In fairness, Firefox is still measurably less secure than Chrome, even after everything Google has put it through. You should avoid Chrome (and Edge) as much as you can, but Chromium itself is still better more secure than Firefox (Gecko) unfortunately.
Hopefully ladybird can bring some real competition to the browser market…
Or any other frontend. Nadeko goes down somewhat often, but I’ve never failed to find a working frontend to switch to.
Edit: It seems I’m significantly more out of touch with what Google et al. have been doing recently than I first thought. After reading many of the replies, I certainly failed to consider how much of their behavior impacts the average person. I’ll leave my old comment here, but I no longer stand by what I said.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but compared to everything else big tech has been doing recently, Google almost doesn’t feel like a bad guy. They’re still invasive as hell, but compared to any other mainstream AI, search, email, cloud storage, VPN, etc. providers, they almost feel closer to Apple levels of evil rather than removing “don’t be evil” from your moto levels of evil. Crazy how humanity continues to outdo itself.
If you want that in an image format:
Reject Convenience on privacy capitalism
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=xFKSKjyBVDU
Reject Convenience discusses the various companies selling you private alternatives to invasive services.
A crop worse than the Irish famine…
IIRC that was for Proton Mail not Proton VPN. Yes they’re owned by the same company, but a VPN handing over your IP is arguably worse that an email provider.
The government isn’t the only threat e2ee protects against. When a non-e2ee service is hacked, the data is free for the taking, if the service is e2ee the data is only available from that moment forward. I’m not going to speak for which provider you should use, but you should reconsider needing e2ee.
Internet Explorer is still used by the Windows OS quite frequently. So depending on your definition of “supported” it still kind of is. Plus the internet hasn’t changed all that much, so most websites will work with any web browser regardless of age.
Edge… Opera… Internet explorer…
In the event they abandon again, they’re leaving even more users vulnerable. The only thing CalyxOS has over AOSP is the removal of the Google Play Store… in exchange for microG, which runs with elevated permissions as well. Ignoring that, as I said in my comment above the one you’re replying to, a third of the supported devices are GrapheneOS compatible. The other two thirds are covered by LineageOS, which imo is just as secure as CalyxOS (probably even more secure than Calyx given they abandoned their community for about 10 months).
It’s weird to group two Linux OSs with an Android OS anyway. One is focused on security, while the others are focused on introducing another type of mobile OS into the market.
I’m gonna sound like a shill, but your claim that “Calyx will literally save lives from ICE” is crazy.
After abandoning their users by pausing all updates, and given that a third of their supported devices are Google Pixels, any one with a Google Pixel is significantly better off on GrapheneOS.
ICE has shown their hand in what they’re willing to waste tax payer money on, so one must assume they have access to Graykey / Cellebrite, and Calyx does very little to prevent physical attacks. Even on the digital side, Calyx does nothing to increase app security and the device sandbox, and given ICE’s partnership with Paragon Solutions, it’s only a matter of time before malware comes into play.
Calyx is better than base AOSP (barely imo), but if you have a Pixel, there is a much better option that might actually save your life if it came to it.
You assume Flock was ever legal in the first place
Maybe now they’ll actually leave the body cams on…
Hi, yes, I am real man. Want to go skateboards?
Maybe a hot take, but M$ is, imo, nowhere near as bad as Google or, god forbid, Meta.
In all seriousness though, this sums it up quite well: It is a few years old, but most of the problems still apply https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
I said measurably because I do remember seeing benchmarks somewhere about the browser security, but as of now I can’t find them. That said, while Firefox is worse, from a security standpoint, than chrome, it’s generally more private (letterboxing, resist fingerprinting, etc.) but for me, the security tradeoff isn’t worth it.
I know a lot of people probably won’t believe me when I say this, but I do like Firefox (a lot more than Chrome and its derivatives) but when you can’t sandbox browsers without significantly weakening the browser’s sandbox (a little unintuitive), I choose to put security and browser integrity above personal preference.
If you or anyone else wants to use firefox, it’s not like you’re instantly going to compromise your machine. Firefox just lacks a lot of the security that chrome has, and thus has a greater potential for exploitation.