With chromium being poisoned last year and Mozilla trying to diversify away from Firefox, I’m starting to wonder what browser I should be using in the near future. So I’d really like to hear some opinions on arc browser!
Arc is Chromium based. In other words, you’re still using Chrome/Chromium.
Firefox and Safari are the only two browsers (seemingly) left on the market with their own rendering engines. (Gecko and WebKit respectively)
So while things are fucking bad at Mozilla, it’s important to try to get people to use Firefox so market share will increase enough that Mozilla won’t want to diversify away from Firefox. I know that’s living on hopes and dreams, but that’s better than just rolling over and letting Google take over the modern world-wide web.
Here’s a random article on the topic to get you started.
Basically Google is destroying anonymous web browsing by embedding finger printing in chromium. Certain trusted servers will track your identity and report whether or not it trusts you.
It’s actually very similar to how Single Sign On and identity providers work. Except you aren’t choosing to use it with a “login with Facebook” or similar button. It’s forced on you by the browser
This article only mentions Chrome, not Chromium. So I looked it up and found this:
“Web Environment Integrity (WEI) is an abandoned API proposal previously under development for Google Chrome.[1] A Web Environment Integrity prototype existed in Chromium,[2][3] but was removed in November 2023 after extensive criticism by many tech groups.[4]”
With chromium being poisoned last year and Mozilla trying to diversify away from Firefox, I’m starting to wonder what browser I should be using in the near future. So I’d really like to hear some opinions on arc browser!
EDIT: Aaand it’s chromium
Arc is Chromium based. In other words, you’re still using Chrome/Chromium.
Firefox and Safari are the only two browsers (seemingly) left on the market with their own rendering engines. (Gecko and WebKit respectively)
So while things are fucking bad at Mozilla, it’s important to try to get people to use Firefox so market share will increase enough that Mozilla won’t want to diversify away from Firefox. I know that’s living on hopes and dreams, but that’s better than just rolling over and letting Google take over the modern world-wide web.
You forgot about epiphany! /s
That’s WebKit… so basically Safari lol
Use curl like a chad
Lynx is where it’s at.
Only if you use it in emacs.
Can you please expand on that? I don’t use chromium except when I have compat tests to run but still curious.
Here’s a random article on the topic to get you started.
Basically Google is destroying anonymous web browsing by embedding finger printing in chromium. Certain trusted servers will track your identity and report whether or not it trusts you.
It’s actually very similar to how Single Sign On and identity providers work. Except you aren’t choosing to use it with a “login with Facebook” or similar button. It’s forced on you by the browser
This article only mentions Chrome, not Chromium. So I looked it up and found this:
“Web Environment Integrity (WEI) is an abandoned API proposal previously under development for Google Chrome.[1] A Web Environment Integrity prototype existed in Chromium,[2][3] but was removed in November 2023 after extensive criticism by many tech groups.[4]”
Oh really??? I wonder if there’s hope for chrome after all. Though I’m still sticking with Firefox 🙂
https://privacytests.org/
PS for all the haters of open source facts : Even librewolf references this site for browser testing.
https://librewolf.net/docs/testing/