Comment on Chromium vs Brave
t0m5k1@lemmy.world 9 months agoI use arch-btw so I get arch from aur, on other Linux distros the way to get brave is via flatpak if the provided repos are borked for you.
Comment on Chromium vs Brave
t0m5k1@lemmy.world 9 months agoI use arch-btw so I get arch from aur, on other Linux distros the way to get brave is via flatpak if the provided repos are borked for you.
qwert230839265026494@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I would love to use the flatpak if it was endorsed. Privacy Guides says the following about it:
“We advise against using the Flatpak version of Brave, as it replaces Chromium’s sandbox with Flatpak’s, which is less effective. Additionally, the package is not maintained by Brave Software, Inc.”
t0m5k1@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, I could say come to arch but you seem happy in fedora 😉
qwert230839265026494@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Hehe :P . True dat. Maybe one day ;) . Perhaps I’ll just spin up a distrobox in order to get access to Brave through the AUR, but this (excellent) article has worsened my already bad paranoia to clearly unhealthy levels 🤣. So, it seems out of question for now 😅. Though I might be able to spin it up in a Wolfi container. Pessimism doesn’t help though 🤣.
t0m5k1@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Man you’ve gone down a security worm hole that makes me wonder if you should really be running qubes-OS rather than Fedora 🤣.
Seriously if you need more than the chromium sandbox for brave and want simplicity just use firejail.
The article you linked to is a wonderfully detailed write up but it is more geared towards those using containers that will be providing services (web, sql, etc) if you just want a browser in a secure container then any of the implementations will be fine for you. The browser is not a vector used to gain access to your OS directly but what you download potentially is so with that in mind your downloads folder should really be a CLAMFS folder or a target folder for on-access scanning by clamav.