Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features.

My browser recommendation, if you’re looking for something that’s open source and pretty competent, it’s a fork of Firefox with some pretty unique functionality.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    21·
    10 hours ago

    I use Zen as well, but I dont like the idea of calling any browser fork “privacy focused”. It only takes one malicious update and your entire online life can be exfilled to wherever.

    You can sue Mozilla/Google/MS (maybe unsuccessfully, depends on functional courts) if something goes wrong there, you cannot sue a random github repo.

          • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            The attack surface is the flaw. The chain of trust is the flaw/risk.

            Who’s behind the project? Who has control? How’s the release handled? What are the risks and vulnerabilities of the entirely product delivery?

            It’s much more obvious and established/vetted with Mozilla. With any other fork product, you first have to evaluate it yourself.

          • CameronDev@programming.dev
            2·
            8 hours ago

            No, this is (to my knowledge anyway) a theoretical problem. But it is very much a real risk, as demonstrated by the xz backdoor.

            We should be very careful who we trust, especially for browsers, because a compromise could be catastrophic.