What are the reasons for Mullvad and DDG not being android recommendations?

I know Firefox and its variants like nightly have security issues on Android. Maybe that explains Mullvad’s elimination as well. But I’m currently searching for an alternative to Brave, as it has been requiring captchas every time I search when my VPN is on for the last week or so. I never liked the company in the first place, especially after the affiliate link stuff.

I looked into Cromite, but after how Google has been acting recently, supporting anything Chromium is hard to justify to myself either. What are the reasons for not going with DDG or Mullvad? Just security?

Mullad browser is desktop only. They don’t have an Android version.
DuckDuckGo browser on Android uses the webview, which is Chromium based, so I don’t see how you’re avoiding Chromium with it. It’s not recommended because Android webview based browsers have security and privacy problems. DuckDuckGo Web Browser - #14 by anon51470692
Browsers - DivestOS Mobile

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Regarding DDG:
https://x.com/thezedwards/status/1528808795983319041
https://x.com/thezedwards/status/1528808759027331072

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What about DDG iOS? Is it private and secure?

This is what I found:
https://x.com/thezedwards/status/1528808795983319041

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On iOS there is little reason to use anything other than Safari.

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Even Brave iOS? I was thinking using two browsers would be better for my privacy so Facebook with Safari and general browsing with Brave. Good or bad idea? I’m trying to install and use as few apps as possible. The plan is to do as much as possible with a browser.

Why?

P.S. Sorry, maybe I’m missing something

On iOS, any app that can browse the web is restricted to using an Apple-provided WebKit framework, so a browser like Brave does not use the Chromium engine like its counterparts on other operating systems

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TY
Got it now

Although @SkewedZeppelin’s post doesn’t really seem to refer to this.
I most probably misunderstand.

All browsers on iOS use the Webview, so it’s alright from this aspect. Not sure how good they do on other stuff though, like tracker blocking and fingerprinting resistance.

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Brave has better content and ad-blocking than Safari extentions and allows for custom block lists.
Although I’ve had issues with them on occasion, it also adds features Safari doesn’t have like deleting browsing data on close (Auto-Shred)
That’s about it on benefits though. It’s otherwise subject to all the same weaknesses and limitations as Safari.

I don’t find Brave iOS delete data on close to be that effective. Did you find everything to be deleted?

You can use Private Browsing for a similar effect to deleting on closing the browser.
As far as content blocking, uBOL will have a stable release in iOS 18.6 hopefully. It’s good enough for most purposes.

Where did you get that information from?

Brave Auto Shred is inconsistent in my experience.

If I tell it to delete data on close it does do it if I fully close the app (swipe up on the app history thing) so I go with that.
Consistent at least on that, but quite a habit change if you tend to leave apps in the background.

Setting it to erase data on tab close doesn’t work based on the little testing I’ve done.

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There’s a beta program on Apple TestFlight (it’s already full).

I don’t keep up to date with it myself but I am expecting it to release within the next year and keeping a hopeful eye out.