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submitted 1 year ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I was using brave before and decided to switch to firefox but I did some research and turns out firefox collects way more by default than brave and I am switching back, what do you think?

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[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

I will also recommend Mull, it's a hardened Firefox and can pretty much be described as Librewolf for Android

[-] Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

grapheneOS devs say Firefox is unsafe, but I think they say that for anything that isn't Vanadium (their own browser)

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Vanadium (their own browser)

which is just another chromium browser; kinda contra-productive of them.

[-] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Untill we get a gecko webview , you are using chromium based , whatever browser you are using. So yea the options are or use chromium or chromium plus Firefox.

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

As others have said: Mull (which is based on FireFox) + uBlock Origin is the way to go.

If for any reason you need a Chromium-based browser: Cromite.

[-] DARbarian@artemis.camp 15 points 1 year ago

Use Mull -- it's like LibreWolf, for your phone

[-] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Fennec works well

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just turn off studies, pocket and change default search.

Not using Chromium is about preventing the WEI rollout.

[-] erithrym@hispagatos.space 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@spez I use Mull (https://f-droid.org/es/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/) for Android and Librewolf for desktop. If you want the more convenient way to use Mull on Android, NeoStore (https://f-droid.org/es/packages/com.machiav3lli.fdroid/) is the way. They even have DivestOS official repo.

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know how it stacks up but there's also DuckDuckGo's browser - it has the added benefit of 'App Tracking Protection' which stops other apps from collecting data in the background by using a local VPN. Crazy how much it blocks - even for apps that haven't been launched at all recently.

[-] whiskers@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

Can you share what tracking data Firefox connects by default on Android?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

Look into mullvad browser for a out of the box private browsing experience, no tweaking required.

It's based on tor browser, based on Firefox.

[-] neme@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Not available on Android.

[-] Resonant0838@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox has specific issues that chromium based browsers don't. A big one is site isolation or keeping one website from accessing data from another. Those problems are worse on Android than desktop. I do use Firefox with uBlock on desktop but Brave on my phone.

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Mull and Tor Browser

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