I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT.

Here are my problems with some popular browsers.

  • Mozilla Firefox: Pocket integration, no ad-blocking without extensions.

  • Brave: Everything related to crypto. Also its start page is horrible.

  • Chromium: No ad-blocking without extensions and soon Manifest v3 will cripple all content blockers.

Now, these suboptimal defaults wouldn’t be such a big problem if the configuration files were easy to backup and restore and respected the XDG base directory specification.

  • the_crab_man@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    Web browsers handle the most sensitive information about a user, so I would never trust a proprietary browser.

    • soulfirethewolf@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Most of Vivaldi is already open source. The only parts that aren’t are the front end. And that part is apparently just minified JavaScript