Kalchaya wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha
While I fancy myself a 'futurist' able to make fairly accurate predictions, I would not attempt that prognostication. Developers are an unreliable lot. The same one that creates a freeware app today is likely to sellout tomorrow, and include nasty bundleware with his app. In its early days, Firefox used to be one of the good guys, now it's just as likely to "fuck you over" as Chrome is:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html
Brave is another one that started out okay, then quickly crossed to the darkside:
https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/brave-browser-sacrifices-security/
I would not venture to guess which browsers will go rogue in the future. I can only list those that are okay now. Browsers are much like sites that source software. Right now, Softpedia and Majorgeeks are kinda/sorta safe...how long before they become as nasty as CNET is unknown.
Wahaha OP wrote
Yes, but a browser that won't update until six months from now, can be trusted for six months. Also, a browser that you can read the source code of, in the sense that it is short enough that you can actually manage to read it in an evening or two, also has higher trust from me, like the surf browser.
Kalchaya wrote
As said, I've been using XP Pro for three years now, and hence relegated to using Mypal, Centaury and Firefox 52.9.0 browsers. As both the OS is long ago EOL/EOS, and the browsers are equally outdated, I'm not impressed with that malarkey.
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