Chromium is open source, you can inspect the source code and build it yourself. It’s not spyware by default.
If you’re going to try to get people to switch to Firefox, give them a legit reason.
Also, Firefox itself has telemetry that some would say is spyware. Not to mention, Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff themselves. Recent one is enforcing blocking of extensions on specific domains without user’s intervention and picking out their own preferred extensions. (https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html)
Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff themselves. Recent one is enforcing blocking of extensions on specific domains without user’s intervention and picking out their own preferred extensions. (lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html)
Another case of FUD, mozilla has not done anything yet, if you look at extensions.quarantinedDomains.list in about:config, you can see that the blocklist is empty, the functionality is there, but its not being enforced. And it’s entirely configurable, as with anything on firefox, if you don’t want it, simply set the option to False in about:config.
And this is a good thing, chromium’s had a more extensive version of this feature for years. Where you can for e.g restrict those random netflix watch party extensions i keep seeing popup as malware, to just netflix.com, so if it did end up being malicious, it’d just compromise your netflix account and nothing more. Or coupon extensions like honey, to just amazon/ebay, for privacy reasons.
It looks like firefox 116 will have per addon toggles to exempt them from the quarantined domain list, but where this feature falls short compared to on chromium is that afaik it only blocks addons installed outside of the mozilla addon store, and i don’t see any mentions to individual site controls per addon, rather than one global blocklist.
Just stop using Brave and switch to Firefox. Chromium is spyware.
i get moving to firefox in order to not fuel the chromium monopoly, but saying:
is not true, the whole point of browsers like brave is to remove any tracking/phoning home to google.
Chromium is open source, you can inspect the source code and build it yourself. It’s not spyware by default.
If you’re going to try to get people to switch to Firefox, give them a legit reason.
Also, Firefox itself has telemetry that some would say is spyware. Not to mention, Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff themselves. Recent one is enforcing blocking of extensions on specific domains without user’s intervention and picking out their own preferred extensions. (https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html)
Another case of FUD, mozilla has not done anything yet, if you look at
extensions.quarantinedDomains.listinabout:config, you can see that the blocklist is empty, the functionality is there, but its not being enforced. And it’s entirely configurable, as with anything on firefox, if you don’t want it, simply set the option toFalseinabout:config.And this is a good thing, chromium’s had a more extensive version of this feature for years. Where you can for e.g restrict those random netflix watch party extensions i keep seeing popup as malware, to just netflix.com, so if it did end up being malicious, it’d just compromise your netflix account and nothing more. Or coupon extensions like honey, to just amazon/ebay, for privacy reasons.
It looks like firefox 116 will have per addon toggles to exempt them from the quarantined domain list, but where this feature falls short compared to on chromium is that afaik it only blocks addons installed outside of the mozilla addon store, and i don’t see any mentions to individual site controls per addon, rather than one global blocklist.