As per title, Help me choose a browser for android I have non rooted device. After all the researches I found best for me would be 1: Mull but with Some way for knowing which site have saved any data on my device (Maybe by extension or some defined page like about:config type) But as per my research I do not found any such thing. 2:Cromite or like it but with extension support like kiwi. 3:Privacy browser but just give assurance that google will not track me (as I have nonrooted device I have default webview).

I dont think that Vivaldi,Opera or brave stand anywhere when it is about privacy.

Help/advice/correct me!

  • viking@infosec.pub
    17·
    1 year ago

    Fennec (Firefox based), with Ghostery and uBlock origin installed.

    You’ll have to set add-ons up as a private collection for them to work, but it’s easy as pie.

        • Lemongrab
          1·
          1 year ago

          Just setup links to open in private browsing mode, and clear cookies on browser exit.

            • Lemongrab
              1·
              1 year ago

              Nope, you should set up site exception. Site exceptions are much better than just leaving cookies persistent. Cookies both function as a method to track and an easy way for a hacker to steal session tokens. Always prefer the native method, reducing attack surface and providing better function with browser APIs. Read the resource wiki linked from Arkenfox user.js

      • viking@infosec.pub
        2·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, I’ll look deeper into that. They have an adblocking engine as well though and catch a few random ones uBlock doesn’t, so I’m not totally convinced they are fully redundant.

          • viking@infosec.pub
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yes, and I do, and yet there are still some escapees. Might be a fringe case as I live in Asia, but at least for me it serves a purpose.

            • Nyfure@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Find the escapees, put them on the list or find a list including them for your particular use-case.
              I dont have much things getting through, mostly small sites displaying things, so i just add a filter myself.

              Afaik Ghostery was bought and started tracking its users… or was that another popular extension? Happened to alot of these… pretty sure it was Ghostery?

    • GrappleHat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      • Mull is similar to Fennec except with some privacy tweaks. Generally Mull is better.

      • You don’t need Ghostery anymore

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      7·
      1 year ago

      Ghostery sends like every website you visit to their servers. Its opt-out and Ublock origin is better anyways. Firefox really has a problem of not marking bad addons

    • Lemongrab
      2·
      1 year ago

      Mull works the same as Fennec, except it is hardended with patches from Tor and Arkenfox user.js. No real reason IMO to use fennec over Mull, whose developers also contribute to Fennec. Ghostery also changes your fingerprint, acting as one more data point. Mull has a whole bunch of configured flags to reduce fingerprinting, and many more to help with security (like disabling JIT).

      Check here for some comparisons:

      https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

      https://privacytests.org

      • viking@infosec.pub
        2·
        1 year ago

        Following the pro-Mull comments here I’ve given it a try for a solid 48h, and just reverted back to Fennec. Mull is simply restricting the user experience too much, and I’m not willing to make the sacrifice.

        My biggest annoyances:

        1. Websites don’t get information about dark mode from my device and revert back to light mode by default.
        2. Websites don’t get information about the system time on my phone and deliver content based on GMT+0.
        3. Some websites get wrong (or none?) information about the screen resolution and are unusable.

        I’m aware that those details are suppressed to avoid fingerprinting, and while I believe that the intention is good, it makes using my phone more cumbersome, and that’s not something I’m willing to do. So my choices at this point are basically to keep using Mull and deactivate the advanced fingerprinting protection, or use Fennec as before.

        • Lemongrab
          2·
          1 year ago

          Firefox resistant fingerprinting does the first 2 things, the last one is mobile partial letterboxing. All are anti fingerprinting techniques, but i understand how they may be restrictive. Maybe just add dark reader to have dark mode forced on websites, which technically can be fingerprinted but has a large userbase so idk.

      • viking@infosec.pub
        1·
        1 year ago

        You can delete cookies and data on a per-site basis, and advanced tracking protection prevents any nefarious websites from exploiting your browser. That’s all I care for.

          • viking@infosec.pub
            1·
            1 year ago

            No, I’m talking about Firefox. Fennec, that is, but the key functions are all the same.

            It’s not in the settings however, you need to open the site in question and press the lock icon in the address bar next to the URL, the context menu there allows to delete cookies and site specific data.

          • Lemongrab
            1·
            1 year ago

            Cookies are partitioned in Firefox strict mode IIRC.