My setup on GrapheneOS with all the exploit protections on except some off for apps with compatibility issues. Thoughts?
Pro tip. If you go to an apps notification settings, then set a category to silenced and option called "minimize" should show up which allows the notification to be hidden from the notification bar, but shown in the drawer
Oh that's very cool, I didn't know that. Although I think it isn't the most useful for me since I don't have lockscreen notifications and I have all my apps on the home screen
It doesn't bother you to see mullvard in the top all the time?
Quite the opposite, I rather it be up there so I see it's running. Altough not that it matters much since I have a killswitch
chrome could be firefox. much better, and no effort at all to switch.
bonus for using ublock origin and never seeing ads again.
Firefox is not secure on mobile, Vanadium is a great browser made by the GrapheneOS devs
Firefox is not secure on mobile
Can you elaborate on this?
People in the comments already have "Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android."
I'm on the go right now. This is a quote for an old privacy guides snapshot, but when I was looking for it, I saw some articles from April saying that this was no longer true, so further searching needed when I get home
On Android, Firefox is still less secure than Chromium-based alternatives: Mozilla's engine, GeckoView, has yet to support site isolation or enable isolatedProcess.
Oh, i didn't know it was a fork. I'd take adblock over it though, just for the fact it blocks rogue malicious javascript along with ads.
I generally recommend Firefox for people that don't use it, but there are more secure forks too if that's your jam.
I mean Gecko based browsers are actively recommended against on mobile. Chromium based browsers are recommended. Also I use mullvadVPN DNS based ad blocking, and I also have Brave that has built in ad blocking. Do yourself a favor and ditch adblock in favor of Ublock origin
never heard of it. by whom? for what reason?
I haven't really dived into this but I'm pretty sure GOS dev are one of the groups to recommend against it
Completely out of topic but,
I just noticed that this post has more comments than upvoted
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What's the app directly above Orbot and Mullvad?
Cromite, but I have switched to brave since, it has better fingerprinting protection, more updates, better security and better sandboxing and isolation. At least that's what Deepseek R1 with websearch has to say
Isn't Brave just a scammy cryptocoin browser and ad server? I've heard bad things about them.
It's audited and open source
Are those green mini icons an indication of a PWA shortcut?
I use the app Hermit to run isolated websites, usually as PWAs. It's replaced quite a few apps, but I've noticed that many companies are intentionally making their web experience shit so they force you to use invasive apps.
Anyway, it can create home icons for those sites, and they run separately (i.e. in your task switcher), so it works better than browser shortcuts.
KeePassDX, nice choice! I really wish I could have DX or XC on both phone and desktop. Love both but would prefer to donate to one. Wallet is unhappy but I really try to donate to all FOSS apps I use...
What’s the chrome app?
Is nano GPT 100% offline? Or self hosted?
I see two: Cromite (Green) and Vanadium (Gray, Chromium variant by GrapheneOS)
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