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Bromite is not a Google service. It's a false precedence that anything open source from a corporation is a free service and makes their anti-privacy stance good

Bromite is not a Google service. It's a false precedence that anything open source from a corporation is a free service and makes their anti-privacy stance good. That's like saying a criminal is a good guy because he did 50 hours of charity work after murdering 2 people.

westurner 4y ago
You can use the Chromium source code that Google contributes to, to browse the internet with and without ads and trackers that use obvious domain names: Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Bromite, ungoogled-chromium, Brave, Chrome. You choose whether to shop at Google. Google buying the default search engine position in browsers does not prevent users from changing the - possibly OpenSearch - browser search engine to DuckDuckGo or Ecosia. You can force an address bar entry to a.tld/search=?${query} search w/: Ctrl-L ?${query} ?how to change the default search engine ?how to block ads & trackers in {browser name} ?how to provide free search queries on a free search engine and have positive revenue after years of debt obligations to fairly build market share You can choose to take their free s and search elsewhere, eh? Why would they now get out of paying for Firefox development using a revenue model, too? (Competitors can and do use e.g. google/bazel the open source clone of google/blaze, which is what Chromium builds were built with before gn. Here's Chromium/BUILD.bazel, for example: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/v8/v8.git/+/master:BUILD.bazel https://source.chromium.org/chromium/v8/v8.git/+/master:BUIL... ) Android (and /e/ and LineageOS) do allow you to install browsers other than the Chrome WebView and Chrome. Is it possible to install anything other than Safari (WebKit) on iOS devices? Maybe from another software repository like F-droid? Hopefully current downstream releases with signed manifests and SafetyNet scanning uploaded apps

westurner 4y ago

You can use the Chromium source code that Google contributes to, to browse the internet with and without ads and trackers that use obvious domain names: Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Bromite, ungoogled-chromium, Brave, Chrome. You choose whether to shop at Google. Google buying the default search engine position in browsers does not prevent users from changing the - possibly OpenSearch - browser search engine to DuckDuckGo or Ecosia. You can force an address bar entry to a.tld/search=?${query} search w/: Ctrl-L ?${query} ?how to change the default search engine ?how to block ads & trackers in {browser name} ?how to provide free search queries on a free search engine and have positive revenue after years of debt obligations to fairly build market share You can choose to take their free s and search elsewhere, eh? Why would they now get out of paying for Firefox development using a revenue model, too? (Competitors can and do use e.g. google/bazel the open source clone of google/blaze, which is what Chromium builds were built with before gn. Here's Chromium/BUILD.bazel, for example: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/v8/v8.git/+/master:BUILD.bazel https://source.chromium.org/chromium/v8/v8.git/+/master:BUIL... ) Android (and /e/ and LineageOS) do allow you to install browsers other than the Chrome WebView and Chrome. Is it possible to install anything other than Safari (WebKit) on iOS devices? Maybe from another software repository like F-droid? Hopefully current downstream releases with signed manifests and SafetyNet scanning uploaded apps