• pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    53·
    4 days ago

    Wow I got downvoted a lot on that I thought it was a generally agreed upon fact. Source (graphene os)

    I still use firefox btw because I prefer it for many other reasons but chromium is definetely more secure.

    • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      GraphaneOS founder has fetish for Chromium and he hates F-Droid 1

      tldr: he accuse f-droid not being secure and citing this bs post https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ and he promotes accrescent.app

      • they contain closed-source app
      • they have very flawed understanding of open-source and security 2, 3

      here is some examples:

      Open source doesn’t necessarily mean more secure. I’m aware of many open source apps with numerous well-known security vulnerabilities, as well as many closed-source apps that are highly secure. Furthermore, Accrescent will have a filter to, for example, show only open source apps, so your treatment is incomprehensible.

      Accrescent doesn’t claim to serve only open-source apps and never has out of the belief that an app’s source model doesn’t inherently make it more or less private or secure. Qlango doesn’t violate any explicit or implicit Accrescent policy by the properties you listed, so it would be inappropriate to remove it.

      …In addition, “trackers” are subjective. Accrescent has no plans to enumerate specific libraries or classes and blacklist them solely based on the fact that they connect to Google, Amazon, etc.; collect analytics; or contain proprietary code. This approach isn’t scalable anyway because it is trivial to bypass such detection methods.

      So I take everything GraphaneOS says with a grain of salt

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        14 minutes ago

        daniel micay:

        You’re well aware that the CalyxOS / F-Droid community has made multiple attempts at having me killed through severe swatting attacks

        holy shit that’s batshit crazy. is there any proof this actually happened?

      • Stilic@lemmy.ml
        13·
        3 days ago

        Can you stop spreading FUD? This almost feels like a pointless attack on someone who haven’t asked anything… Already that were targeted with harassment…

        • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
          21·
          3 days ago

          Dan Micay is infamous for false and baseless accusations leveled at other groups of people, including everybody from Louis Rossman to the Calyx and F-Droid teams. If making verifiable statements is considered harassment, how much more harassment has he been doing?

    • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org
      4·
      3 days ago

      One source from a sadly biased author. I am honestly too lazy to aggregate some numbers for CVEs to find out what’s the truth but I am sure that it is not an inherent quality of chromium to be more secure.

      • Adeptus_Obsoletus@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        but I am sure that it is not an inherent quality of chromium to be more secure.

        Oh, come on, this is a well-know fact and it has been that way for years, although it’s slowly changing. It took years for Firefox site isolation to come to Android, and even on desktops, the actual sandbox improvements to try to make it on par with Chromium came last month… It’s really disingenuous to write off the entire post, claiming the author is biased while not even trying to fight the arguments he made on that website.