Which option can be the best to browse in Android (between these options)

  • Bromite ; Firefox
  • Stix
  • Iceraven
  • Icecast
  • Lunacy@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 years ago

    Bromite it’s more privacy friendly. Doesn’t have any telemetry or trackers, is shipped with real mitigations against fingerprint, an adblocker, and others features, including:

    • remove click-tracking and AMP from search results

    • always-incognito mode

    • make all favicon requests on-demand (supercookie mitigation)

    • reduced referer granularity

    • enable all network isolation features

    You can see the full list of features here

    These features are enabled by deafult so, you’re going to blend in crowd with others bromite users which is really good because it’ll way harder uniquely identify a single user.

    Security wise, bromite is better. Chomium based browser come with useful security features, like site isolation, CFI and JIT hardening. Instead, Firefox lacks several security mitigations, especially on android. You can see more here. Moreover, bromite uses security enhancement patches from GrapheneOS project.

    Keep in mind that security is also important as privacy. Actually, security is the first line of defense to protect your privacy.

    • Firefox

    Firefox comes with telemetry and trackers enabled by default. However, you can disable the telemetry , in the stable version of Firefox android about:config page is blocked so, you can’t disable all the telemetry. About the trackers I’m not really sure, I think that you can’t disable them using the browser’s settings. Firefox Is shipped with enchanted privacy protection, a tool which protect the users against cross site tracking, social media tracking, cryptominers, fingerprint and more. Ideally, you’d use the standard protection, because is the one enabled by default thus used by majority of users. In Firefox you can use add ons, but keep in mind that every add on installed make you more fingerprintable. I linked some articles regarding these problems here.

    • Iceraven

    Irevanven it’s a fork or Firefox with some modifications and not up to date, which is really bad, every software should be always up to date, it’s most important form of protection you have. You can see the full list of features here

    Fork of Firefox are almost always not up to date, they doesn’t add useful privacy and security enchantments. Instead, they just remove telemetry and other closed source components like pocket. On Firefox , beside the stable version on android, you can disable pocket, telemetry, google safe browsing and basically everything.

    I didn’t find information about stix and icecast.

    • Adda@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      Great explanation. Thank you. Btw., you forgot to link the Iceraven feature list. It would be great if you could update it. I have looked around and actually could not find any reasonable full feature list so far.

        • Adda@lemmy.ml
          2·
          3 years ago

          Ah, you meant GH repo, right. I was curious what you would link as a feature list. I will have to dig a bit to get to know Iceraven better than. Might be interesting to know about this browser, at least a few things, I suppose. Thanks anyway.

          • Lunacy@lemmy.ml
            6·
            3 years ago

            I understand your pain haha. Lack of documentation drive me crazy. I personality think that the only features are the ones in the github page. I hope I’m wrong.

            • Adda@lemmy.ml
              1·
              3 years ago

              Exactly, I was hoping for something, but surprisingly (or maybe actually not surprisingly at all), I have found nothing except those initial paragraphs in the GH repo README.md. I would really appreciate there was more information somewhere, but it is at least something.

      • Lunacy@lemmy.ml
        41·
        3 years ago

        in spreading FUD and promotes Windows over Linux.

        Madaidan doesn’t spread any FUD and doesn’t promote windows over linux. He wrote a purely objective technical analysis about Linux security; many security experts share this view, such as:

        He also wrote:

        Note that these analyses are purely objective and do not account for threat models or other user-dependent factors.

        Users should choose a software according to their own user case and threat model. I personally use Fedora 34 with KDE plasma as desktop environment, I prefer Linux over Windows because of the foss ideology. However, the problems pointed out by madaidan and other security researchers still remain. You said that madaidan spread fud, but you didn’t show any evidence. Madaidan himself uses Linux (I think qubesOS + Whonix because he use Tor for everything)

        And his Chrome shilling is highly related to his hatred for Firefox’s anti racism political stance

        First of all, madaidan uses Firefox, he said that many times on Spite. Second of all, this is a very serious accusation, you should show proofs.

        Have had a lot of one to one experience with him, his sockpuppets and his friends.

        That doesn’t mean they spread FUD about software. Drama it’s really a waste of time.

        Edit: typo and things that are not revelant to the discussion.

      • xenith@lemmy.ml
        21·
        3 years ago

        I use GrapheneOS as my daily driver and love it. I’ve also been active in the GrapheneOS Matrix community and have never seen anything that I would consider questionable. I’ve never received money, but I guess my payment for this comment is a FOSS, deGoogled, hardened OS.

    • Adda@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      I second this. From all of these, I would use Mull. If that is not an option, probably Bromite then, even though I actually really dislike Bromite workflow from the little time I have played with it (and therefore all the Chromium based browsers on Android, I guess – I have not used any in a long time on Android). It just somehow does not suit me. But its privacy features should be great.

    • je_vv@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      cool that mull is found now on official f-droid repos, I had it installed from the divestos f-droid custom repo:

      https://divestos.org/fdroid/official

      Perhaps it’s better to use the the official f-drod one, I hope the official f-droid one doesn’t get updates too delayed compared to the divestos ones, :)

  • yxzi@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    you specifically asked to choose between the given options, but I’ll throw in Fennec into the mix, since it’s based on Firefox. pro: proprietary bits and telemetry have been removed con: still connects to various Mozilla and Google services that can track users

  • Helix@lemmy.ml
    37·
    3 years ago

    Your title is shit and you didn’t give any criteria on which to compare the browsers, you didn’t even specify why you limited the options to the five browsers mentioned. Please fix.