I have been thinking about switching to brave for better fingerprinting protection

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      Mulch is tied to a specific Android ROM

      Yes, that’s because it requires webview to be patched, it’s the same reason that Vanadium is only available for GrapheneOS. They do use some of Vanadium’s patches though.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t want Brave on anything myself. The company has proven it isn’t trustworthy many times over.

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          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

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        As 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.

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        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.

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          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: https://divestos.org/fdroid/official

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            1 year ago

            Great, I’ll give that a try first. Still probably going to try DivestOS as well anyway, just for a fresh change.