Is it botnet?
Firefox is kill for me and there are no other non-meme alternatives
Chromium is botnet. If you want a non-botnet Chromium then you have either the suspicious Iridium browser or the buggy as hell ungoogled-chromium fork.
>>58051369
How much of a botnet?
>tfw I couldn't figure out how to install it on Windows and gave up
>>58051427
According to the ungoogled-chromium github page:
>A number of features or background services communicate with Google servers despite the absence of an associated Google account or compiled-in Google API keys. Furthermore, the normal build process for Chromium involves running Google's own high-level commands that invoke many scripts and utilities, some of which download and use pre-built binaries provided by Google. Even the final build output includes some pre-built binaries. Fortunately, the source code is available for everything.
According to the Iridium page:
>Chromium (which Iridium is based on) is a very secure browser, yes. But it does call home to Google. And we did even more to enhance security to the maximum extent possible.
>>58051329
B-but op, firefox is so comfy...
>>58051467
Yeah I've read those, but neither provide actual proof or source
>>58051487
I love Firefox but they dropped ALSA support and I'm not installing PulseCancer on my system
>>58051517
Pulse used to be cancer, but it matured. Give it a try, anon.
>>58051517
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498272
Was deemed as a feature by the devs.
>>58051369
>start up Iridium right after installing
>it opens tabs from firefox that i closed a few days ago
no thanks
>>58051620
There was a time it phoned home to Iridium's servers for "development purposes", that's why I said it's suspicious.
Vivaldi
>>58051369
What about SRWIron?