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by robocat 971 days ago
You have a laptop with a browser. You buy a laptop with a more secure browser. You have increased attack surface yet security is improved.

It is quite possible a native Chrome on iOS would be more secure.
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frizlab 971 days ago
Absolutely not. You now have a computer where you have chromium’s flaws for your daily internet browsing and Safari(or whatever native browser is on the OS)’s flaws for the native apps that use the native browser.

Yes indeed, you’re still free not to use these apps. But would you? At some point why not get a computer where the internet is the “OS” (a chromebook for instance……… where guess what? you cannot use an alternate rendering engine. Interesting, no?)

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m-p-3 971 days ago
Technically you can run an alternative browser on ChromeOS under the form of an Android app, or by running a different one in the Linux sandbox.
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