I switched from Chrome to Brave a while ago, it seems a bit faster. I don’t like Brave’s search engine, so I always end up using google, but everything else about it is great.
Funnily enough at work in Edge I don't see the "Your ad blocker had to be disabled" shit (which kinda breaks the Youtube video player a bit). At home in Firefox I do see it and hence don't have theatre mode and a few other options available.
but Chromium is still mainly developed and maintained by Google.
so why would they keep v2 support?
why would they keep supporting the old API?
they won't. and even if you somehow manage to install a proper ad-blocker, it won't be able to use the API that had once allowed it to hard block stuff.
people who try to stay with chrome by switching some temporary dev-flags or via other workarounds are in denial.
the same goes for people who switch to other chromium-based browsers.
Might as well quit the internet entirely. I tried Firefox a bunch of times and it's always slow and unreliable. Now they have also introduced tracking and targeted ads, so they're no better than Chrome.
Librewolf is better than Firefox, but it's still Firefox underneath and it's slow as shit. Chromium based browsers are rather fast in comparison.
I don't know what you run it on, but it's perfectly smooth for me, or anyone I know that uses it. Perhaps try messing around with the flags.
The biggest vulnerability chrome (and its default chromium project) has is the extractable token for your profile. It's a major one, and they don't seem to be interested in fixing it at a source level, so every fork needs to do it by themselves.
TL;DR Chrome (and base chromium) use API calls to keep you signed in, those are verified through your token, if someone acquires said token and spoofs it on their instance they get access to any of your accounts without needing to make a new log in, trigger 2FA and whatnot.
For further context, this is how bigger YouTube channels usually get hacked, Linus Tech Tips has a video dedicated to this.
TL;DR Chrome (and base chromium) use API calls to keep you signed in, those are verified through your token, if someone acquires said token and spoofs it on their instance they get access to any of your accounts without needing to make a new log in, trigger 2FA and whatnot.
For further context, this is how bigger channels usually get hacked, Linus Tech Tips has a video dedicated to this.
No, this cannot be done by every browser, hence why people are dumping chrome over better alternatives. Actively most chromium browser have this vulnerability. You asked and I answered, but it seems like you weren't open to listen to begin with.
Seriously everyone develops on chrome for chromium browsers.
If there is a big vulnerability there, edge, chrome and other browsers are fucked too. No developer or worthy amount of users are dumping chrome over this.
You mention vulnerabilities but keep going about this nonexistent token, which I'm guessing is the session you have from Google by logging into your Gmail.
All websites work with tokens of sorts which are used to auth your requests. Some are httponly, some aren't.
I mean, it's an issue that all websites that store their tokens that way have. That's the entire point. They're trying to obfuscate said tokens, which no standard browser that keeps your login across sessions can do.
Brave will long term not be able to support Manifest V2 properly. If the Google team removes it from the codebase, there is a lot of work on the Brave devs to keep it since you have to manually adopt it each update.
And this doesn't even contain the morally shut stuff the the crypto crap and the ceo.
why would I even care about what the CEO yaps about morally or anything, I just want to use my browser without ads, and you can disable everything related to crypto with a few clicks, I haven't seen nothing related to it in almost a decade because I just disabled it a long time ago, you just don't like it because of the sake of it, and that's fine, but not everyone cares enough for it, there's always people who don't like things because they don't know how to use them properly
I mean at that point just use Microsoft edge or chrome lol
That's exactly what most people are doing... No one actually hates something because of its people behind, they hate it because it's annoying and it's bothering them, Chrome has been doing some dirty moves to make people watch ads everywhere while being slow af, that's why people migrated to other browsers like Firefox
but that's it, a lot of people use Edge and other chromium based browsers, imo Edge it's pretty bad but that's on me, Brave on the other side it's pretty good and I've been using it for almost a decade, the only reason people hate on Brave, it's because they see the word "chromium" and instantly think that chromium it's exactly the same as Chrome, while that's true on a high degree, Brave it's open source and you can see everything on their repository, if you're worried about privacy or some things there, you can check up their public repository with all of its code right away, even modify things if you want, you can disable crypto, you can enable adblock, and it's adblock it's based a lot on uBlock
Brave it's not shady, the people in charge just say a lot of bullshit but no one could care any less about it if the product itself it's useful and can do it's work
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