Recently there has been controversy around Mozilla Firefox.

I’ve been looking for an alternative but really struggling, seems like every alternative has a downside:

  • Vivaldi: Uses some proprietary code and likely not doing much better on the user data side of things, also based on Chromium.

  • Tor: Uses Tor protocol and so is quite slow, my ISP would probably also think I’m a drug lord.

  • Fennec: Basically looks the same as Firefox but guessing less up to date, F-Droid has a warning about it’s using Mozilla services for tracking.

What are you guys using? Have you found anything good?

  • Sonalder@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    So currently this is my recommendation for web browsers for Android.

    Chromium based (best for security on Android)

    • brave, disable cryptocrap, telemetry sponsor background and you’re pretty much good to go.
    • cromite, an active fork of bromite which is basically an upgrade of ungoogled chromium
    • Vanadium, if you are using GrapheneOS

    Firefox based browser (none support per-site isolation as of today)

    • IronFox, a active fork of Mull, basically the most harden FF flavor on Android
    • Fennec, basically a fully libre FF flavor
    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      How do you feel about DDG browser? It’s another chrome based option. I’ve been using it when the some rare website won’t work in a Firefox fork, and I’m curious to hear other people’s opinions about it.

      I like their free email forwarding service for throwaway accounts. Obviously, they aren’t private in any way.