Android @lemdro.id Blaze @lemmy.zip 3d ago

DivestOS shut down, impacting apps like Mull. Which browser are you going to use?

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firefox; always firefox.
- Firefox has never put a priority on privacy. Just take a glance at their privacy policy. And it's plain to see that they are moving further away from it every day.
  
  There are a dozen Firefox forks though. Mulch, DDG, TOR, Fennic, Bromite, etc.
  
  Mulch and DDG are not firefox-based
  
  Firefox has never put a priority on privacy
  
  delusional
I want Mull to continue on. I don't want to use another browser. But I guess I must...

Fennec it is
- Maybe apply a hardened user.js
  
  I just applied mulls user js to fennec in the mean time. But I'm going to try to build mull once I get home from the holidays
  
  Any recommendations for that? Arkenfox comes to mind
Firefox. Havent try anything else for ages.
- Nah, I need something functional, private and not a sales platform
  
  Functional like mull? Oh wait. It has been shut down.
  
  If it works, it works. Havent had any problem with firefox. So i stick with it. I dont have time pondering what browser to use every single time stuff like this happens.
Vanadium being a GrapheneOS user.
- Unavailable outside of GrapheneOS
- I wouldn't personally use anything from Graphene os but that's just me.
  
  If you are looking for a hardened Chrome clone Chromite is pretty good.
  
  Care to explain why?
  For clarification, the GrapheneOS part
  
  There was the time when Daniel Micay was the project lead and I wouldn't trust him either. The current leadership seems fine though. I dislike that they only want to support Pixel phones but other than that I don't see any issues.
I use Iceraven currently. It's a Firefox fork. Back when I started to use it, It was one of only two browsers (other being Smart Cookie Web Preview) to support extension sideloading on Android.

I don't think Iceraven is as hardened as Mull, but it is updated on a regular basis. Either case, for most folks, regular Firefox should do the trick. There is also Waterfox, another FF fork on desktop/mobile but it hardly has much to distinguish itself.
@Blaze I'm using FOSS Browser since a long time. I want to keep things minimal on my phone and this one is using my phone's WebView, so it takes less space. There are some drawbacks for sure with this one, but I can cope with them.
- Didn't know about this one, thank you
  
  @Blaze you're welcome!
That's unfortunate. Mulch is my preferred Android browser.
Currently I'm using Chromite (added some more blocklists),
Fennac (hardened as much as I can),
and Brave ( I known I known. I only use it when some website just don't work)
- Is Brave even on F-droid?
  
  Nope. You have to take it from github🫥

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