Curious on how good this fork of chromium is for privacy. Same person does the Mercury browser too I think
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I’ve used Thorium (not as my main browser) and I like it. Decent privacy features, performance does feel better.
Some major downsides though:
- It is not frequently updated to the latest Chromium patch; there have been times where Thorium has lagged three major versions behind. And just forget about getting patches that fix major security vulnerabilities until the next major update.
- The browser is heavily opinionated, and while that has resulted in a browser with a half-useable version of the Chrome refresh, see this issue and it’s clear the focus is not on privacy.
If you want a browser that’s more focused on privacy and don’t care about the eye-candy that Thorium provides, the Cromite browser is only doing security + privacy patches, has toggles for more permissions, has V8 disabled by default, allows for automatic clearing of history, allows you to change the default referrer policy, has more chrome://flags, and actually gets updates frequently to the latest patch.