I turned off the Vanadium adblocker and use private Mullvad DNS to block ads. Blocks away more ads.
I used to use Vanadium with Protons Netshield, it was decent, saw a couple of ads here and there. Recently switched to IVPN and have been using it with their restrictive list…haven’t seen an add since.
As for recommending Vanadium, I don’t think they will since it’s strictly for GrapheneOS. But regardless, it’s widely used and recommended within the Graphene community.
It doesn’t make any sense to turn it off.
Vanadium isn’t available to Pixel Phones broadly, it is available only on GOS afaik.
Generally speaking, there is no reason not to use a browser based content blocker and dns based blocker in combination. I assume that applies to Vanadium.
DNS based filtering is an exception to the usual advice not to run more than one adblocker at a time. And DNS based filtering has the added advantage of covering your whole device, not just the browser.
prob true as you are only trusting grapheneOS.
cromite is of course provided by a “3rd party”.
Cromite:
- No CFI.
- Uses Adblock Plus.
- Adds JPEG-XL.
- Doesn’t support MTE, unlike Vanadium.
- Maintained by a single guy.
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Only Vanadium and Mulch browsers support CFI and MTE. Source
Those are the only two that I would recommend.
Brave is also a good choice if you want a more powerful adblocker and some fingerprint randomization.
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Good. It’s the image format of the future and imo absolutely worth the extra ‘attack surface’
Wonder why Google and Brave haven’t added it yet, I think the answer is obvious.
@Rasta The previous posts got removed from the topic, but I’m still waiting to hear about what issues Vanadium has.
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Maybe a sentence or two about Vandium in the section on Graphene would be helpful. For example, what situations you would use Vandium, or how to choose between Vandium and an alternative like Brave or Mull.
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I think we could give a similar recommendation to the one for iOS. Use Vanadium or Safari, but if you need stronger content filtering or more features, then Brave is the way to go.
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Yes it’s obvious, because google is a fucking monopoly and would prefer to just support their own stuff (webp), and the backlash is not big enough for brave to reimplement support (unlike something like mv2)
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GrapheneOS will soon become an even more versatile (and hopefully common) tool in peoples’ setups through Android 16 Desktop Mode, so Vanadium will kind of be cross platform in the sense that it can be viably used for both mobile and desktop. Therefore, I would like this Tool Suggestion to be reevaluated.
which it still won’t get added until Vanadium is cross-platform. It seems ever since then we did get content filtering and major improvements, however vanadium is still limited to GrapheneOS, end of story.
it doesn’t even work?
you can use GrapheneOS based on Android 16 for a few days now if you enable alpha updates.
it does. Why do you think it doesn’t?
it doesn’t.
they never get loaded. you can verify this by going vanadium > settings > about vanadium. and checking the “subresource filter rules version”, it should NOT be one and instead should be 106.
the question you should be asking isnt this, is that if it is effective, tested on techradar, notorious a bit for it’s ads and it works