hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.world

I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.

I wrote an email service: port87.com

I write free software: github.com/sciactive

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I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?

I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

hperrin,

Yes. I’ve considered that, but does it still report back to Google? Even though that majority of what I visit will be “http://127.0.0.1:8080”, I’d still rather not be spied on by Google.

hperrin, (edited )

I haven’t tried Vivaldi. Is it available on Linux?

Edit: Looks like they do with both .deb and .rpm packages. They’re not on Flatpak, but the rpm would work for me on Fedora.

hperrin,

Edge isn’t installed by default on any of the computers I use, and I’m not a huge fan of all the junk they put in it.

Also I just downloaded it on Mac and it’s a .pkg file, so that really sets off alarm bells.

hperrin,

I though that was Linux only, but I just looked it up and it is also available on Mac.

It’s not available on Windows, but I’m ok with that.

I will add that to the list to try out.

hperrin,

Now this looks promising! The list of improvements and patches looks really nice.

hperrin,

I would assume not, but isn’t that a mobile only browser?

hperrin,

I didn’t know that! Awesome! I hope there’s a Linux version soon, then I’ll probably switch to it.

hperrin,

100% truth.

hperrin,

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-AA1iIl9q

theverge.com/…/brave-browser-affiliate-links-cryp…

www.searchenginejournal.com/…/491854/

It’s like every year or so Brave does something new and shittier.

hperrin,

Their latest thing that pushed me to look for a new testing browser is installing a system wide VPN on your computer without your consent.

hperrin,

I don’t see a Mac build. Are they planning to support Mac?

hperrin,

I don’t like Google trackers.

hperrin, (edited )

Yes. www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/

But not nearly as many tracking mechanisms as Chrome, because it lacks API keys for some services. By default, it will still send the URL of every page you visit to Google, though. At least that’s my understanding, reading their privacy policy.

But it also doesn’t update itself, doesn’t seem to have a working Mac build (the one on their website doesn’t launch), and doesn’t sync (which I can live without, but end-to-end encrypted sync is nice).

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