Honestly the lack of ad blockers in Vanadium pushes me towards Firefox even though the devs say that Firefox is far less secure. So many web sites are just hard to use on mobile without an ad blocker so I’m curious what the rest of you are doing.
Mull
I have the same reasons for using mull (Firefox fork). I love having an adblocker along side my VPN’s ad block. I also hate the chromium UI/UX, mostly because the search bar is on the top of the screen.
I like Mull the best. It’s pretty much just Firefox+arkenfox for mobile
Except for gecko mobile not having per-site process issolation (Fission) I get it though, its has good anti fingerprinting, isnt chromium, and has compatibility with Firefox addons (you can get around the mobile only requirement by importing a custom collection, which iirc requires Dev mode)
The amount of Firefox fanboys who will get mad at you for mentioning Android Firefox missing per-site process isolation. I’ve basically made the choice to not mention it anymore because I always get harassed whenever I do lol…
Firefox on desktop is awesome, Mobile should be avoided.
I’m willing to bet you get “harassed” for your smug attitude, not for mentioning that fact.
not sure how I’m being smug (please point to my excessive pride in my achievements) but okay, “harassed” is deffo a overstatement but I’m just sick of people like this https://lemmy.nz/comment/1506835 while I’m trying to help people.
But aside that, people shouldn’t be a asshole to someone just because they come off smug 🤷
With that link I just see your comment and no replies (maybe my instance doesn’t federate with theirs).
But look at just this thread: your other comment is you telling someone what they use is bad and providing no reasoning as to why.
Then when you get downvoted for contributing nothing of value, you whine about it and begrudgingly post the reasoning you should have shared from the beginning.
That’s a shitty attitude that’s going to net you downvotes and negative replies, and you shouldn’t be surprised by it.
yes you must not be federated.
My other comment what you must be referring to is “most insecure android stack”, doesn’t have references I agree & it probably should (thats why i edited it to include them) but its also on people to do their own research and if someone is commenting that their stack is insecure, maybe that person could ask me why or do a little research themselves.
Shocker not every comment I make will be prefect & if people genuinely wanted to learn ask questions!
Also this whole idea that its a “negative attitude” is insane, I’m literally telling someone the software they use is insecure
This is a link to you trashing firefox mobile for not having site isolation by default and disregarding the person that corrected you
How did I disregard it? He literally provided a reference what countered his own point.
Like please, if you actually have a point to make. I’d love to know how he corrected me at all
fission is functional with no noticeable issues on Firefox mobile as of like ~ff115/116. it just has to be manually enabled in
about:config.Its considered a highly experimental feature, so enabling it could result in unknown issues or even security issues.
Also Firefox still lacks isolatedProcess https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565196
I’d imagine Firefox would enable Fission by default if it was actually ready.
FF
You could use DNS and stick with Vanadium. AdGuard, nextdns, decloudus, Mullvad… all good for ad blocking and probably more effective as it’s system wide
DNS blocking is different than content blocking. A content blocker like ublock can block more than just domains by injecting scripts into DOM (iirc im not a webdev)
This is what I ended up opting for and it works very well
Bromite before it died, RIP :( Vanadium now with regular dns adblocking where security matters, Fennec where it doesn’t.
There is a fork of Bromite, called Cromite, if you’re interested.
This one looks cool, but I am so used to having a sync service that I can’t enjoy it fully :/
Mull with Adblock plus, Ghostery and Decentral eyes. Btw. I hope they soon update their icon to be Material theme compatible.
Honest question: is using those 3 addons better than sticking to just uBlock Origin?
I have read multiple times that the best is to just uBlock Origin and nothing else, since other addons are redundant and together will make your fingerprint easier to recognize.
Honest answer, I don’t know. I will for sure not install another extension. What I like from Ghostery is the “auto decline cookie banner” funktion.
uBlock Origin also has this functionality in its “annoyances” list category
I just tried it and it did not work for a website I often visit.
Mull with ublock origin, always on VPN to my house with pihole for DNS.
I use Firefox for the “installed” web pages for quick access to internal things like Sonarr since Mull would log me out fairly often.
Mull with ubo
I flip between Mull and Cromite.
What’s cromite ?
Prettt sure it’s the updated Bromite fork
Yes, it’s the fork of Bromite that uazo is maintaining.
Mull, Fennec on mobile and Librewolf on laptop
really want to like vanadium, but it’s giving me a unique fingerprint… So I am currently using Brave
Fennec, Firefox from the f-droid-store
The most insecure Android stack
Edit: Because people will just blindly down vote this, here is some references to help you make more informed choices
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-site-isolation-security-architecture/
I disagreed particularly with:
Furthermore, F-Droid doesn’t enforce a minimum target SDK
While yes, this may be a bad thing for some, certain apps, like termux (terminal emulator, even lets you make a linux chroot, some ppl play games using wine in it) only work properly on sdk’s older than a certain version, since newer versions can be somewhat locked down.
I don’t want to say that that article is “google good, f droid bad”, but that’s what a lot of what it’s points are. It completely neglects to mention the downsides of google’s various security models, especially for a foss community like this one. App bundles, for instance, are secure yes. But they are also an advanced form of drm (at least when made by google), must be compiled server side for each device, and other things that make them not work for the foss community.
And criticizing f Droid because it has multiple repos? That criticism is completely incompatible with the common FLOSS ideas that things should be less centralized.
Don’t get me wrong, some of the points it brings up are valid, but they are biased, only focusing on on one side.
And I also don’t feel the need to be alarmed by these points. What does it matter that google signs everything (in a supposedly better way) when “everything” includes malware?
As usual, no app or product can replace human discernment. Security is a process, not a product.
You could just keep vanadium and change the DNS of your phone for mullvad DNS for exemple to block the ads in (nearly ) every app.
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I dont think regular (also not really privacy friendly) Firefox is more secure than hardened Firefox nightly.
Btw Mull from FDroid is a prehardened version of nightly.
