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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] Babalugats@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is duckduckgo chromium based?

I don't use it, just curious.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 13 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Unluckily, yes.

There are only 3 independent browser engines left: Firefox, Chromium and Safari. And Chromium derives from Safari, so the only true alternative is Firefox.

[–] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

There is also Goanna / Pale Moon: https://www.palemoon.org/

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

Gecko, blink and webkit

[–] yikerman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There is also a developing project Ladybird (with homebrew libweb), although it is far from production-ready.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, of course there are more projects. KHTML itself was a different engine (which Apple took, modified and re-released with the name of Safari). I just mentioned the only three "complete" and production-ready engines.