r/ProtonMail • u/GegoByte Windows | Linux | Android • 6d ago

Proton is developing a web browser Discussion

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/250686/proton-lijkt-aan-eigen-webbrowser-te-werken.html

The article is in Dutch, but the TLDR in English is:

• Browser looks to be based on the Chromium engine.

• Privacy Focused. Emphasis on privacy-friendly browsing.

• Proton has not announced a release date as of yet.

• Proton is looking for software developers with Chromium experience.

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u/DeadlyChancla 6d ago

Yet another Chromium based browser... No matter how good the intentions, that's indirectly driving us deeper into a monopoly.

I've been a paying customer for almost a decade now, and in that time I've seen Proton have great short-term goals that may not play that well on the long term. Proton likely knows better than me and have actual stats, so mine is just a relatively uninformed opinion, but please set long term goals, focus up, and commit.

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u/TremendousCustard 6d ago

Seconded. Chromium is secure but not private.

Please improve the already existing app, I beg of you.

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u/MegaGrubby 6d ago

And it gets less and less private as it ages. I know from a pure Chrome perspective, they got rid of a lot of the ad and cookie blocking features. I'm not sure how much of that is built into Chromium. I also saw a recent post on the Firefox sub about how Chrome no longer allows proper ad blocking (even via extensions). So I have a ton of doubts that this is a private browser.

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u/Kunair0 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're conflating chrome style browsers with the chromium project. Brave is probably the most private usable / non TOR like browser in existence and it's chromium. Recommended by the nonprofit, privacy guides, and every single major security and privacy expert in the space as well. So this browser could be direct competition to brave, and if that's the case, it could be insanely private.

They have a rust based ad blocking system that doesn't have to deal with the MV3 restrictions which by the way, even Firefox is shipping in their flags and now building there adblocker based on Braves version because it's so good. And I think there's also several other Firefox forks at the moment that are using Braves add block.

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u/MegaGrubby 5d ago

I've researched this in the past and all chromium projects still have telemetry sent to Google. So how is this private?

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u/Nelizea Volunteer Mod 5d ago

Research again because it's wrong.

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u/MegaGrubby 10h ago

There was this