Revisit first criterion on the Mobile Browsers page

Affected Page

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/#criteria

Description

In the context of the currently recommended mobile browsers, I find the following criterion for evaluating them strange:

Must support automatic updates.

For Brave (Android), links to the Google Play Store and GitHub releases are provided, both of which support automatic background updates (the latter through Obtainium, which is recommended on Privacy Guides).

For Mull, links to F-Droid repositories are provided; F-Droid Basic (recommended on the site for extraordinary cases) and F-Droid proper both support automatic background updates.

For Safari, it is updated through iOS system updates. According to this support article, the user does need to opt in to automatic system updates.

Regardless, the above criterion requiring support for automatic updates seems misplaced since it is the methods of obtaining each browser that handle automatic updates, not the browser itself.

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