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People are too wussy to use waterfox or at least firefox. Just gotta have a chrome variant I guess
Everything now, except for FireFox, is a WebKit/Chrome variant.
That is mostly but not entirely true, Firefox has a few variants of its own, alternatives do exist.
I did some research into the topic not long ago, you basically want to choose an engine and from that a browser
Gecko basd (Firefox)
Goanna based (Fork of Gecko)
Servo based (very early in development/not for daily use)
Ladybird: fully independent engine and browser
Also waterfox. Can't forget about waterfox. That said, I'm daily driving Zen at this point and am extremely happy with it
Also for completion of the taxonomical reference above, Safari GNOME Web and Konqueror use the actual WebKit rendering engine that branched from KDE Plasma in 2001.
Chrome, Edge, and all the Chromium-based browsers use “Blink,” which branched from the WebKit project in 2013 and evolved separately. It’s different enough now to be considered distinct (developers supporting these browsers need no reminder) but a portion of the original properties are still shared.
Most of the time when people say “webkit” they’re referring to Google’s Blink engine, but the original WebKit project is still around and lives on in a handful of evergreen browsers that bear mention.
Thanks for compiling this so I can reference it later if Firefox ever becomes an issue
What you cannot turn off are the homophobic views of Brendan Eich, Braves CEO and co-founder.
Nor their history with intercepting/inserting affiliate links. Sure, that was for a crypto site, but nothing suggests that it can't happen with other things.
Holy shit... when the Browser itself becomes the Man-in-the-Middle attack
Yeah you sure do, it's called "don't use their product"
Companies don't stay in existince with no customers/users.
Don't use Brave https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
Sorry you got downvoted. Once again people are downvoting positive posts about Brave blindly.
It's no coincidence that the only open source browser that actually blocks ads is the one that gets downvoted all the time. Meanwhile people are dead silent when someone recommends a fully closed source chrome alternative that makes money from search tracking. 🤔
Gnome web blocks ads, and getting an adblocking extension on Firefox forks is super easy
What browser are you talking about here?
Vivaldi
But this whole discussion was started by a highly upvoted comment that says: "But why vivaldi of all things?", followed by the poster explaining in further detail why they don't think it's a good choice. That's "dead silent"?
The votes, not the replies. There's a bunch of silent lurkers on here who just browse for comments on brave to downvote them.