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.
The best Chromium browser in terms of compatibility is of course Google Chrome.
The best in terms of privacy is Vivaldi. (and i hate Vivaldi).
Unless something’s changed recently, you can just install the Chromium browser itself. And it looks like it’s available as a Flatpak. As a bonus this will eliminate anything extra added by browser manufacturers as a potential problem.
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.
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.
I’ve just been using Edge when Firefox wont open a site. It’s installed by default and it’s just Chrome under the hood so it works. Plus, after Google’s new hostility to ad blocking I refuse to use any Chrome based browser as my default so one is as good as the other to me. They’re all just a temporary tool until I go back to using the only real web browser that I can, Mozilla Firefox.
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.
It’s Chrome, it’ll be loaded with trash no matter what. There’s no clean version of garbage that you can install.
I just discovered Thorium the other day.
Does the DDG browser report back to Google?
They have a Mac version and a Windows beta, but I don’t think there’s one for Linux available yet.
