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Every one really shits on brave so i decided to use Fennec from now on (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm on android

So i downloaded fennec today and it seems to be pretty good, and quick aswell. But the settings are kinda confusing, for now tho!

I have already enabled ublock, Clearurls and Privacy Badger.

What other settings would you recommend to make fennec even more privacy hardened?

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[–] promitheas@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Brave Shields block ads and trackers by default, and they’re built natively in the Brave browser—no extensions required. Since Shields are patched directly onto the open-source Chromium codebase, they don’t rely on MV2 or MV3.

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I honestly don't understand why Firefox bothers with a google manifest.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, I never even knew Brave had that stuff built in, i switched from Chrome years ago and installing ublock origin had already just become the default thing I do to any browser first thing by that point. Though I will note this line in the link you provided:

For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

Which suggests that they're planning to eventually be forced into Manifest V3 (or something similar) to gimp those extensions, but I s'pose I'll give it a shot without ublock and see how it goes. Firefox has given me trouble in a bunch of ways (not remembering per-page zoom, hotkeys changing on me unexpectedly, issues with reddit/lemmy on long posts, etc) and I wouldn't mind switching back.

[–] promitheas@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The way I understand it is that you dont need the extensions if you use brave (i dont have any of those installed and just use as strict shield settings as I can) but they will support them for as long as possible for those who also want to use the extensions. Brave seems to use a modified version of the chromium engine in their browser which includes the shields.

The only issues ive had so far are with youtube's recent "3 strikes" message, which gets fixed by brave within a couple of days to make yt unable to detect that brave is using (or is itself) an ad blocker.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Interesting, I'll definitely have to give it a shot. I really want to like Firefox, but it just has lots of little issues that never quite get resolved. That per-page zoom thing has been all over the forums and bug trackers for years and still doesn't have a fix. Gonna have to figure out how to import all my passwords and shit back over to Brave tho, that was kinda a pain going to Firefox. :P