Privacy

31872 readers

548 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Best firefox build for android? (leaf.dance)

submitted 8 months ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

For a time it was Fennic for addon support but now that Firefox mobile has addons are there better alternatives? Those of you on android, what's your go to?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] silent_squirrel@feddit.de 37 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Mull (from the DivestOS developers)

But nowadays I'm using a Chromium based browser on my phone because Firefox on Android doesn't support process isolation

[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

+1 for Mull.

And yeah, on Android unfortunately you gotta choose between privacy (Firefox/Mull) or security (Chromium).

[–] degen@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago

Another for Mull and Cromite, here. I don't really use Mull unless I'm looking for absolute compatibility with things like web games.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Mull is reasonably secure for most of the people. Only very high targets need that kind of security

[–] PirateMike94@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Why not both, with Brave? I know their are kinda hated for making changes without warning the user, but it seems to be the closest thing to a fairly private and secure browser... Plus they have a whole team behind it, not just some guy in his basement (nothing against guys in their basements btw, it's just harder to be on top of security issues when you're one).

[–] Delusion6903@discuss.online 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, they need to fix that

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would be great to hear the implication of that

[–] silent_squirrel@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here you can find a good explanation on that.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would still need an Android system/kernel exploit to further escape the system sandbox. It is an important hardening feature, but the browser isn't completely insecure without it

So what? You can go back to firefox for that reasoning unless you are a very very high target

[–] silent_squirrel@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the sentence before that? A malicious website could read data from other websites(opened in different tabs), and also passwords stored in the browser, etc... There is no additional system exploit needed for that

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes. It doesn't apply to me. I am no very high target.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

What @silent_squirrel@feddit.de mentioned does not require a targetted attack.