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by zelly 2140 days ago
It's quite usable as-is. Not sure why it hasn't gotten much attention. It's more privacy oriented than Firefox and is faster than Firefox. I have been using it on desktop Linux for years. I tried Brave and Firefox, but they both have bloat and phone home to someone by default, unlike UG. For all the time it takes to argue back and forth about which browser should take over next, you could have installed UG and moved on with life.
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It's Google code, so it cannot be trusted and should be assumed to be malicious. Calling it more privacy focused than Firefox is just absurd.
Firefox has a lot of telemetry built into the default install. It has Pocket, everything you type into the search bar gets sent to Google by default, phones home to Mozilla by default, I could go on. Ungoogled Chromium doesn't do any of that. Firefox is also less secure than Chromium. If an actual malicious attacker can access my browser, that's a million times worse than any kind of concern about Google bulk collecting my data as far as I'm concerned.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...