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Does anyone know how good Epiphany (GNOME Web) is from a privacy/security POV compared to Firefox/Chromium?

• brnt 5y ago
  They use WebKit. So I guess roughly on par with Safari, albeit with a (significant?) delay.
  • linopolus 5y ago
    A browser and its privacy is much more than the engine. You could take webkit and make the most spying browser ever out of it. Most of what Safari does for privacy resides outside the engine itself.
    • brnt 5y ago
      Although I'm not a huge Gnome fan, I don't think they are predatory like that. AFAIK it's just a then wrapper around upstream tarballs.
      • linopolus 5y ago
        I didn’t mean to say Epiphany actually is invasive. Just that the engine a browser uses doesn’t tell anything about privacy at all.
  • _kbh_ 5y ago
    Depending on that delay, it could be a significant security problem. A known (n-day) vulnerability is still very useful when software has a lag in updating there components.