Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy
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HN comment orderSo increase your "privacy" 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. (Iridium is currently branched off chromium 54, chrome is on version 55)
The developers of Iridium don't reveal that their browser phones home to their servers, and that's cause enough for distrust here. A quick "grep -r iridiumbrowser.de" of the source reveals that they replace calls home to Google with calls home to various hostnames of the form "trk-NNN.iridiumbrowser.de", where NNN is a three-digit number. Presumably these hosts act as proxies. For example, lines 37-38 of chrome/browser/history/web_history_service.cc: const char kHistoryQueryHistoryUrl[] =…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 226
- Total comments
- 141
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-03 | Iridium – Secure BrowserFirst breakout | fcambus | 95 | 58 |
| 2017-01-21 | Iridium Browser – A Browser Securing Your Privacy. That’s It | ergot | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-01-24 | Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacyBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | Jerry2 | 127 | 83 |
| 2018-09-25 | Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy | trextrex | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-23 | Iridium Browser: A browser securing your privacy | auraham | 2 | 0 |