this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
996 points (97.5% liked)
Technology
59021 readers
2976 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I recommend Ungoogled Chromium if you have to pick a Chromium derivative. It's a solid browser with the spyware removed, rather than taped over and exchanged with Microsoft's own.
Is edge based off of chrome?
Yes, at this point the choice is who gets to spy on you.
Yes, but they replaced the Google spyware with the Microsoft one (as you can easily see from the behavior when downloading Chrome)
It's based on Chromium.
So there's no spyware to be taped over?
Well, there's a bit of work to do. See Ungoogled Chromium for an example of a stripped-down Chromium.
Not an easy question. Chromuim by default has pre-made blobs of code from Google that cannot be opened/inspected. We don't know if Microsoft has replaced or excised those blobs from Edge.
Ungoogled Chromium is a community project that replaces those blobs with code we can see amd audit, but again we don't know if Microsoft builds off Ungoogled Chromium or just Chromium, because Edge itself is not open source.
Yeah