snaps doesn't help, either. Chrome is still a fairly safe browser, and it is well within Google's interests to keep it that way. The big issue is users installing malicious extensions disguised as useful ones, and that's an issue independent of the used browser. You could argue that you are much safer with Firefox. Not because it's inherently safer, but simply because it's lower market penetration means that it is a less interesting target.
grey_earthling 6y ago
"It's Google. Everyone uses it. The defence rests." No-one gets fired for choosing IBM.
zelphirkalt 6y ago
Well,once at umiversity I saw Chrome installed on all machines, so I asked, why they installed spyware on _university_ machines. All I got was disbelieve and ridicule. These people are not even aware of what they are doing, nor informed enough to make such decisions.
- tannhaeuser 6y ago
  I guess if it were a CompSci faculty, the therapy is making these actions of your uni public, then see their academic reputation asymptotically approaching zero :) Though it's not clear what Chrome sends home, and TFA is only about Chrome plugins, so lets not prematurely start a witch hunt.

querez 6y ago

You can still install add-ons/extensions in Chromium, so it wouldn't help at all. Also, most malicious extensions try to siphon data from your web-session (e.g. your open gmail page), so sandoxing through snaps doesn't help, either. Chrome is still a fairly safe browser, and it is well within Google's interests to keep it that way. The big issue is users installing malicious extensions disguised as useful ones, and that's an issue independent of the used browser. You could argue that you are much safer with Firefox. Not because it's inherently safer, but simply because it's lower market penetration means that it is a less interesting target.

grey_earthling 6y ago

"It's Google. Everyone uses it. The defence rests." No-one gets fired for choosing IBM.

zelphirkalt 6y ago

Well,once at umiversity I saw Chrome installed on all machines, so I asked, why they installed spyware on _university_ machines. All I got was disbelieve and ridicule. These people are not even aware of what they are doing, nor informed enough to make such decisions.

tannhaeuser 6y ago
I guess if it were a CompSci faculty, the therapy is making these actions of your uni public, then see their academic reputation asymptotically approaching zero :) Though it's not clear what Chrome sends home, and TFA is only about Chrome plugins, so lets not prematurely start a witch hunt.