Chromium based (which may be a pro or con depending on who you ask).
Their CEO has made homophobic political donations and resigned from Mozilla due to backlash for it.
They have been caught doing shady things like inserting affiliate links into the address bar suggestions.
They use their browser to push their crypto currency, news and other garbage.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was ok with 1 and opted out of 3 and 4 but had no idea about 2

[–] KingPyrox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha I use their crypto to buy crypto I want so that's the reason I asked in the first place. But I guess I'll go back to Firefox, which is the browser I prefer anyways.

These reasons are definitely an eye opener.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's chromium and the company sells telemetry data to advertisers. It's quite literally doing the thing it draws users in with.

[–] KingPyrox@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Firefox not also using chromium?

[–] gullible@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, Firefox is entirely distinct from chromium.

[–] KingPyrox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did not know this, thank you.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox does not use Chromium. However, people get confused because when you mod FF you change the userChrome file with CSS.
FF has had that file name even before Google had a browser.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox uses their own engine, Gecko

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chromium based

[–] slavojrizzek@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Chromium cringe