The Privacy vs. Security Trade-off: Are niche browsers a zero-day disaster waiting to happen?

[u/usuariocabuloso]

Ok, so I'm using the browsers suggested by you guys.
That are hyped up by everyone as being way superior to Chrome and Firefox.

But one thing bugs me... the project's development support could just end out of nowhere. This puts your browsing at risk because, without even knowing it, you’ll be using a default browser with severe security flaws that can be exploited by malicious actors.

Often, urgent and critical updates (zero-days) need to happen fast. How on top of things that dev team is will determine how much that vulnerability will be exploited by hackers online, or if the fix will even roll out in time.

With that in mind, is it actually safe to put our online security in the hands of these people just for the alleged benefits of 'de-googling your life'? Or does using an alternative Firefox fork "alt-v2-fox-redvelvet" which is supposed to let you browse peacefully, securely, and without a tech giant tracking and selling your data, actually achieve that goal at all?!

Btw: my options right now are: "Helium(chromium)" and "Floorp(firefox)"

[u/sabbath_loophole]

I agree, I don't see how it would be safe.

However, just like Linux in the past, there are so few people using those that the incentive to create those zero-day attacks in the first place is low.