It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Ungoogled Chromium is ok. I used it for a while. I found it to be ok. Not great. Not terrible. Just ok.

    Helium looks ok too, if they ever release it as a flatpak or snap I’ll give it a go.

    I tried Vivaldi. It reminded me of what Netscape Communicator used to be - browser, mail client, newsfroup reader… A few too many bells whistles and gongs for me.

    If I was forced to pick a chromium variant, I’d probably turn my PC off for the night and go and have a nice lie down.