I need a version of chromium for certain sites I need to use. I want something degoogled, trusted, and secure. Not willing to use brave because a) I don’t really trust them as a company, b) the software makes my head spin with the number of options and settings (that also don’t seem to always save, and revert to undesirable settings frequently).
I’ve been using Thorium, but I’m curious if this community has a better recommendation? I forget the reason I didn’t go with the standard “degoogled chromium” but the first time I did this research, Thorium seemed like a better option by my evaluation metrics and priorities.
I don’t necessarily trust Thorium significantly more per say, but a) Brave is a company and all companies will maximize profit even at the expense of customer rights, b) Brave has been caught lying to customers before about what their browser does and does not do once installed on your computer, c) the crypto feature is so utterly bizarre I don’t really trust anyone who would build that into a product, and d) while I had Brave installed, I would often (like dozens of occasions) find that privacy settings in the browser had reverted to less private settings without my knowledge or permission.
I will say despite that, my decision to use Thorium instead was based more on simplicity. I simply don’t want to use a browser as complicated as Brave.
I don’t think you have thought or fully considered the nuances of what you believe in and how you want to go about it. And you may of course have your thresholds for select things and that’s okay (even as I disagree).
Anyways, hope you find the resolution you’re looking for. Good luck! Albeit, I think you may be overly discounting and disparaging legitimate tools for your own personal reasons/preferences that may not be grounded.
Products made by actual companies with full time support behind it are are secure. But you have Brave and Chrome I’m guessing? Plus FF is not Chromium so that negates it too and so do all its forks.
I’m on Fedora, so this is intriguing! The github only has 132 stars and I can’t find other info about this online. Do you have any links to discussions or articles about Trivalent?
A. Yes, that is the crypto part.
B. Sure.
C. You can just not use the crypto part.
D. I think Brave used to do that if you keep disabling Shields. Now it saves Shields settings for each site. And even with the default “less private” settings, it is still better than Thorium.
Cromium? It is more secure, than Brave, but you trust some guy with all that security tweaks. So, yeah, it is definitely Brave or even Edge, not Cromium or Thorium.
