<story><title>Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy</title><url>https://iridiumbrowser.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>So increase your &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; at the risk of your security?  Personally, I trust a fully-patched chrome more than a browser that lags behind the latest security updates by 6 weeks.&lt;p&gt;(Iridium is currently branched off chromium 54, chrome is on version 55)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>Google violated my privacy dozens of times today, and there is nothing I can do to stop them from trying again tomorrow.  My machine has been pwned due to browser vulnerabilities exactly zero times (as far as I know).&lt;p&gt;I get that protecting against hypothetical exploits is good, but it&amp;#x27;s probably best to stop the ongoing security breaches first.</text></comment>
<story><title>Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy</title><url>https://iridiumbrowser.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>So increase your &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; at the risk of your security?  Personally, I trust a fully-patched chrome more than a browser that lags behind the latest security updates by 6 weeks.&lt;p&gt;(Iridium is currently branched off chromium 54, chrome is on version 55)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jklinger410</author><text>Maybe for some people Google owning their data is worse than the odds that they will be targeted by the latest exploits.</text></comment>