Does it matter if you use a Chromium browser that isn’t Chrome itself? I know Google has a large influence in Chromium development, but presumably they can’t just stick tracking in other Chromium based browsers, can they? I just really like Vivaldi.
Pretty sure Chromium has Google tracking, you have to use ungoogled-chromium, and hope they did a good job ungoogling. I don’t know how Chromium based browsers deal with Chromium’s built in tracking…
Chromium browsers don’t allow extensions (uBlock Origin being the best) to block ads as effectively due to their implementation of Manifest V3. The Firefox implementation doesn’t share that limitation.
This may be true, but I’ve seen basically zero ads in Vivaldi with uBlock Origin installed. However, perhaps there are issues I’m just not noticing, or problems caused by having uBlock active that don’t occur in Firefox.
Brave is built on Chromium, but has zero google telemetry and allows you to opt out of every single cookie, tracker, and javascript element at your whim or by standard. The only downside is that the “homescreen” is usually an ad for crypto, but 50% of the time it’s a nice photo.
Does it matter if you use a Chromium browser that isn’t Chrome itself? I know Google has a large influence in Chromium development, but presumably they can’t just stick tracking in other Chromium based browsers, can they? I just really like Vivaldi.
Pretty sure Chromium has Google tracking, you have to use ungoogled-chromium, and hope they did a good job ungoogling. I don’t know how Chromium based browsers deal with Chromium’s built in tracking…
Chromium browsers don’t allow extensions (uBlock Origin being the best) to block ads as effectively due to their implementation of Manifest V3. The Firefox implementation doesn’t share that limitation.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/
I remember reading about that… Do Chromium users live in a land without ad blockers? How?! Why?!
This may be true, but I’ve seen basically zero ads in Vivaldi with uBlock Origin installed. However, perhaps there are issues I’m just not noticing, or problems caused by having uBlock active that don’t occur in Firefox.
Well… there exists the Ungoogled Chromium, so it’s questionable
Brave is built on Chromium, but has zero google telemetry and allows you to opt out of every single cookie, tracker, and javascript element at your whim or by standard. The only downside is that the “homescreen” is usually an ad for crypto, but 50% of the time it’s a nice photo.