I post this just to show how I wanted to reply to the last post in the conversation from the screenshot, but I couldn't because @Azarilh blocked me.

“I admit this
If this would happen (which I really hope will not) I will stay with #VivaldiBrowser for as much as it would be able to survive, and then move to a #GeckoBrowserEngine-based #browser.
After all, #Chromium doesn't invade my #privacy, as #Bing, #Google, #Yahoo etc. do.”

Am I wrong?

#VivaldiBrowser Has a good #privacypolicy, is #European, and is 95% #FOSS. It removes the #googlecrap from the #Chromium code before using it in their #browser
Also, it lets adding blocking sources and tweaking them, which is a must-have since their ad blocking is no the greatest, THB.

It has an overall good balance between privacy and functionality, and this is why I believe it should be added in the list.

vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-diffe…

vivaldi.com/blog/technology/wh….

Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome | Vivaldi

What should you make of the fact that Vivaldi shares its engine with Google Chrome?

^{Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)}

Chromium now has initial, experimental support for the xdg-session-management #wayland protocol, which will start shipping in canary channel in the coming days. I've implemented and tested it against Mutter 48, the only compositor supporting it atm - also experimentally - since version 47.

Quick demo at youtu.be/OG9ZLXzlwkQ

#chromium #wayland #linux #gnome #opensource #foss

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

arstechnica.com/google/2025/03…

#google #chrome #googlechrome #chromium #android

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”…

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

In the wake of a certain ad-funded browser company bundling adtech into its browser yet again, some people have been recommending Ungoogled-Chromium (UGC). I think it’s fine to recommend UGC with caveats, such as the fact that it disables component updates that include:

• Certificate revocation. Chromium uses downloaded CRLSets for revocation; it does not support OCSP.
• Out of band security patches. When browser components have exploits in the wild, they need to be patched ASAP; updating billions of installations within time-frames measured in hours often means restartless out-of-band updates.
• Out of band certificate bundle updates.

If you assume Google uses its component update server logs maliciously, you may wish to consider a fork that still offers component updates provided by a different party’s servers.

UGC disabled mDNS at one point. This exposed local IP addresses over WebRTC for years, but they seem to have shipped a fix in May 2023 to disable non-proxied UDP.

UGC also disables the Chrome Web Store in favor of installing extensions out of band. Make sure you regularly update your extensions installed out-of-band, since UGC won’t do it on its own. Some scripts and a special extension re-implement some of this functionality.

Overall, UGC is still safer than QtWebEngine despite making heavy compromises to security for privacy (though I can’t see how either benefited from disabling mDNS: I’m not aware of threat models under which revealing a local IP to every application is preferable to revealing it to just Google). Running UGC is fine if you understand these trade-offs and have accounted for them. I use it in headless mode to run accessibility and performance tests.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Chromium #Chrome

Seirdy’s Home

My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

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My #FOSDEM presentation about #Wayland video offloading is online. If you are interested, you can watch it here: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…

I'm happy about feedback, both on the technical side as well as how I can improve doing presentations :)

#FOSDEM2024 #GNOME #gtk #Collabora #GStreamer #sway #kde #Chromium #mpv

I'll also be at #fosdem and do a short talk about #Wayland video offloading related stuff I've been posting about, featuring #gtk4, #gstreamer, #Chromium #gnomeshell and #weston

fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…

See you there!

#Collabora #fosdem2024 #gnome #gnomeonrails

FOSDEM 2024 - The state of video offloading on the Linux Desktop

^fosdem.org

Update regarding #wayland zero-copy video playback (using hardware planes): with a few small patches it works with #Chromium, both with #vaapi (Intel/AMD) and #v4l2 stateless.

Here a short video using a #rk3399 - the #PINE64 #PinebookPro - playing a 4k 60fps video - only possible with hardware plane offloading. Playback is *almost* smooth already (~50fps), the goal is to catch up with #GStreamer where we get stable 60.

I hope this will all get upstreamed in the coming months.

Earlier this year we got into a surprising and somewhat annoying struggle with Web browser sandboxing failures related to our "web apps shared in a chat" feature. After much background work we released the hardened Delta Chat 1.36 series, also addressing a dedicated fourth independent security audit, and can finally share more of what was going on behind the scenes delta.chat/en/2023-05-22-webxd…

#chromium #deltachat #security #webxdc

Delta Chat: Bringing E2E privacy to the Web: 4th security audit 😅

Delta Chat’s “web apps shared in a chat” come with a unique privacy promise but in January it was shown to be compromised. We got into a surprising struggle with Web browser sandboxing issues that ...

^delta.chat

#Chromium landed support for fractional scaling on #Wayland a couple of days ago. It was reverted again today. Reason for revert: This change completely broke Chromium Ozone/Wayland on compositors that support fractional-scale-v1.

Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.

Anyhow, here's a working initial patch for #Firefox:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

⚠️ Avoid #Chromium-based browsers: Websites can detect what addons are installed by fetching their web-accessible resources. Try yourself: z0ccc.github.io/extension-fing…

This is yet another possible way of #tracking users all across the internet. However, there's a simple solution: Just use #Firefox.

Since the IDs of Firefox extensions are unique for every user, it is not possible to know or guess the addresses of their web-accessible resources.

Extension Fingerprints

Check how trackable you are based on your browser extensions.

^{z0ccc.github.io}

💡 New quick post about how I set up Ungoogled Chromium for web dev testing purposes.

minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/u…

#chromium #degoogle #webdev

Ungoogled Chromium – Minutes to Midnight Sound and Web Designer

A brief list of steps taken to install and properly configure Ungoogled Chromium for pure web development testing purposes on macOS.

^{Simone Silvestroni (Minutes to Midnight)}