One of the main contributors to Bromite has now officially forked it and created Cromite. [image] GitHub - uazo/cromite: Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and... Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser! …

@Tech-Trooper Unlike Bromite/Cromite, Brave still contains proprietary components.

the guy who is working on cromite was a major contributor to the original bromite

[image] anon63378630: Unlike Bromite/Cromite, Brave still contains proprietary components. We need cromite vs brave mobile showdown fr fr

To get an answer to your question, you should explain why did you trust the main developer of Bromite.

[image] anon63378630: updates can take up to two weeks Quickly looking through the releases since July I’m not seeing examples of this being the case… I found a couple releases which were ~4 days delayed around a month ago, but otherwise I’m largely seeing updates in about a day. It looks lik…

[image] Mull (Android Browser) + Criteria Change FWIW I think Cromite being recommended would make much more sense than Vanadium or Mulch, I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned or brought up already in these discussions. Cromite does not enable CFI any longer: Drop cfi support · uazo/cromite…

Hmmm, wasn’t aware of that. Does Brave enable CFI on their Android builds in comparison?

[image] jonah: but if you added a Cromite column to the more detailed history section I’m sure I and others would appreciate it The issue with this and also comparing dates, is that they do not ship the actual stable channel versions. This makes it difficult to line up with the rest and whil…

to my understanding, CFI is.. a good thing? may you elaborate?

@yes CFI largely eliminates an entire class of security vulnerabilities. @Sharply I don’t think Brave ships with CFI.

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Cromite does not enable CFI any longer: Drop cfi support · uazo/cromite@579060f · GitHub

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