Hey everybody. I’m somewhat new to the field of privacy, but I am eager to learn. Right now I am wondering what mobile web browser to use for everyday activities. I’m running GrapheneOS. Options that often come to mind:
- Tor
- Firefox Focus (= Firefox Klar in German)
- IronFox (formerly Mull Browser)
- Cromite
- Vanadium
I feel like I simply don’t know enough about the underlaying mechanisms to elaborate which might be better and which might be worse. Feel free to teach me!
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i’d just use ironfox with ublock origin
Considering that already. Do you experience any problems or limitations with that? Like being flagged as a bot, or sites returning errors?
Edit: thank you for the suggestion!
Rarely. I would say that about 19/20 pages work as expected. I do keep a manually hardened Firefox install on my device for the rare site that I do want to visit but that doesn’t load in IronFox for some reason. In my experience, VPN breaks the internet more than IronFox does. And I still want to use VPN.
i haven’t really used ironfox, i use iceraven. i actually also use numatrix alongside ublock origin.
i do see more captchas compared to common browsers like google chrome.
Right now I use IronFox for browsing and Vanadium for websites I stay logged into. But the best one depends on your threat model.
Why not
LibrefoxLibrewolf? As far as I recall it’s basically hardened Firefox.I think you meant librewolf ? And if so, I believe it is desktop only.
Yeh I meant that one, corrected, thanks!
There is LibreLynx Lite on F-Droid, but it is very bare bones. Do not recommend, especially while IronFox exists.
On my phone I currently have the standard eOS browser, IronFox and Fennec installed. Only Fennec came with a new tracker after install, so that is going out again. Have used IronFox for at least the last year until I recently bought a FairPhone with eOS, so can recommend that as a daily driver.
Firefox Focus with AdGuard DNS
Vanadium on grapheneOS and using a privacy-preserving VPN.
IronFox and Vanadium.
Ironfox, though the main issue with all mobile browsers imo is no letterboxing, so if you enable Javascript, your phone screen size can be detected and used for fingerprinting
I also use Vanadium on GrapheneOS
The lack of nice ad-blocking has me favor things like Iceraven, but for pure privacy it can’t be beaten
I’m on tailscale and have it route all traffic through my home server which runs pi.hole so…it ain’t that bad ¯\(ツ)/¯
