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Just one more reason to never use Chrome. Their removal of MV2 to prevent UBlock Origin from working is another.
by anonymousiam 1mo ago
Just one more reason to never use Chrome. Their removal of MV2 to prevent UBlock Origin from working is another.
- lta 1mo agoIf we needed any more.
- Barbing 1mo agoOf all the reasons to use non-Chromium browsers whenever possible(!), this isn’t really on the list.
- lima 1mo agoWhich browser has a better security track record?
- Cider9986 1mo agoVanadium makes improvements on Chromium. https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium
- esseph 1mo agoRight, but it's value-add on a derivative, not its own standalone engine.
- StilesCrisis 1mo agoMost of those are just changing flags, not really unique development. Like "disable JIT" is a Chromium flag. "Zero-init everything" is a Clang flag.
- LiamPowell 1mo agoIt's not even a build flag, it's a setting that you can just go and enable in Chrome's own settings menu (chrome://settings/content/v8).
- p-e-w 1mo agoFirefox with uBlock Origin. It’s astonishing how many exploits uBO stops before they ever reach your browser engine. It’s the antivirus of the 2020s.
- Alifatisk 1mo agoI suggest Zen browser (fork of FF), it feels closer to chrome.
- ZiiS 1mo agoIn a good way?
- Alifatisk 29d agoYes, in my opinion. I know a couple of people who actually jumped from Chrome to Zen because of it. In their mind, Firefox is something from the past and rough around the edges. Zen gave new attraction to FF. I am all for any opportunity to disrupt the Chrome monopoly we currently have.
- Barbing 1mo agoI hear about Zen. Random q: It can’t trick Canva into letting you use the color picker, or otherwise enable it, can it - if someone happens to know? (What a dumb feature to be locked to the Googlesphere.)
- Alifatisk 29d agoI don’t know honestly.
- aleksandrm 1mo agoWhat does it mean "closer to chrome"?
- Alifatisk 29d ago
- bawolff 1mo agoDespite what people are saying here, chrome has a really excellent track record. Nobody is perfect. Switching just because chrome got exploited one time will likely result in you switching to something worse. If you're paranoid, disable JIT.
- dwattttt 1mo agoOr disable JS altogether, and enjoy many sites working much quicker. Many others fail & need to be selectively allowed, but it's been worth it.
- doublerabbit 1mo agoIf by quicker you mean blank content, I'll agree, it is worth it.
- jacquesm 1mo agoIt's not about switching because chrome got exploited one time, it's about switching not to reward unethical behavior.
- bawolff 29d agowell one someone posts on an article about an exploit in chrome saying that the exploit is a reason to switch, i think its fair to say its not about "not reward[ing] unethical behaviour"
- fidotron 1mo agoChrome product management is horrible. Chrome software engineering is some of the best ever done. (And no, I don't use it except for testing).
- noir_lord 1mo agoI don’t disagree, two or more things can be true at once. That said I still use Firefox for other reasons. I simply don’t trust google, I don’t trust Mozilla either but I do trust them more than Google and you do kinda have to have a browser to function in the modern world.
- StilesCrisis 1mo agoOh, right, because other browsers never have bugs.
- paulpauper 1mo agochrome has more bugs, not necessarily because it's less secure, but its popularity makes it a bigger target, so more bugs are found
- armadyl 1mo agoThis is like saying never use seatbelts because people still die in car accidents. Chromium is still far superior on the security front than any other browser.