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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 week ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chrome !=Chromium. The tite is correct.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Google could close the Chromium source at any time. There might be promises and provisions that they'll never do that, but if they do, who has the money to sue them? And who, of those, can't be bought?

"So what, people can run with the last good codebase!"

Sure, until there's a critical bug that Google don't publish which then cripples Chromium until the maintainers figure it out, or else Google (deliberately or otherwise) take web standards down an unexpected path requiring massive changes, also making life hard for the fork maintainers.

And don't say "that'll never happen". Need I gesture broadly at the state of the world?

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whatever. Chromium is not Chrome, at the moment, so the title is correct. What may happen in 2,5 or 10 years from now is largely irrelevant at this time.

Nobody is going to ditch their favourite browser (or any other tool) because of the rants of some random netizen/website.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Strawman.

Your argument is that Chrome and Chromium are bad

The discussion being had is that Chrome != Chromium

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My roof and my walls are not the same thing, but if demolish my walls, will my roof hover there magically?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really don't know what's so difficult about this. It does't matter what happens to the walls or roof, the fact remains that they're not the same thing. I mean unless you take your roof off and make it a wall and vise versa, then yes!