• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You can track the bug history here:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751363

    You can see here Chromium had support for this for several years prior:

    https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/PKGBUILD?h=chromium-vaapi

    Android being based on Linux prob has something to do with Chromium’s strong Linux support, but Mozilla has consistently prioritized Windows/Mac. Despite it still be challenging, building Chromium from source has always been a lot easier IMO than trying to create a custom build of Firefox.

    Regardless, when it comes to privacy, Chromium itself is pretty stripped down and has policy-based integrations that put it on par with Firefox in terms of security. Even with Firefox, you’d have to modify quite a few policies to improve security. Tor/Mullvad Browser though do a better job in many ways and there is no equal to those privacy enhancements on Chromium that I know of, unless you’re using something like GrapheneOS.

    Point being, people like to complain about Chromium a lot & act like Apple fan bois for Firefox, when in reality privacy is nearly the same with both with some minor configurations.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      Chromium is not stripped down at all, just use googerteller and see. It contacts Google everywhere, on the password list, on the account list, in some settings pages, and just randomly sometimes.

      It is very crazy. And also it is not fingerprint resistant at all.

      I am using all flag settings, policies and GUI settings possibly existing and it still is like that. So no, it is not the same privacy-wise.

    • TarantulaFudge@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      What the heck are you talking about? Chromium is one of the hardest packages to build and it takes forever. Firefox has FAR fewer dependencies. Chromium’s privacy enhancements are a joke.