Post #4456994
2026-08-08 15:31 UTC
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117060584641986816
Anyway, Periodic reminder that Chrome is bad software. It's a personal data collector cosplaying as a web browser.
Use other browsers, my personal recommendations are Safari (if you're on a Mac) and Vivaldi (works anywhere).
If you want something truly open source, there's multiple derivatives of Firefox with bad stuff stripped.
Orion is worth a look too (no Windows version yet), I think it's the only WebKit-based browser that runs on Linux. Also, in the future we might see browsers based on Servo (a newer open source browser rendering engine).
The gist is—there’s plenty of alternatives.
P.S. If you suggest Brave—which is run by a homophobe with Peter Thiel money—I will block you.
Replies (5)
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@JohnCrowden@mstdn.ca 2026-08-09 03:19
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io waterfox works well for me
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@_RyekDarkener_@mastodon.social 2026-08-08 15:36
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io What about LibreWolf? For minimalists?
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@freci@piaille.fr 2026-08-08 16:01
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Epiphany ("Gnome Web") is also based on WebKit, specifically WebKit-GTK
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@Thorium@social.linux.pizza 2026-08-08 16:18
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I also use chromium, the de-googled version of chrome.
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@katharta@quietzero.net 2026-08-08 16:19
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Thank you. Brendan Eich is a piece of shit, and it's wild to me that project ever even got off the ground when that was already very well known. I lose a lot of respect for anybody who still recommends Brave in current year.