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, …

What makes you trust Thorium more than Brave as a company/product? What makes you not trust Brave as a company?

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) …

Throium is a hobby project and is not up-to-date with Chromium. It’s definitely not secure.

Do you have an alternate recommendation that is more secure?

Thank you for responding/your answer. 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’…

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. You may be asking for the “impossible” here.

Most secure would be Trivalent for Linux, but it is secureblue and fedora only.

Yeah I realize there may not be a better solution. Just thought I would ask. Thanks for the feedback. :slight_smile:

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?

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