They said Chrome specifically, not Chromium as a whole.
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ava@feddit.de 10 months agothere are many reasons to prefer chromium based browsers, security being one of them
am not saying that firefox is inherently bad, but that there are valid reasons to use something else. I know that this is considered a hot take on lemmy but it needs to be said
Skimmer@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
ava@feddit.de 10 months ago
by Chrome they usually mean chromium and all of its derivatives since those will also get mv3 unless they specifically opt out
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
On balance, though, since most people go almost exclusively to well-known, uncompromised websites that are legitimate and also trying to harvest data, privacy protections are more important. Defend against the attacks you know are happening and all.
Besides, most attacks are social engineering these days, and even the most secure browser on earth won’t defend against that. The recent flurry of high profile YouTube account hijacks was accomplished via malware that stole session tokens from both Chrome and Firefox.
ava@feddit.de 10 months ago
both privacy and security are important and neither one is going to save you from a social engineering attack.
and besides, trusting on your users to only go to well known websites isn’t something you should rely on.
but yeah, I totally get your point
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed all around.