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[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 58 seconds ago)

There is a wide variety of quality with these recommendations / suggestions.

For example its still lists calyxos which at the moment is dead and a site like privacytools which is basically an SEO farm.

Generally people should avoid lists that do not provide any sort of criteria / transparency for whats on the list, regardless of the intention.

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Mojeek is a great search engine, Disroot.org provides e-mail and a Forgejo instance. openSUSE Tumbleweed is a German GNU/Linux distribution that is very good.

[-] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Don't forget massgrave and talon for Windows, very useful for a clean virtual machine.

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago

Hmm, Brave browser (on mobile)? I thought that Brave is generally dismissed because of their silly crypto stuff, affiliate link controversy, and their CEO's poor stances on, well, lots of things. Any other mobile browser recommendations?

Otherwise, there are some omissions (Mullvad VPN) but this looks like a great list. Thanks for sharing.

[-] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

For security, Vanadium (only available on GrapheneOS. For privacy, Tor. Most everything else falls between on the scale.

[-] freijon@lemmings.world 2 points 6 hours ago

There is an interesting new contender: WebLibre but it's still in alpha state.

[-] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 13 hours ago

Any other mobile browser recommendations?

IronFox and Fennec. Both are hardened Firefox.

[-] Comexs@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

https://grapheneos.org/usage source

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. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

I still use ironfox because of uBlock and dark reader. Cromite is also good.

[-] sdiown@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago

I mean firefox is not really usable on android, at least for me. While Brave has a bad reputation, there isn't any better than Brave, at least for me.

[-] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 2 points 10 hours ago

Firefox on Android requires a LOT of RAM because afaik it is the only modern mobile browser that truly implements its own web engine, rather than piggybacking on Android System WebView.

It ran like crap on my low end Galaxy but I've had no issue with it since switching to a Pixel 8. If you're looking for speed over features while still being decently private, Firefox Focus is a nice simple choice, though it lacks most features of a modern browser.

If you're looking exclusively for privacy-hardening though, nothing can really beat IronFox except maybe Vanadium (but that's GrapheneOS exclusive), and IronFox is the only one with extensive support for browser extensions.

[-] lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

A privacy site which wants to collect and sell data, looks fishy...

[-] whereyaaat@lemmings.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, the comments in this thread feel like hardcore shilling.

[-] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

Great list. I have never heard of picocrypt before. Definitely going to try it out. Thanks for posting

[-] 4vr@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Seems the project isn’t maintained anymore. Thanks to AI.

[-] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

The GitHub says safe to use and feature complete

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for the share bro. I'm always down to learn something

[-] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago

Such a good collection of resources! Thanks for sharing!

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