ungoogled chromium

Axios

For being ungoogled I would not give you a dime for it
Something has changed with it because I cant get rid of the freaking google ads
using latest appimage.
Does anybody else use or have this problem.

brent

Axios It's my favorite browser of the three I use. Using the Flatpak. I get no ads of any kind, anywhere. not even my start page. DDG is my default engine. This baby has the google crap engineered out of it. I stayed away from the appimages for ungoogled because there seemed to be 'versions' of it created by different camps.
edit/sp
second edit: I dont use google search engine or google maps or google anything in the browser.

elfprince

brent I tried to go the full ddg way a while back, but my online banking refused to cooperate, the site would not load. So I am stuck with using g for that, but keep ddg for online searches.

Axios

brent Well it didnt do it with the older versions appimage (so its getting trashed)
and its void of the setting that would disable that.
But been doing some keeping up lately I think firefox with my addons is still the securest
at this point in time.
Ya am still up in the air on search engines like a lost (Oh never mind)...lol
(Dunno just my view)

brent

elfprince thats weird about ddg and your bank but it's a g/bing world right now. In vivaldi I use brave beta search and that's been pretty good.

elfprince I tried to go the full ddg way a while back,

never go full ddg🙂

brent

Axios try the flatpak, its stable.
of course FF is the best security of all browsers and a lot of it you can DIY...
,,,,in another thread you question the security of all these distros but my own busy mind has been questioning the security of all my addons. only one addon has to be a compromised porous sieve to ruin one's day.

Axios

brent I pretty much back when I was into it heavy tried to vett most really havent added any new addons
Try stay with with the mainstream ones only one I added back was Ublock was only 50/50 on it does some
things I dont understand but does not make it bad.

So I guess gotta take everything with grain of salt.

stalebrim

Axios As per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program, recommended extensions on Mozilla Add-Ons are technically reviewed.

I very rarely use Flatpaks myself. There's no clear indication on Flathub whether the flatpak is from the actual creator of the software.

brent

stalebrim that's an interesting statement, please elaborate.
I (think) I know my ungoogled flatpak is from the ungoogled creator Eloston because eloston is in the flatpak file name. I know my flatpak zoom is by the zoom people because they extort me, I mean charge me, for using. My jitsi flatpak is made by the jitsi people.
Is it possible I'm being duped by an app masquerading as a legitimate flatpak app? or some bad actor? Is that what you meant? Or your mean the smaller sloppily-written stuff.

edit--responding to this statement: "There's no clear indication on Flathub whether the flatpak is from the actual creator of the software."

Axios

Fyi thats what I meant by mainstream did no come out right..haha

stalebrim

brent https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.spotify.Client for example.

brent

stalebrim thanks for responding. I feel denser now than I did with the original question.
At the bottom of your flathub store spotify link:

then another link to known issues:

what says 'possibly fake' about all this? I really am this dense. It's probably right in front of me.

stalebrim

brent I've never said it's fake, I said "There's no clear indication on Flathub whether the flatpak is from the actual creator of the software."

If you look at Spotify's Linux page, there are only instructions for Debian package and Snap, so one could think Spotify doesn't offer a Flatpak.
https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

brent

stalebrim If you look at Spotify's Linux page, there are only instructions for Debian package and Snap, so one could think Spotify doesn't offer a Flatpak.

I got you now. thanks. I would draw the same conclusion if I went to the source and the source said debs and snap only. Eyes open.

brent

stalebrim
Linux Distro Developers: We are going to rely more on Flatpaks and Snaps going forward.
brent: cool, I can trust Flatpaks....
What a rube. Now I see what you are getting at. Even in Spotify forums they say Snap is not even officially maintained by Spotify, but only endorsed.
Jitsi devs do not recognize the Flatpak as their own. I was just at their site (https://desktop.jitsi.org/Main/Download). Even my Zoom does not recognize Flatpak Zoom as one of their own (https://live.zoom.us/download). riffer I'm glad I chose right with Ungoogled!

Why do some distros and devs insist this is the correct way forward then?
there's got to be a big backstory I do not know about...

Axios

I think there should be some auto hash checking with the mother ship think that would
help alot. No matter where it came from

brent

there is the funny business of the Flathub store telling the world it's an official spotify app (see my picture #1) unless we are really in a murky digital world of semantics, wordplay, fair use, etc. But there is no evidence from the Spotify people the flathub is official.

Axios

yyeeeeeeeeppp I agree (we really dont have a clear indication its official)
ok guys i am off to party like its 1899 its my birthday..lol

riffer

The flatpak is from the developer per the developer's page:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#downloads

I thought it was a pretty good browser once you figured out how to add extensions. In the end I just found Brave more to my liking.

stalebrim

brent Well, Spotify is at the "Official snaps from major publishers" section at snapcraft.io