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Librewolf but like... for chromium? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don't change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm currently using thorium as an appimage and it is god enough. But to be honest if you want privacy use Firefox or a fork of it.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

not sandboxed
no repo, no updates, always the risk of malware
not hardened
outdated version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-dhc_SWBk

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[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 2 years ago

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

The point of useing it is that privacy invasive sites like twitch or skribbl.io would still work. Twitch technicality works fine on stock Firefox unless you don't save your history, how dare you.

Yea I don't know a better one yet

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They will work on ungoogled chromium too though, I guess.

In theory there is even the ability to store a chrome:flags override and use it like a user.js. So you could use upstream chromium and not rely on outdated stuff.

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I will try it out after work. Do you know a way to provent automatic openings instead of librewolf? I'm currently using Hyprland and was using the appimage so it doesn't have any conflicts.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Automatic openings? Like default Webbrowser? Also dont use Appimages, just dont.

Depending on the Distro I recommend using Firefox or Brave, add their signed repo and call it a day.

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Exactly default browser. Yes I tryed native and flatpak packages but it would constantly open all other browser instead of librewolf. Even if I defined a other one in the mineapps file

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

No default browser works normally but no idea how to set that in Hyprland.

I highly advise against Appimages. Flatpak is only useful if you dont trust the app which is a valid opinion, but poorly then the browser cant sandbox websites on its own. So native packages are the best option for security it you trust the browser.

Perfect would be to have the browser isolated and also using its sandbox to isolate websites from each other. I dont know if this works though, on Android it does (not with Firefox poorly as they didnt implement it)

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

So one vor two days later anx I can say now that I switch from thorium to ungoogled chromium Wayland. Didn't have issues with defaults and yea its pretty much the same

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Cool! Brave is best for fingerprinting protection, the pretty much plain Chromiums dont really have that.

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Couldn't an extention fix this like canvasfinger or privacy badger?

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

No the base Browser needs to be hardened. On top of that you can install addons but privacy badger is pretty weak afaik, and canvas is just one vector. There still is UA, Apis, referrer policies, WebGL etc

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yea I can do that. I mean it will take a time but it should be possible. Tbh just don't wanna use brave. www.deviceinfo.me is a hood site for checking how hard you browser i s hardened

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago

Thats most often privacy improvements and not hardening, two different things.

I dont wanna use Chromium, but if I would, I would use Brave.

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