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Firefox on Android is really nice and meets most of these. Also having full extension support is a huge plus.
Fennec is just Firefox with privacy defaults.
What are you even talking about, Firefox on android sucks. It is so outdated design wise and just terrible to use, and the download list doesnt show you download history for some reason. Firefox on other OS's work great, I even use it as my daily driver but on android. Uff no way.
Sure, the extensions are great, fantastic even. But its the only pro in a sea of cons.🤷
No idea what you're talking about as I've had none of these issues. Also Firefox on iOS isn't actually Firefox, it's just another reskined webkit browser.
Why was this comment removed. Is this reddit?
Was it? I still see it.
Maybe your reader auto hides it due to the low rating?
I've never seen it. Says removed by moderator
Compare these:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/34698028/17414247
https://lemmy.world/comment/15793837
The user is on lemmy.world, where the comment is gathered by all other instances. It is visible for me on dbzer because that pulls from lemmy.world where it still exists.
I assume your instance admins deleted it locally for your instance only. Who knows why. I suggest you move to a different place that doesn't randomly moderate external sublemmys for local users only.
Oh okay weird
The modlog on your instance has a few entries with "reason: automod".
These all aren't present on the actual sub.
Another example here is
which still exists on lemmy.world.
This post has less than 30% vote ratio and more than 50 votes. There might be a cutoff under which shit.just.works simply removes content.
Which if true I gotta say kinda sucks. Maybe a remnant from the cp catastrophe?
You better get used to visiting the home instance of posts whenever you see a removed comment you wanna read. Most apps should have a "source link" option, usually with the fediverse symbol, which should open the post on the "ownership" instance, so the one authoritative over what the comment looks like. My app (summit) even offers that per commend conveniently.
Firefox is by far the best Android browser.
regardless of your browser choice make url check your default link handler to unshort urls and remove query parameters
I was with you till "browser choice". Mind explaining?
Whichever browser you end up choosing. I use Vivaldi quite happily.
No I meant I didn't understand the part about link handler, short, unshort, query etc. Lol sorry
If you've got a link, I'd appreciate it
Oh, I see what you mean.
https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/search/label/UrlChecker?m=1
You can set this as your default application whenever you click a link, and it'll let you strip off the tracking bits and stuff before you go to your browser or whatever.
I'm going to suggest an alternative to Samsung Internet or Firefox : https://github.com/uazo/cromite
Out of the options I've tried, it's probably the best bet for reducing tracking, fingerprinting & increasing security without turning to Tor browser (which while it is more anonymous, is frustrating for general browsing)
For clearing cache, there are two options. There's a dedicated clear browsing data button in the hamburger menu, it can also be configured to "sanitize on close" (similar to Firefox on desktop, or Brave on desktop / mobile) [In cromite, this can be found under Security > Clear the data at open]
I can't recommend Firefox on Android in good faith, until site isolation (fission) is enabled on the platform. This is a major security regression compared to desktop Firefox, or chromium based browsers on Android
Edit: It seems like Iron Fox (continuation of Mull / fork of Firefox) has site isolation enabled - but it is still buggy and does not have all features enabled e.g no isolated process SELinux labels.
Ironfox is nice, thats what I personally use. Its more secure than base Firefox (and importantly for me its in Accrescent)
I use fennec, it's just firefox without current bs of firefox going on
Don't think I've ever used the default Samsung browser... Not intentionally, at least. Firefox Mobile has been fine for me. It has basic plugin support, do you can run unlock origin with it, too.
You can install any extension you want nowadays
Brave for me.
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