Saw this in my adguard home query logs.
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Try to disable telemetry.
What browser should I use on mobile? I use Librewolf on desktop since it runs fine, and the vertical tabs are great, and it looks nice.
On mobile though there’s a lot of problems with the browser space:
- Chrome: runs great but is obviously not good for privacy
- Firefox: what most people recommend, but it has terrible performance, looks not great, and doesn’t even have more than basic fingerprinting protection, and literally includes ads by default.
- Brave: people tend to dislike brave here, but it runs well (since it’s chromium based) and has at least better fingerprinting protection.
What other options are there?
Safari
yeah lemme just pull out safari on android and linux for its insane fingerprinting protection and great content blocking support
IronFox, Fennec Fox
hmmm
i never get the performance part.
what the fuck are you doing where you can even notice performance differences?
nobody should use vanilla firefox. the extensions are the vital part of it
Tbh firefox performs great and works for me, and its issues can be fixed with extensions and settings, both on desktop and mobile. I never looked for anything else myself. I also like to use a browser that is not chromium-based, I do not want google to have the monopoly.
maybe I am just not picky, but if you need more privacy than what can be achieved with a hardened firefox config you might be better off using TOR at that point.
Haha
Brave is like the ExpressVPN of browsers
You can stop it in settings just like any other browser. I still will use Brave as my choice of browsers.
I trust Techlore. How come you guys are so anti? Idc what the CEO talks about
It’s suspicious instead.
Brave is a scam.
I’ve never really had a comfortable feeling about Brave. I have no substantiating evidence, it just seems a bit squirrely. Besides the Tor browser, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and FireFox are the only acceptable browsers as far as I’m concerned, tho I don’t come down on those seeking an alternative to Google Chrome.
Any alternative to brave in iOS with adblocker? (I know, probably use another OS)
Vivaldi for iOS, it has an inbuild ad- and trackerblocker
General practice, I do not use my phone as a compute platform. I realize others cannot do the same all the time. I do run firefox and a VPN which has an adblocker as part of it’s tool set.
Far as I remember any browser in iOS is a scam anyways because Apple forces any browser in their platform to be based off of the same engine as Safari.
Yea, fuck webkit
AFAIK at least in the EU because have to admit also browsers with a different engine as WebKit. WebKit is same as Blink a fork from the KHTML engine by KDE, butway less advanced as Blink or Gecko, who outscore WebKit in modern webformats. This is why Apple don’t want other browsers which make Safari obsolete. Anyway, sooner or later Safari will be the next IE.
Sooner or later? They already are lol
Yes, but I won’t be so harsh
Orion can use Chrome and Firefox plugins. Works great!
Not so much no
Can you suggest a better alternative browser for android?
The first browser on this list is Brave lmao
There is at least one more 🙂
IronFox
How does IronFox compare to LibreWolf?Am dumb, missed the “for android” part.
I use IronFox too, but I’d say depending on your goal even Fennec+uBlockOrigin is a pretty good setup.
If you want to go chromiun-based then Cromite (similar in scope to IronFox).
Fennec and Cromite is always outdated compared to their upstream. If you care about security it is quite problematic. I recommend just install UBlock on Firefox then use Arkenfox, or Betterfox on it. It is a bit more complex to do on android, but it is possible. If anyone is interested here is a tutorial
the crypto browser? it’s not private and never was
better than stock chrome or edge. Not better than Mullvad Browser.
It’s more private but doesn’t have 0 telemetry. You can disable some telemetry in settings. But it still has to make requests for update checks if using Windows or MacOS.
I’m a grown adult and can check for updates my own damn self. This phone-home telemetry in the guise of updating bullshit needs to stop
Then use an actual private browser and not some techbro cryptobrowser.
Name them.
They have already been named in other comments. you’re a grownup, you could probably read them yourself.
Only one other was named and its not sufficient because its not truly private. Please name them
Then as a grown adult, you can make your chrome policy.json to disable the automatic updates.
And being an adult has nothing to do with it. If left to their own devices, most people will simply not update. Some people actively resist updates. Linux Mint had some statistics that showed that like half of their users were running severely out of date versions, so they had to change things.
Wait a minute. How did they collect those statistics?
Yahoo collected data and shared it with Linux Mint. Also, Mint analyzed downloads for its packages.
Librefox then? Or what are you guys using?
IronFox, or WebLibre which is pretty new but promising in my opinion
TIL, weblibre exists. Thx stranger.
For the lazy ones. https://github.com/FaFre/WebLibre
Vivaldi. The tab management is unparalleled, and the chrome extensions I depend on still work. I’ve been using it for many years now and have no regrets. I also use NextDNS and see no signs of it doing anything unexpected.
Brave (the company) has a long history of doing dodgy stuff. They are just trying to do what Google did (directing clicks to their own shit), but they’re using privacy as their marketing spiel.
I think you can disable the telemetry in the Brave settings. Maybe try that. Otherwise, if that doesn’t work, your best bet is something Firefox-based if you’re on desktop (hardened to the nines, with uBO, LibRedirect and an email aliasing service extension like SimpleLogin). If on mobile, there are other Webkit browsers like Snowhaze and Orion that are pretty good.
Just use Firefox for gods sakes, Brave is a complete joke of a browser especially when it comes to privacy.
Yeah, doing any kind of digging into Brave will immediately send up warning flares that the privacy claims are pure fluff. Just use Firefox or Librewolf.
Firefox is great. Librewolf if you’re extra keen on privacy.
