pretty good, the built in adblock isn't much sophisticated tho. fenix with ublock origin is superior unless you really need chromium.
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Yeah just noticed people posting about Brave and this has worked as a better "Chrome on hard difficulty" without you know putting ads on the homescreen and coiner meme shit nobody likes
What happened to bromite?
Project was abandoned like multiple years ago now. Cromite is a fork by one of the contributors and is better than Bromite ever was.
But still based on Chromium? Is that project in itself trustworthy?
I routinely use Cromite and IronFox (closest to LibreWolf for android). Have Brave for logging into accounts with some adjustment and For browser for checking flights or discounts etc.
I'm not really clear on how Brave fares versus regular Chromium or something, but that's pretty much how I use Android. Technically my default browser is Linksheet, which rules
But LinkSheet isn't a browser, is it? Isn't it just a helper app that lets us decide which browser to use ad hoc?
I'm with you and not perfectly sure that Brave is the best, but I reserve it for my logged in accounts only. IronFox and Cromite both set to private with no history or logs, and used for single use opening of links from Lemmy etc. Trying to isolate / separate third party cookies and tracking as I can. I also use Rethink DNS as firewall and with three filters for whole android device.
Nothing as sleazy as Brave should be on our devices tbqh there has to be something with a similar balance of website breaking & adblocking + degoogling
Yeah Rethink is dope I see we have both pulled all of the good Fdroid apps :^]
It's easier to use and has built-in ad blocking, nothing more.
I have been using this as my daily driver on my Android phone for the past year or so because there is no LibreWolf for Android. No complaints.
Ironfox is good for now. It's a Mull fork iirc - it's on Izzyondroid, Obtainium, Accrescent, FFUpdater
I like Iceraven.
This has been my go-to on GrapheneOS. Glad to see it get some notice.
Apparently the Graphene devs look down on them according tl other replies. 🤔 Maybe I will check out Vanadium. Cromjte can't be as bad as Brave tho lol
What make you prefer it to vanadium?
The ability to use a custom search engine (searXNG) and the accessibility/UI features.
Cromite is bad browser and shouldnt be used. Use vivaldi or iron fox instead
Cromite including the incredibly sketchy Eyeo content filtering engine and stuff like additional codecs goes against what we're trying to achieve. We also don't think the randomization-based anti-fingerprinting approach works, among other issues. We care about implementing things properly instead of rushing to have as long of a feature list as possible at the expense of robustness, privacy, security and maintainability. It probably won't last with the way they're taking things.
Source: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16562-browser-mulch-vs-cromite/13
Oh thanks! Honestly the Github seemed impressive and the "generic" style of the whole thing sucked me in. Didn't check on the Graphene forums. This site seems to have the same issue as Xitter where my worst posts do well and my best posts are never seen by anyone.
Is there a better Chromium option than Vivaldi? I honestly only use Chromium like once every three weeks when I need to get into my shitty university website
Vanadium would be better option but only if you use grapheneos
Ahh thanks I think I bookmarked that and forgot
I wish it was on flatpak/flathub, favourite chromium browser if I need to use chromium for any reason.
While I agree it would be nice, Flatpak weakens the Chromium sandbox by stopping proper per site isolation. Chromium in Flatpak relies on the zypak server in place of proper strict isolation.
i never knew that, i always thought chromium under flatpak was using Chromiums sandbox.
then its better to install any Chromium/electron apps outside of sandbox/flatpak which is hard on majority of distros.
Oh dang I didn't know
Firefox is even more insecure as a Flatpak than Chromium. At least with Chromium using zypak it can use some Flatpak sandboxing (which is still inferior to base)
Just use ungoogled. It's decent enough.
Doesnt come with proper fingerprinting protections or flag hardening. I am not saying ungoogled Chromium is bad, just not a proper replacement for hardened chromium browsers like Cromite or Brave. Ungoogled Chromium is a drop in replacement for Chrome, so it does nearly everything possible to stick with defaults (sans any google connections)
True, but it feels more barbones ngl.
On arch based Chromite isn't a problem, but on Debian or other distros yeah it is a problem.
why is it bare bones and it doesnt have the features found in chromite:
Ungoogled chromium focuses more on vanilla chromium without Google components
no built in adblock (useful after google killed manifest v3)
No fingerprint blocking
no privacy features
I thought it stopped development a couple years ago on android.
Has the original developer of Bromite ever reappeared to let us know he's alright?
I didn't realize they vanished
Reason for the fork
I just thought he dipped I don't always check what's up with the community of the software I'm using is about unless I am deploying it. (Didn't even realize Mull's dev Divested Computing Group (which was more like Divested Computing One Really Industrious Fellow it turns out) shut down for like a month so I am trying to set up more notifications.) My mobile browser is barely even a part of my workflow. I appreciate you telling me because a lot of creepy things happen to privacy researchers!!! And then people just forget!!!!!
He was ukrainian I believe, so it may just have been war related. Forgot password and had a password manager or sum. I don't think he was violated as an individual. DivestOS: Yeah, it's just been him. And he has been doing a phenomenal job, exceeding many groups. But he said that after 10 years of the same thing he wanted to do something else.
Oh that boy is in smithereens, goodness gracious. They've been putting pilots and shit in the infantry. Military pilots. Random coder? Fuck
That would be a shame. I think he might've been smart enough to flee though, since the war wasn't even that known to me at the time. So it's been a while back.
Smart enough to flee doesn't necessarily make you lucky enough to make it out
Yes, but at that point you wouldn't be allowed to server.
Great for my tablet which is too weak to run IronFox smoothly. One annoyance is that it'll insist on a refresh if your internet connection is interrupted or changes in any way. The reason for it is not immediately obvious and neither is the option to turn it off (Settings > Homepage > Ask to restart on connection change)