It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Cromite is more of a “single purpose” browser, for hardcore antifingerprinting.

      If you want to shop online or browse stuff without tracking ghosts following you around, there is nothing even close.

      I love it.

      …But it’s kind of impractical.

      Its antifingerprinting is so extreme it breaks many sites. It doesn’t even try to support many features/extensions in pursuit of this. And TBH, any browser with full UBlock (like Helium or Firefox) provides a better “adblocking” experience, albeit not as strong of an anti-tracking one.

    • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      so far, the updater sucks ass on windows, and breaks ublock on android. im staying on librewolf / ironfox.

      • chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I’m on Linux so no clue how it performs on Windows. I’ve been using Cromite on Android since 2024 with no issues. It has built-in Adblock, but uBlock works perfectly as well. Just need to enable extensions and install it.