I use brave for daily browsing all the crap with brave shild, deleteing cookies on close, ... And Vanadium when I log in (here, GitHub, ...).
Does anyone actually use vanadium?
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Vanadium is my only browser, too. Why? Security and all sites work without tinkering. It has got a reduced attack surface. For Adblocking (I cherish an ad-free surfing experience) I use Mullvad DNS or VPN. Depending on my use case.
I even use Vanadium twice: Once in my main profile and once in my work profile. The one in my work profile I use exclusively for sites I have to log in to and I want to stay logged in to, the one in the main profile for all other surfing so I regularly clear history, cookies,... there. KeePassDX integration works well now. It didn't do so in the past, however.
Arnauld Why Incognito always on if I am the only person using my phone?
Because every page and site you visit leaves "footprints in the sand" (cookies), and the next site you visit can see all previous footprints.
Incognito mode causes the footprints to be erased the moment you close all incognito windows.
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Slightly off topic - but may I ask briefly what the KeePassDX integration for Vanadium looks like? I haven't found anything helpful on this - a link would be enough for me.
I haven't used Chrome-like browser since the time it started eating all your memory in your computer :)
Vanadium is based on Chromium, correct? It features great security but how about upcoming changes to block ad-blocking from Google. Would anyone be informed as to say if this change will affect Vanadium too?
I was used to Firefox and Privacy Browser before
I came to GOS and gave Vanadium a try, mostly because of the hardening. Even though I missed some Add Ons in the beginning I started to love Vanadium because Vanadium is fast and everything works well. Today I only miss the fast access to bookmarks from Privacy Browser (just a small swipe from the right side). And ad blocking is done through DNS.
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jackFang I would say you worry too much, devs are surely aware of the upcoming and I suppose you'll see it when you get there if you stick around. +1 for Vanadium only and ProtonVPN, I hardly see any, not that I care. Another reason to keep Play Services as far away from you as possible.
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Murcielago
KeepassDX has a keyboard. When you are on a password page:
- you switch to that keyboard
- then you have to click on a big key button
- then it takes you to keepass app where you have to enter master password.
- then you select that account you want inside keypass
- then the app switches back to your browser with keepass keyboard and account selected.
- then you need to press the username button and the keybord fills the username field
- then you press the pasword button and the password field gets filled.
I don't like it. Too many clicks. I just copy pass word and then paste into page. Search youtube for some videos.
Not the best browser regarding features but the best browser regarding security, like GrapheneOS.
Fwiw, I'm using Vivaldi, as buttoned up as I can make it. It is a browser that works as I expect a browser to work. I'm sure Vanadium has many fine qualities, but I hate using the damned thing, and pretty much every other Android browser. Vivaldi is the only one I could readily bend to my will.
I only use Vanadium, because I have found no reason to use another browser. I'm no expert neither in security nor in privacy or anything else, and Vanadium just meets my needs ! If I meet some (small) inconvenience (password integration with Bitwarden is not perfect), I make do with that.
missing-root I use many custom search engines to not center my data usage around one major crawler, but decide what I actually want to search. This gives drastically better results and minimizes data collection. But even though that should at least in some extent work on Chromium Android, nothing showed up until now
I use my own custom front-end search engine and it runs fine with Vanadium.
I am surprised that so much people using Brave after so many weird/shady behaviours during the past years, I won't trust those guys ever
Thats nice. I wonder if collaboration with Chromite could work, as they already have such an Adblocker. May have too high level access though.
I dont get the Extension-phobia. They are not unprivate by design, as Settings can be changed per-user too. A configurable Browser is "unprivate by Design" then.
Its simply problematic needing to reinvent the wheel for so many things.
- Content block, custom filter creation
- Javascript granular block
- local darkmode
- local translation engine...
Those already exist and work. They are all from trustworthy origins and for example reviewing the code before allowing an Update could be a thing.
If this is not done, the workload increases a lot and the result may have worse UX and feature completeness, with a hypothetical security benefit.
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gonzalo agree Brave is very weird. I also heard they are sometimes behind on Security Fixes and include 32bit code. But absolutely no sources on that, would be highly interested.
Have a look at my FR here in their very inactive Forum. They use their own version of Chromium, while being a pure Webview Wrapper would increase security a lot on GrapheneOS afaik.
Brave is very bloated with things you dont need. I guess one shouldnt use a Crypto Wallet in the Browser for security reasons. Their BAT system seems to suck, I would like a way to pay websites I use a small amount, not watch Ads. They may have more bloat here and there, like the "privacy conscious translations" which are not local like on Firefox, their "privacy conscious LLM chatbot", their horrendous new tab page bloat etc.
They are focused on very weird things, but have a headstart on many others like
- accountless sync
- adblock builtin
- brave shields
On Desktop there is no Vanadium, just Ungoogled Chromium which Google blocked from Addons and Sync on purpose. Its not a usable Browser imho. Brave is, after disabling many things.
Even Michael Bazzel, who swore by Firefox Focus for many years and advised against using any browser based on Chromium, now recommends using Vanadium.
I did, but it has no adblocking functionality. I mainly use my phone's browser to watch youtube on the toilet and do some research on the go, so not being able to block youtube ads is a deal breaker, especially because I cannot use my pihole as the only dns as android always also adds a dnsv6 address.
Murcielago Seems that the smooth integration of KeePassDX is also due to FlorisBoard. When I access a site to log in, FlorisBoard promts me with a green field to tap saying "Log in with KeepassDX". When I tap it, KPDX opens and I have to unlock it with my fingerprint. Then it autofills the login ingredients.