In my quest for the most privacy-respecting and direct control browser I ended up stumbling upon qutebrowser.

What fascinated me is that it literally doesn’t request anything you haven’t asked for. No telemetry, no weird connections. It only serves you what youbask of it.

But, and that’s a big issue, qutebrowser is a proud keyboard-driven browser made for those looking to make their browsing experience more…vim.

So the question arises: is there any browser that is so strict with unwanted connections, telemetry etc., but with a normal GUI?

Thanks in advance for any response!

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  • Sanyanov@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Falkon seems to be based on the modified Chromium. Do you know if it gets affected by the changes in upstream Chromium, particularly Manifest updates and such?

    • DangerousInternet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It is based on WebKit, Safari uses it, GNOME Web, KDE Falcon, some others. I never used it, but I know GNOME Web (or Epiphany) makes connections to update ad blocking list (could be turned off), maybe Falcon do not do it. Both are updated rarely, but they are maintained. There are also SeaMonkey or PaleMoon, thay are Firefox hard forks, they do not depend on Mozilla code any more, I can’t say a thing about SeaMonkey, but PaleMoon way of evolving got wrong way, depends on CloudFlare, prohibits users install extensions, etc, similar to evil Mozilla and generally it is not plain simple browser it was.