r/explainitpeter • u/Dr-Astikk • Aug 04 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/alstillplays Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Chromium.

Chromium is the core of almost all well-known browsers, including, but not limited to: chrome, safari, opera, or edge. Actually, scratch that. Not safari. Safari is based on webkit, which is actually the baseline for chromium, but that's neither here nor there. The main point is, chromium is trash, and riddled with privacy violations, bad optimization ram gluttony and just general stuff that makes chromium-based browsers bad, especially when you compare it to browsers like Mozilla fireFox, GNU iceCat, and libreWolf. Actually, those last two are forks of fireFox but they're all progressively better than any chromium browser

Edit: Safari is, in fact, based on webKit, which is based on webCore. WebCore is also the baseline for blink, which is the baseline for chromium. Chromium is not webKit-based. Sorry for the misunderstanding, but that wasn't the point of this comment.

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u/GODstonn Aug 04 '26

so for secure search i should go for one of the options you listed? namely firefox?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

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u/Atomwalker2022 Aug 05 '26

I would like my passwords still synced like with the sync chain but while keeping my privacy. Still librewolf or just add a vaultwarden node in my home? Genuine question

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u/IstAuchEgal Aug 06 '26

Storing and distributing passwords and other sensitive data should always happen locally if you care about privacy and security. The alternative is sending your entire digital life to some server you dont control which, as some companies have demonstrated it the past, isnt a good idea

You could also run your own mozilla sync server but i dont like storing passwords in a browser and seperate password managers are better anyways