are there any downsides of using Ungoogled Chromium as my main browser?
Seems perfectly "plain" with no BS pre-included like other browsers but I see people recommending Brave and stuff, why use that over this?
Are there any downsides of using Ungoogled Chromium as my main browser?
Dylan Sanchez
Justin Gomez
Ungoogled + uBlock Origin
Jackson Scott
>+ uBlock Origin
at least for a couple more months
Asher Cook
You may as well just use Brave
Jack Richardson
It doesn't support add-ons OOTB.
Adam Rivera
For me, it's Firefox Developer Edition + uBlock Origin
github.com
mozilla.org
Jackson Flores
i switched to brave after comparing it with ungoogled on a bunch of fingerprinting tests but desu im considering switching back
brave is kinda slow especially when im doing other shit on my pc at the same time as browsing. i also notice webpages getting stuck on loading far more often
Jaxson Johnson
TL:DR
is more private, but less secure.
Up for debate that it's more private if you turn everything off anyway.
Ryder Reyes
The normal Chrome has components not included in Chromium, for example it reads the computer name for Google account management
Henry Morgan
Agghh god!
I have to come and explain you raging autists the big picture again.
Google doesn't compete with the chromium forks.
Why is that?!
You get it now?
Nathaniel Adams
FUCK EVERYTHING CHROMIUM THEY CAN CHOKE ON ME NUTS!
Justin Davis
The downside is that it doesn't save your account presets
James Perry
Use Firefox or one of its forks. Anything Chromium based, including Brave, will have adblocking broken by Manifest v3. Firefox is implementing Manifest v3 but also maintaining WebRequest to maintain uBlock Origin.
Mason Powell
In Chrome you wont even be able to use Violentmonkey/Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey
Gavin Sanchez
It takes like 2 or 3 clicks to enable it though
If thats the only downside, then thats not really a downside at all
Isaiah Martin
What does Brave do that Ungoogled Chromium cant do with a few extensions though?
Jose Watson
While controversial at first, fuck uBlock.
I'm using my own private VPN with tailscale (or headscale if you're a schizo) and routing all my traffic through the pihole DNS, thus getting no ads no matter where i go, always included the second i turn on my VPN
I recomend anons. Good stuff.
Ryan Perez
Just things like anti-fingerprinting. Extensions are limited and can only affect things in minor and unique ways. It's also better to not rely on extensions for security reasons. To be honest though, any browser plus a hardened uBlock Origin is the way to go. There is really no reason to use Ungoogled Chromium over Brave.
Samuel Parker
nas coal albeit
Jackson Hughes
>including Brave, will have adblocking broken by Manifest v3
This is not true. Brave's ad blocking is done natively so won't be affected. This only affects extensions.
Elijah Gonzalez
the lack of official builds, otherwise it's decent, makes zero background connections on launch too