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I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don’t like Google trackers.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Does vanilla Chromium have Google trackers?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yes. https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/

    But not nearly as many tracking mechanisms as Chrome, because it lacks API keys for some services. By default, it will still send the URL of every page you visit to Google, though. At least that’s my understanding, reading their privacy policy.

    But it also doesn’t update itself, doesn’t seem to have a working Mac build (the one on their website doesn’t launch), and doesn’t sync (which I can live without, but end-to-end encrypted sync is nice).

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, this is a contender. No Windows build and no sync are the downsides, but neither is a deal breaker, since I’m only testing with it, and I code on Linux and Mac.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you’re using Windows, Edge is an option. You already have the Microsoft telemetry watching you regardless of using Edge, so you might as well use it if you need chrome for testing or a specific website.

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