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Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by mistermodal@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Good if you need to use Chrome stuff

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I wish it was on flatpak/flathub, favourite chromium browser if I need to use chromium for any reason.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

While I agree it would be nice, Flatpak weakens the Chromium sandbox by stopping proper per site isolation. Chromium in Flatpak relies on the zypak server in place of proper strict isolation.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 months ago

i never knew that, i always thought chromium under flatpak was using Chromiums sandbox.
then its better to install any Chromium/electron apps outside of sandbox/flatpak which is hard on majority of distros.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh dang I didn't know

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Firefox is even more insecure as a Flatpak than Chromium. At least with Chromium using zypak it can use some Flatpak sandboxing (which is still inferior to base)

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Just use ungoogled. It's decent enough.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Doesnt come with proper fingerprinting protections or flag hardening. I am not saying ungoogled Chromium is bad, just not a proper replacement for hardened chromium browsers like Cromite or Brave. Ungoogled Chromium is a drop in replacement for Chrome, so it does nearly everything possible to stick with defaults (sans any google connections)

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

True, but it feels more barbones ngl.
On arch based Chromite isn't a problem, but on Debian or other distros yeah it is a problem.
why is it bare bones and it doesnt have the features found in chromite:
Ungoogled chromium focuses more on vanilla chromium without Google components
no built in adblock (useful after google killed manifest v3)
No fingerprint blocking
no privacy features

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I thought it stopped development a couple years ago on android.