Firefox on android for privacy?
I was using brave before and decided to switch to firefox but I did some research and turns out firefox collects way more by default than brave and I am switching back, what do you think?
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I will also recommend Mull, it's a hardened Firefox and can pretty much be described as Librewolf for Android
grapheneOS devs say Firefox is unsafe, but I think they say that for anything that isn't Vanadium (their own browser)
which is just another chromium browser; kinda contra-productive of them.
Untill we get a gecko webview , you are using chromium based , whatever browser you are using. So yea the options are or use chromium or chromium plus Firefox.
As others have said: Mull (which is based on FireFox) + uBlock Origin is the way to go.
If for any reason you need a Chromium-based browser: Cromite.
Use Mull -- it's like LibreWolf, for your phone
Fennec works well
Just turn off studies, pocket and change default search.
Not using Chromium is about preventing the WEI rollout.
@spez I use Mull (https://f-droid.org/es/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/) for Android and Librewolf for desktop. If you want the more convenient way to use Mull on Android, NeoStore (https://f-droid.org/es/packages/com.machiav3lli.fdroid/) is the way. They even have DivestOS official repo.
I don't know how it stacks up but there's also DuckDuckGo's browser - it has the added benefit of 'App Tracking Protection' which stops other apps from collecting data in the background by using a local VPN. Crazy how much it blocks - even for apps that haven't been launched at all recently.
Can you share what tracking data Firefox connects by default on Android?
Look into mullvad browser for a out of the box private browsing experience, no tweaking required.
It's based on tor browser, based on Firefox.
Firefox has specific issues that chromium based browsers don't. A big one is site isolation or keeping one website from accessing data from another. Those problems are worse on Android than desktop. I do use Firefox with uBlock on desktop but Brave on my phone.
Mull and Tor Browser