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Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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You could always switch to Firefox and use something like fastmail or protonmail. Did that a year ago, and actually it works better on mobile imo

Switching email providers is of little use for privacy from Google when everyone you correspond with is also using Google.

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My preference for a well supported Chromium-based browser that's not Chrome would be to use one of the "Blink" based browsers: https://vivaldi.com https://brave.com https://www.opera.com Opera was purchased by a Chinese consortium, I'm not a fan of Brave's hijacking of ad spaces so my preference is currently vivaldi - which was founded by co-founder and former CEO of Opera and has been adding new innovative features…

I believe Brave is the only one of these released under a free software license.

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Whatever monetization strategy Websites choose to fund their content is up to them. If ads are the best way to support free content then that should be their choice.

Sure. And it’s my choice to block them. Brave actually offers a way to pay for content, if I understand it correctly.

Sure, you can technically starve them of micro ad revenue if you want, but if you're not going to abide by Content creators implicit contract of having their content served with supporting ads then IMO it's best for all involved that you either subscribe for ad-free content directly from them or just stop consuming their content altogether.

There are humans on the other side producing that content, they have as much right for being compensated for their efforts as we do.

Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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My preference for a well supported Chromium-based browser that's not Chrome would be to use one of the "Blink" based browsers: https://vivaldi.com https://brave.com https://www.opera.com Opera was purchased by a Chinese consortium, I'm not a fan of Brave's hijacking of ad spaces so my preference is currently vivaldi - which was founded by co-founder and former CEO of Opera and has been adding new innovative features…

Just installed Vivaldi. Wow. Thanks.

You can hold shift to select multiple tabs and then do all these operations, like mute them all, group them, display them tiled... and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface.

It feels like the last time there was a big feature competition between all the browsers.

Feature snapshots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4wyvKMRVeY&list=PL72e6dBabY...

Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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>Just bite the bullet and run the 2h compilation process yourself. I don't think that's the best use of everyone's time or energy. Not to mention, it may be more error prone, or even insecure depending on what your base system is like. And you'll have to track updates. It seems like chromium is problematic to build in general. Debian hasn't marked it as reproducible. It is also not clear if it is possible to build it…

> Various efforts to include chromium or derivatives in Fdroid have failed. Fixed[1] in rattlesnakeos-stack[2] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RattlesnakeOS/comments/953dfj/v0025... [2] "A cross platform tool that provisions all of the AWS infrastructure required to build your own privacy focused Android OS on a continuous basis with OTA updates." https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack

Heh, I wonder how much that costs. You certainly don't want to be building the whole Android tree on the free tier.

Edit: that's really well done - https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack#how-much-does-t...

Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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Because the focus on decoupling from Google, etc is to prevent control of larger corporations and from data intrusion. Mobile is a huge facet of search/browsing now. If you are only decoupling 50% of web usage, you aren't making much of a dent on the behemoths to change their behavior.

Then I really don't get it, Safari is the most dominant browser on iOS and on Android you can use whatever you want - so you never have to use Chrome anywhere.

I'm not sure what you don't get. It's not just about Chrome. Decoupling Google services from Chromium is more than about Chrome itself, it's a backlash against Google and data collection at large. You could just promote Firefox instead of Vivaldi, but you didn't. Why not? I assume because you like choice...and that choice should continue to extend on mobile platforms.

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My preference for a well supported Chromium-based browser that's not Chrome would be to use one of the "Blink" based browsers: https://vivaldi.com https://brave.com https://www.opera.com Opera was purchased by a Chinese consortium, I'm not a fan of Brave's hijacking of ad spaces so my preference is currently vivaldi - which was founded by co-founder and former CEO of Opera and has been adding new innovative features…

> I'm not a fan of Brave's hijacking of ad spaces so my preference is currently vivaldi I'm not affiliated with Brave, but IIRC that requires opt-in from both the owner of the user AND the website. So it seems like a bit of a stretch to call it hijacking, when the website, ads are being "hijacked" from needs to opt-in to this.

It blocks ads by default and from all I've read replaces it with their own against publishers wishes:

https://www.businessinsider.com/newspaper-publishers-send-ce...

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/brave-software-publishers-resp...

Where is the opt-in from the website who are getting their ads blocked/replaced?

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Note that Vivaldi is closed source. If you're looking for open source only, consider Firefox.

Vivaldi is publishing its source at: https://vivaldi.com/source/ Its CEO announced more details about their source code: https://jon.vivaldi.net/a-few-words-about-open-source-vivald...

They’re publishing their Blink changes under the same terms as Blink.

Their UI code is source-available proprietary software.

Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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Note that Vivaldi is closed source. If you're looking for open source only, consider Firefox.

Vivaldi is publishing its source at: https://vivaldi.com/source/ Its CEO announced more details about their source code: https://jon.vivaldi.net/a-few-words-about-open-source-vivald...

> In addition, all of our UI code (included in normal packages) is written in plain, readable text. This means that all parts of Vivaldi are full audit-able and open from that perspective.

I.E. not downloadable. That's neither open nor open-source.

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