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submitted 2 months ago by warmaster@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone know anything about it? Any thoughts worth sharing? Is it trustworthy?

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's just another Chrome.

[–] fuckgod@feddit.online 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Fruit of a very poisonous tree. Never trust chromium. Not even once.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Especially considering what they're doing to Android.

[–] fuckgod@feddit.online 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't even get me started. I've always hated Apple for this kind of stuff, and now they're making Android even worse, piece by piece.

And given that society is dependent on phones, we're all fucked. I don't know if a Linux phone can do much given how it's mostly non capitalistic. I wish though. But adoption-wise I don't know if it could be a contender anyway. I'm not well-versed in it, but I'm just assuming the worst since the world is falling apart right now and my hope gland needs surgery. 😭

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

There is Vanadium though.

[–] arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface.

By GrapheneOS. Might they be wrong?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one.

This seems to be the main thrust. GrapheneOS has a hardened WebView, that using a Gecko browser bypasses and adds more attack surface because you still have the WebView.

Outside of Graphene this is less relevant (because of the lack of hardening) and outside of mobile only the isolation comments are relevant, which they note are being improved rapidly in desktop.

Arguments in favour of using Gecko browsers are typically about preventing a single corporation from monopolising web standards, and having continued access to proper ad blockers, things that are not part of Graphene's focus.