Thorium.

How mich actual difference (minus the crypto) is there to base-chromium?
Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that?

If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of "bugs and features" there's a contextual implication.

Honestly not sure. I haven't done a side by side with plain old chromium in years.

The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:

reinstall the browser without admin rights

Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven't used Windows in well over a decade, so I don't think that particular one would be an issue for me.

The rest can be grouped as:

• bugs - bug fixes generally don't get prioritized until enough users complain; I would be very picky if I was an at risk person (activist or whatever) and would probably only use Tor browser
• opt-in services
• their marketing department

My options for chromium browsers are:

• something with ineffective ad blocking
• Opera - I used it before it became a chromium browser, then it went downhill; not FOSS
• Brave, with all its warts

Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.

I only use Linux and I want Windows to just stay out of my way or it'll pay, listen to what I say.

I don't like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:

1. FOSS
2. Privacy tools - includes ad blocking; I'd actually be okay with ads if they didn't track me
3. Promotes open web standards - rendering engine diversity is critical here, I don't want a repeat of the IE era
4. Security
5. Performance

Firefox ticks all of them, and my issues with Mozilla as an org don't really come into play. I use a fork on my phone, but I use Firefox on my laptop and desktop because I trust the binaries coming from my Linux distribution maintainers (part of 4).

It's an elite club.

Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there's literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.

Except:

1. Most of them are bundled terribly, forcing you to use flatseal or similar to make it work - way to much to do and understand for the average user
2. Roughly half of all the programs I install are flatpaks, and the other half are appimages. They both largely work the same, but the fact that there's a difference will be crippling to the average user. Especially if you ask them to choose between one or the other
3. Believe it or not, a lot of people are not comfortable with the app store mentality flatpak seems built around. Googling "chrome download" is far more ingrained in the average person. Aside from browsers and projects of similar scope, this is difficult to achieve on linux

Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.

Linux blocks that "feature" too...

Yep, everything is politics whether we like it or not.

How does me using brave browser supports fascism?

It was wordplay, yes.

I retract.

I still have literally thousands of clients that use Windows and want support... for these kinds of things. Firefox has recently stopped working on a few things and Brave works better for me right now. It's not convenience when FF doesn't work...
But I digress, Win 11 here and Brave. My choices, for lots of reasons. Lots of linux boxes as well though. Each to their own and all that

In this thread something I see a lot on lemmy is happening. Maybe someone can give me a hint on how that happens. The post itself is 90% upvotes, while the comment section is really anti-Brave (for good reasons). Do most upvotes come from people scrolling through without looking at the comment section and those with an opinion on the topic dive into it?

An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.

You can't make this shit up

The better option would be to not use spyware as an operating system.

In my country, one of the most successful supermarkets is run by a fascist and he uses part of his fortune to finance our local fascist party, which is gaining strength every year by the way. Do we support fascism by buying in that supermarket? What if we suddenly started to boycott the supermarket to hell?

My point is that they earn profits by using their services and in today's society money is power. And from where the CEO got his power? From the millions of people with the mindset of "if it benefits me I don't care".