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.
in this case, this just means they are using ublock origin with default filter lists. my guess for their wording is that they are not doing something like brave (you partially see ads) or like edge and other chromes which use some very light form of adblocking, which ofcourse does not work on their websites.
I’d prefer it be an extension
it is. they are shipping the manifest v2 (the full version) of ublock oob.
Isn’t BSD a sharealike license? So they can’t not
no. bsd (i think chrome is 3 clause, but not sure) is a just as open license like mit or gpl (minus the copyleft in gpl). and the core(ish) bits of chrome are lgpl (not sure. i am taliking about blink).
I have concerns.
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.
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.
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.
Custom search with extra characters. Firefox has had it for over a decade, and Chrome has had it for a while too.
Pretty sure this has been in several browsers recently, too.
Thanks, that’s…kind of the bare minimum in a browser?
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.
Bold move disabling the sound API. Respect. /s
Which people? Ok, this is easy to say, but essentially meaningless.
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.
in this case, this just means they are using ublock origin with default filter lists. my guess for their wording is that they are not doing something like brave (you partially see ads) or like edge and other chromes which use some very light form of adblocking, which ofcourse does not work on their websites.
it is. they are shipping the manifest v2 (the full version) of ublock oob.
no. bsd (i think chrome is 3 clause, but not sure) is a just as open license like mit or gpl (minus the copyleft in gpl). and the core(ish) bits of chrome are lgpl (not sure. i am taliking about blink).