▲ 632 ▼ Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com) submitted 2 years ago by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 266 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] zebs@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) Vivaldi is a good Chrome replacement. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] bananbreadnomnom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] zebs@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago So? There is no way for the vast majority of users to read or understand the source for something like Firefox - to the point it may as well be closed source. Agreed of course plenty of security researchers will be examining the code which they can't with Vivaldi - but presumably if that was a security advantage Firefox would have less vulnerabilities when compared to other browsers. (Actually would be interested to see if this is the case!) permalink fedilink source parent [–] Calibree@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago It's really great! Been using it for nearly a year now and love the influx of privacy friendly features. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] bananbreadnomnom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] zebs@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago So? There is no way for the vast majority of users to read or understand the source for something like Firefox - to the point it may as well be closed source. Agreed of course plenty of security researchers will be examining the code which they can't with Vivaldi - but presumably if that was a security advantage Firefox would have less vulnerabilities when compared to other browsers. (Actually would be interested to see if this is the case!) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zebs@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago So? There is no way for the vast majority of users to read or understand the source for something like Firefox - to the point it may as well be closed source. Agreed of course plenty of security researchers will be examining the code which they can't with Vivaldi - but presumably if that was a security advantage Firefox would have less vulnerabilities when compared to other browsers. (Actually would be interested to see if this is the case!) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Calibree@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago It's really great! Been using it for nearly a year now and love the influx of privacy friendly features. permalink fedilink source parent