Privacy

32309 readers

455 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Librewolf but like... for chromium? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by spez to c/[email protected]

79 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don't change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I've been using Thorium recently with no issues. Before I was using Vivaldi.

Edit, Firefox is my main browser. Thorium is used as an alt for the 2 websites that don't work in Firefox.

Edit 2; seems the developer of Thorium has made some err questionable choices. Not with the browser itself, but a mild furry nsfw easter egg, and a link to some site talking about their beliefs against a common medical procedure performed on baby boys. I have not seen either for myself as they have both been removed as the browser gained a sudden spike in popularity.

[–] spez 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thorium would be good but it probably has too few contributors

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

And it is also outdated and not privacy optimised (which seems way less documented than with Firefox). Not sure if appimages even have sandbox or if that is broken too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Highly advise against Chromium, see different comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-dhc_SWBk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=tR-dhc_SWBk

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.