Opening a thread to discuss two things: First: Recommending Mull, available from F-Droid . Obviously there is not a lot of diversity in our mobile browser recommendations, and Brave heading down the bloatware route they’re annoying me more and more lately. Secondly, Mull is obviously a Gecko brows…

Add Mull (Mobile Browser) main ← jonaharagon/add-mull opened 10:57PM - 30 Mar 24 UTC (UTC) [image] jonaharagon …

I’ll share my perspective on why I prefer the Session/Matrix approach over the F-Droid approach in this instance, for your consideration. These two cases are the only instances where we make these “half-recommendations” for security-related reasons, if I recall correctly: F-Droid’s has a major f…

[image] jonah: I’ll share my perspective on why I prefer the Session/Matrix approach over the F-Droid approach in this instance, for your consideration. That’s solid reasoning, thank you for sharing it. Sorry if I’m a bit harsh sometimes. Still, ofc I can only refer to what’s written here. I…

[image] iustitia: I take it that means you consider not having a built-in content blocker to be worse than using Gecko instead of Chromium? Is that based on security or usability concerns? Well, the ability to control which scripts are running on your device and who they’re delivered by has p…

[image] jonah: Well, the ability to control which scripts are running on your device and who they’re delivered by has privacy advantages that are related to both security and usability, but wouldn’t really fall into either category. Agreed, but I was mainly wondering specifically about what h…

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. There’s been a lot of good points in this entire discussion and I don’t have much to add, overall I’m for recommending Mull (a…

Personally, I’m already frustrated that Brave is recommended before Firefox, whether on PCs or smartphones, especially in view of the various scandals that have occurred in the past. Firefox is the ‘only’ browser that isn’t based on Chronium and that’s doing more and more to improve security and pri…

[image] Pragmatic: especially in view of the various scandals that have occurred in the past. What scandals exactly? How does this impact the security and privacy of brave? Honestly, I can’t listen to this old nonsense anymore…

badness enumeration Isn’t it the same with DNS blocking or VPNs with such functionality? They’re also based on blacklists. In my opinion: Mulch and Vanadium may have some extra security benefits, but without a built-in content blocker, it just doesn’t make sense to recommend them as a privacy br…

[image] jonah: F-Droid’s has a major flaw (IMO), namely that packages are signed by F-Droid rather than the developer. This has significant real-world impact on regular users: it actively prevents the developer from delivering updates directly if need be, and it stops you from easily switching a…

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Well, each discussion is specific to the individual tool being suggested, so they’re mostly-ish independent of other tool suggestions. You can vote for and provide feedback about Cromite here:

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