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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Hmm, Brave browser (on mobile)? I thought that Brave is generally dismissed because of their silly crypto stuff, affiliate link controversy, and their CEO's poor stances on, well, lots of things. Any other mobile browser recommendations?

Otherwise, there are some omissions (Mullvad VPN) but this looks like a great list. Thanks for sharing.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Any other mobile browser recommendations?

    IronFox and Fennec. Both are hardened Firefox.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    https://grapheneos.org/usage source

    Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

    I still use ironfox because of uBlock and dark reader. Cromite is also good.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean firefox is not really usable on android, at least for me. While Brave has a bad reputation, there isn't any better than Brave, at least for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Firefox on Android requires a LOT of RAM because afaik it is the only modern mobile browser that truly implements its own web engine, rather than piggybacking on Android System WebView.

    It ran like crap on my low end Galaxy but I've had no issue with it since switching to a Pixel 8. If you're looking for speed over features while still being decently private, Firefox Focus is a nice simple choice, though it lacks most features of a modern browser.

    If you're looking exclusively for privacy-hardening though, nothing can really beat IronFox except maybe Vanadium (but that's GrapheneOS exclusive), and IronFox is the only one with extensive support for browser extensions.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There is a wide variety of quality with these recommendations / suggestions.

    For example its still lists calyxos which at the moment is dead and a site like privacytools which is basically an SEO farm.

    Generally people should avoid lists that do not provide any sort of criteria / transparency for whats on the list, regardless of the intention.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes that's a good disclaimer. I dont own or maintain this list so some tools may be out of date, compromised, or just not the latest and greatest option.

    That good practice for any list you find online.

    One of my favorites in this collection is the hitchhikers guide. Very in depth with tons of sources.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A privacy site which wants to collect and sell data, looks fishy...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Great list. I have never heard of picocrypt before. Definitely going to try it out. Thanks for posting

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Mojeek is a great search engine, Disroot.org provides e-mail and a Forgejo instance. openSUSE Tumbleweed is a German GNU/Linux distribution that is very good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for the share bro. I'm always down to learn something

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Such a good collection of resources! Thanks for sharing!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Don't forget massgrave and talon for Windows, very useful for a clean virtual machine.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    Unfortunately, RiMusic is dead now; I recommend Kreate, which is a fork of it

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.knighthat.kreate/
    https://github.com/knighthat/Kreate

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  • Good starter list of tools. Some things missing, so I won't call it a comprehensive list, but it doesn't seem it was ever meant to be that. So, all in all, very good collection.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    That privacy list seems, on first impression, not very well thought out, honestly.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    This list still recommends Bromite and Silence, which are both very dead. Bromite has been forked to Cromite.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Advocating for a shitcoin instead of a privacy-focused Bitcoin or Monero wallet is such a red flag

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Okay, whoever recommends Proton as a reliable source of online privacy should be immediately be seen as an op. That fucker caved under pressure by agencies.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are there any providers that refuse to comply with law enforcement? The best seems to be the ones that only collect the bare minimum amount of data in the first place

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    All companies have to comply with local laws. Even a huge company like Apple has to submit to laws of any country they operate in.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They purposely logged information in their mail servers which resulted in a protestor being arrested. You can easily design a service not to record such data (Ex: PIA).

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  • You talking about the French protester from several years ago? Yeah, bud didn't even take the smallest step, like using a vpn, to protect himself. At the time, Proton said if a vpn was used they wouldn't have any data to give to the cops.

    Same thing would have happened if the protester was using Tuta or any other email service.

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  • 3 comments in c/privacy@programming.dev view that post
    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This site is fucking fantastic.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Cool stuff! Some questionable options (Don't use Brave!) but nice idea overall

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