Does anyone know anything about it? Any thoughts worth sharing? Is it trustworthy?

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          11 months ago

          Don’t even get me started. I’ve always hated Apple for this kind of stuff, and now they’re making Android even worse, piece by piece.

          And given that society is dependent on phones, we’re all fucked. I don’t know if a Linux phone can do much given how it’s mostly non capitalistic. I wish though. But adoption-wise I don’t know if it could be a contender anyway. I’m not well-versed in it, but I’m just assuming the worst since the world is falling apart right now and my hope gland needs surgery. 😭

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    11 months ago

    Seems okay, it is trustworthy but it’s basically just a more private degoogled chromium with some extra features.

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    I have concerns.

    Best privacy

    What does “best” mean here? Privacy is binary: either something is private, and only you decide who has access to it, or it isn’t.

    and unbiased ad-blocking

    Uh-oh. That’s a red flag. When a company makes a big deal out of being unbiased about something that isn’t inherently biased to begin with, I just automatically assume right-wing.

    by default.

    And how easy is it to change that default if you don’t like it? Or if YouTube kills ad blocking in it? No thanks, I’d prefer it be an extension, thanks.

    Handy features like native !bangs

    Custom search with extra characters. Firefox has had it for over a decade, and Chrome has had it for a while too.

    and split view.

    Pretty sure this has been in several browsers recently, too.

    No adware,

    Thanks, that’s…kind of the bare minimum in a browser?

    no bloat,

    Degoogled is already that for Chromium, if that’s really what you want. There are several Firefox forks that pull out a bunch of stuff and make it leaner, too.

    no noise.

    Bold move disabling the sound API. Respect. /s

    People-first

    Which people? Ok, this is easy to say, but essentially meaningless.

    and fully open source.

    Isn’t BSD a sharealike license? So they can’t not. Still, props to them.

    At the end of the day, I think I’d still prefer a Gecko browser, or Degoogled if I absolutely had to use Chromium.

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    11 months ago

    This is now the second post about this chrome browser in the last few weeks. Marketing team at Helium must really be scraping the bottom of the ideas barrel.

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      11 months ago

      While people can hardern chromium themselves, some people don’t want to spend time learning and configure it. So to make privacy more accessible and less tedious. Things like this and LibreWolf is born