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Good luck finding a Chromium build for non Linux based systems. Not that I would be affected by that.
Are you currently using ungoogled chromium? How is it? Last time I took a look at it, it seemed sort of abandoned. Is it being maintained again?
The only thing stopping ungoogled chromium from really kicking off is an open source webstore alternative. Think Eclipse’s Open-VSX for community vscode builds.
last commit was 5 days ago, so I’d say it’s still up and running. I use it as an alternative for sites that don’t work great with firefox
Good to know, thanks! I currently use the flatpak version of my preferred browser for extra security (the sandbox could in theory limit the damage done by zerodays, also in theory limits fingerprinting because things like custom fonts are not available inside the sandbox), but unfortunately that breaks previewing/debugging local html files that reference other local files (e.g. images), so I was looking for a nice and simple browser to install natively just for that purpose.
use cromite or firefox
Cromite is on Android, Ungoogled Chromium is on desktop.
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Or librewolf / palemoon
What are these other two browsers? Please elaborate!
Librewolf is a Firefox fork designed for privacy. In comparison with Firefox it doesn’t send external calls, has 0 telemetry and uBlock is already included.
Palemoon’s peak is over, but still has adventage over FF or Chrome. Less vulnerabilities, XUL add-ons support, UI is hit or miss but it can use GTK2 instead of 3, more customizability, low memory usage and smaller codebase.
Which still is based on Firefox, like down if other great derivatives. All of those are great, and mostly up to personal preference.
The important step is to get people out of the chromium universe in the first place. Sadly, Google puts their poison in at the well (=chromium), so a lot of formerly fantastic chromium-based secure and private browsers are now failing.
I agree with the sentiment, but acktshually… https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html
That’s the not-spyware part of it.
I tried to download Chromium but it’s a mess. No way a regular user will be able to download and install it. The will to do it will fade pretty quickly
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I go to the software center, search chromuim, click install. Its that easy for Linux mint users
It’s that easy on Windows as well, depending on the package manager you prefer the commands are
Winget (native)
winget install -e --id Hibbiki.Chromium
Chocolatey (third party)
choco install chromium-stable
Winget is awesome! It’s nice to see Microsoft finally focusing on adding basic quality-of-life features to their OS. First there was Windows Terminal, then proper bash support with WSL, and now package management with Winget! To be fair, it’s not 100% there yet. Tried installing ffmpeg with winget recently, and it took like three times longer than apt-get would have. But hey, better than downloading EXE’s from some random website. Really excited for what they’ll add next. Who knows, maybe Windows will finally be a viable desktop OS some day!
I prefer my pacman being able to cd to a directory and install there rather than winget’s “-location direct path” but yeah Linux is faster and better for tech illiterate people like myself
Linux is faster and better for tech illiterate people like myself
For real tho, I could never come up with a good reason why I choose Linux over windows. But recently I tried Windows 11, and that finally made me understand. What are sticky keys? Why are you telling me the exchange rate of EUR to USD right now? Why do I need to put
.\in front of my username when signing in? Why can’t you just tell me that you want TPM and UEFI boot enabled instead of cryptically saying that my hardware is incompatible even though it is? There’s just too much crap going on for a dumb fuck like me to understand. I would like one boring linux desktop experience that hasn’t changed since 2003 please.
Flatpak (and flathub.org) has been a lifesaver for this, I use Ungoogled Chromium. Of course only for the few broken shitty websites that I’m forced to use
Firefox is better anyways
Firefox doesn’t fucking work with my daughter’s online school. This is a national school that multiple states are adopting as a state online school (meaning it is a public school and we don’t have to pay tuition) and we have to use Chrome because I can’t get it to work in Firefox and I hate Edge. Even worse, a bunch of materials from the school either don’t mention which browser to use or specifically say you can use either Firefox or Chrome. I spent like half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn’t working. I did updates, resets, anything I could think of, until my wife texted me and said maybe it has to be in Chrome. And yep, that worked.
Of course, the school is run by Pearson, and they’re evil, so they probably have a deal with Google anyway.
Ugh, Pearson’s the worst. Have you tried a user agent switcher? I seem to recall that working when I last had to deal with their crap.
I don’t know anything about that. Can you point me to a guide?
You can get browser extensions that change your user agent string, which websites use to fingerprint you. So you’re just spoofing a different browser/OS. I use this one.
Thanks so much! I will check it out.
Damn, that sucks. I have always been keeping my school/university stuff in a separate browser, so maybe your daughter can use something like Ungoogled Chromium for school and Firefox for everything else.
I’ll look into it eventually, but we had to do this at the last minute because we had to get school started and she gets annoyed when I try to do anything on the notebook while she’s around.
I’m happy with Safari but yeah Firefox is my other choice
Replace the icon?
Why is Elmo standing in for Cookie Monster?
Huh? Wasn’t this always how this template looked like? I found it by ducking (is that what we call it?) “elmo cocaine meme template”, meanwhile “coockie monster cocaine meme template” returns nothing relevant…
EDIT: Are you making a joke about cookies that I am too dumb to understand?
I’ve never seen the meme before, my bad. I thought it was supposed to be cookie monster munching, not Elmo snorting!
Oh haha no worries. I myself have never watched a ful episode of whatever show these characters are from (Sesame street? was that what it was called?) so I thought you were referencing some lore I didn’t know haha
I think it’s because the chrome and chromium icons are circles, like cookies. You also put a “bite mark” in the chrome icon, as if bit off like a cookie.
Well they marketed it heavily and this is the result.
Also no one is a loser for using a piece of software.
Unless it’s Chrome or Windows. According to some folks, you might as well end it all now.
Or use Firefox, a browser not made by the same guys who want to create a monopoly on web browsers.
Don’t they receive millions from Google specifically?
Yeah, but they do a lot of good stuff for the open internet, and they respect user freedom and privacy. Unlike Google, they allow you to use proper adblockers and don’t want to screw you over with this MV3 bullshit.
when i was in high school chrome had lots of school restrictions but chromium didnt. life saver for me, guy who did nothing in high school
Schools IT departments all over the world are doing society a massive favor by indirectly teaching children how to bypass censorship. 80% of what I know about IP and NAT came from finding different ways to bypass my school’s firewall haha
one of my ways of bypassing the schools block on reddit was so stupidly easy
ssl error comes up trying to go to reddit. delete ssl from the link bar (cant remember its name) and boom reddit works
Firefox logo looks better anyway.
And the browser is better than this Chromium bullshit
Used to, anyway.
Still does, though I agree I liked the old one better.
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Downvote for “literally”. Better adverbs please?
The word is actually correct in this case, though. Chromium is, in every way that matters, literally (as in exactly, completely, utterly, fully, in actuality, totally) the same as Chrome.
With the exception, as mentioned above, of one key detail: the removal of Google spyware and adware.
Yes, that’s what the meme says. …I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here.
Wtf is wrong with you
Is “literally” an adverb? I always though that adverbs were like adjectives but used for verbs (actions). Like “quickly” or “slowly”. Where is the action in a sentence like “It’s literally the same browser”? Is it an adverb for the “is” (to be) auxiliary verb? srry english not my first language
Nice job on the half chrome logo on the second panel
Thank you! You noticed! I like to put that extra little bit of effort into my memes to make them stand out
Green Is My Pepper 👌
I love how the Chrome logo is literally a camera shutter looking at you, with Chromium the same but in camo. Really gets the message across.
