WeLoveCastingSpelzBrave fork without crypto crap?
Bromite used to be great, but unfortunately the dev seems to have abandoned it.
I've seen people talking about Mull, Mulch, Fulguris and a couple others. I think Mulch is tied to a specific Android ROM, and the others are Firefox forks.
pootriarchi left a big comment regarding this in another thread, TL;DR combination of brave on desktop and a lot of non-brave things on android, privacy browser + mull + DDG
What FOSS browsers, do you use on a daily basis on both your mobile and computer for privacy and security, and what measures have you taken to further harden your browser (if any). - PopTalk
Me, I have a low threat model so I mainly try to stay away from proprietary stuff when possible (Chrome, Edge ect) I use an eclectic mix of browsers. I use Vivaldi (I know it’s not entirely FOSS but I like the customizability of it), for my amnesiac browsers I use Firefox Focus on Android, and LibreWolf on PC, and for when I want as much anonymity as possible I use Tor with Orbot active routing traffic to Switzerland. I used to use Brave Browser a lot because I like the user interface but I kinda got turned off by all the crypto stuff they’ve been peddling. And as far as I know, Bromite hasn’t been updated in quite some time (please elighten me if I’m wrong about that I’ve been out of the loop for a while) , and I was weirded out by the developer’s statement “I’ll get around to it sometime.” Mull is great but very slow to search imo, when I search for something it takes a long time to load. Or it takes a long time to load a website. It could be internet speed but other browsers work just fine,and I’ve tested Mull on other WiFis. I sometimes also use DuckDuckGo but the search results are so bad that I just find myself searching google to find what I want. No offensive if anyone uses those I personally just haven’t found much use out if them. So what browsers do you use for privacy and security? Edit: Sorry for the long post and edited for clarity.
I wouldn't want Brave on anything myself. The company has proven it isn't trustworthy many times over.
i agree, but my unpopular opinion is that mozilla has also proven this repeatedly, with nothing and nobody being universally better. privacy people love firefox, but i spend a lot of time with each major version’s release notes figuring out how to undo the new telemetry (increasing integration with pocket, firefox suggest, location that won’t turn off).
my threat model is ‘they’re all evil, including mozilla’, so there are additional rings around everything
I use fennec as my regular browser on android and mulch as the webview implementation
fenndevAs a heads up, I believe Fennec is the old codebase for Firefox and it's no longer being actively maintained AFAIK.
Unless, of course, you're using the Fennec Browser built by F-Droid, which is confusingly based on the new Fenix codebase.
I use the one from fdroid it does get updated often enough
It's here now https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools
I literally saw a link in a thread on the OG’s github earlier today, sounds like this will be my new switch.
Although I’m still going to give Mulch a try, with a ROM that has it integrated into webview.
DivestOS is the only Android ROM I know of that integrates the Mulch webview. But Tad (DivestOS dev) also builds standalone binaries of Mulch that can be installed independently- just add their repo into f-droid or something like droidify and you’re good to go.
Link [divestos.org/fdroid/official]