But you’d trust a megacorporation closely tied to government that has an explicit interest in tracking you, keeping paths for intelligence agencies and law enforcement open, and generally being deceptive? You trust browsers that openly phone home about your activity?
I gauge the risk of my government targeting me lower than the risk of hackers stealing/selling my information. Mainly because the latter has occurred to me numerous times already.
If you're really this serious about security, you should be using Qubes OS. Then, a browser choice stops being important, since the strong isolation would prevent an exploit to do any damage. And disposable VMs allow to do insecure staff without any risk.
But you’d trust a megacorporation closely tied to government that has an explicit interest in tracking you, keeping paths for intelligence agencies and law enforcement open, and generally being deceptive? You trust browsers that openly phone home about your activity?
I gauge the risk of my government targeting me lower than the risk of hackers stealing/selling my information. Mainly because the latter has occurred to me numerous times already.
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Despite you painting it as extreme as you do, yes.
Random exploits on the Internet are still a higher risk for me.
If you're really this serious about security, you should be using Qubes OS. Then, a browser choice stops being important, since the strong isolation would prevent an exploit to do any damage. And disposable VMs allow to do insecure staff without any risk.
I'm serious enough about security that I don't trust a very small dev teams skill set developing a browser for the Internet we have today.
And I don't care if my browser is compromised, since the attacker would only get access to an empty VM on Qubes OS.
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And still written in C++, like c'mon, we are in 2024.
What would be a better option?
The obvious answer is Rust. But I respect their choice of using an existing and probably well-tested C++ code base as a starting point.