ex-AOSP dev & ex-Chromium codebase fiddler here
Don’t bother. Critiques don’t even know the half of what it takes to mod mega projects like AOSP / Chromium and will throw in whatever analysis that suits their priors.
I have and always remained dumbfounded by your resourcefulness & relentlessness; the amount of work you got done with limited support & sponsorship was unreal. What an amazing run!
Wishing you the best.
Hopefully someone comes up with Firefox for Android hardening guide to begin to replace Mull. Mullvad Browser for Android pretty please?
Thank you so much for your work
I just wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your incredible commitment to developing and maintaining such outstanding software products over the years. Your passion and dedication to providing these tools for free have made a significant impact on many users, including myself.
Wish I was as half as smart and tenacious as you - you’ve done some great work. I’m a mere application developer, and systems devs seem to have arcane knowledge of the systems they work with. Kudos, I’ll try to find your Patreon or something to buy you a drink or ten.
Donations are no longer accepted. Thank you to everyone for your support over the years. -Tavi
Glad I stopped using Mull browser a while ago; I had a feeling this would happen eventually. After this and Bromite, I think privacy guides should stop recommending browsers from projects like these and just stick with products made by companies that are well-established like Brave and Firefox. The same will happen to Cromite eventually; it’s just a matter of time.
Thank you for your hard work. Good luck with your future projects.
He literally maintained Mull for years. All Mull users just need to install a different browser and stop being so dramatic.
It’s not like Mull was an email provider or something, and now everyone has a headache and needs to migrate to another provider.
Not really agreeing with you. Not everyone is as tech savvy and people might have helped their family in using this. Switching is always a pain. This is a reason we need stable recommendations. Not trying to discredit the great efforts here but this is more of a general comment. This stands alone of my appreciation of the work done here too.
Ain’t nobody installing Mull for someone who isn’t tech savvy. It’s like setting up arkenfox on grandmas PC.
For 99.99%, they just go to the Play Store and install Brave.
I hope you are right. Anyway I want to focus on things I can recommend to each and everyone. It makes it more future proof and simple.
Thanks for everything, man. I am a middle aged guy. I somehow wish I can go back in time and be like you. I’ve always had fascination and curiousity for tech but somehow my career choice went into a different far away direction.
I wonder if being a solo dev is too much a heavy burden. I look at my kids and I ask myself how can my kids be a good open source advocate. Coders, even. I know the Open Source Greybeards seem to be getting older and older and we wonder where are all the young kids at. I’ve heard they seem to be out there thriving, its just that they are solving the problems in front of them, rather than the infrastructure that we have now.
I wished I could have helped you unburden your dev load so that it doesnt feel to be alone but I dont know how to code. I wish my kids can too but they have other childish things in mind right now. Maybe someday.
Anyway, you seem to be a really smart person and I see that not all your projects have stopped. So we wish you well in your next chapter of projects.
And thank you for all of your work over the years. Best of luck with whatever is next 
Very sad to be reading this! Thank you Tavi, I have enjoyed using Mull as well as DOS on my EOL devices for a number of years. Good luck with your future endeavors.
@SkewedZeppelin If you are willing to share, which mobile OS and mobile browser will you be switching to personally?
Or more likely, he will just use GrapheneOS.
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Especially in the era of devices recieving 7 years of support. You can easily buy a 2 year old device for cheap and keep it for 5 more years.
Using DivestOS was, in itself, far from ideal.
I think it’s only cheap in some countries. Mine Pixels aren’t even available here, it’s hard enough to get a reputable Pixel, let alone a trustworthy refurbished shop.
That said, I’m still saving money to hopefully have enough to buy one. My current situation is less than ideal 
Moreover, very few devices are able to relocked their bootloader, meaning most devices lose verity boot when using a custom ROM, which IMO a huge security issue.
Starting from Galaxy A1x series releasing in 2024 (A16), Samsung provides 6 years of update. And before that, it’s 5 years for their mid-range devices. While flagships get 7 years support.
I don’t agree with @Apollyon completely. because:
4 people has send disagree to @Apollyon message. But nobody writes a solution or what is wrong with that message. I see communication problems on open-source projects…