Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome
kogasa@programming.dev 1 year agoI recommend Ungoogled Chromium if you have to pick a Chromium derivative. It’s a solid browser with the spyware removed, rather than taped over and exchanged with Microsoft’s own.
stockRot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is edge based off of chrome?
alokir@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, at this point the choice is who gets to spy on you.
kogasa@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s based on Chromium.
stockRot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So there’s no spyware to be taped over?
kogasa@programming.dev 1 year ago
Well, there’s a bit of work to do. See Ungoogled Chromium for an example of a stripped-down Chromium.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Not an easy question. Chromuim by default has pre-made blobs of code from Google that cannot be opened/inspected. We don’t know if Microsoft has replaced or excised those blobs from Edge.
Ungoogled Chromium is a community project that replaces those blobs with code we can see amd audit, but again we don’t know if Microsoft builds off Ungoogled Chromium or just Chromium, because Edge itself is not open source.
Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes, but they replaced the Google spyware with the Microsoft one (as you can easily see from the behavior when downloading Chrome)