sugseg52 Brave is a Chromium fork, so it already benefits from the security features that Chromium provides by default.

On top of that, they add some rudimentary fingeprinting protections (as best as you're going to get unless you're using Tor Browser), and they also feature adblocking without the need of an extension among other things. If you don't want to use Vanadium, it's the only other browser I can really recommend for day-to-day browsing.

https://www.privacyguides.org/mobile-browsers/ is a resource that may help you.

      Kind reminder to everyone that it's best to stick to technical discussions and not political ones, as this is not the place for that. Choosing not to use a piece of software for non-technical reasons is absolutely fine and everybody's right, but I don't want this thread (or any thread here) to turn into anything that's not a discussion based on technical merit.

        Following on from my colleague matchboxbananasynergy I have cleaned up the thread of said non technical posts.

        Unfortunately while the conversation remained civil, we look to reference threads across social platforms and point people to the forum as an asset.

        Thankyou for your understanding and continued good natured discourse.

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            MetropleX Following on from my colleague matchboxbananasynergy I have cleaned up the thread of said non technical posts.

            It's meaningful approach. Thank you for that. ;)

              matchboxbananasynergy Brave is a Chromium fork, so it already benefits from the security features that Chromium provides by default.

              On top of that, they add some rudimentary fingeprinting protections (as best as you're going to get unless you're using Tor Browser)

              Does that mean that brave is a better option as vanadium for fingerprinting protection?
              In which situations is vanadium a better option than brave?

                  bartenderstoneware test it out for yourself. Go to coveryourtracks.eff.org with both Brave and Vanadium (or even Tor Browser) and take your own conclusions...

                    The website PrivacyTests.org is helpful and provides data-driven results regarding the ability to block and mitigate fingerprinting for major Internet browsers. Vanadium, though, is not included in the tests.

                    The maintainer of the project is a current Brave employee, as per his About page in his website. I, personally, don't think this affects the results, but I think it's fair to mention it.

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                      bartenderstoneware Kind of. I don't think you can realistically do it on Brave Android, but you can kind of do it on the desktop version, by launching the browser with a specific flag. More info here:

                      https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19872

                      The issue with this approach is that it disables JIT across the board, and there's no per-site toggle to enable/disable it as you please. You'll eventually run into breakage and won't have an option other than to enable it again.

                      Microsoft Edge also has this, but I'm not sure if it's available on the Android version.

                          lordiont The maintainer of the project is a current Brave employee, as per his About page in his website. I, personally, don't think this affects the results, but I think it's fair to mention it.

                          Being transparent about relationships is essential to maintaining trust in the privacy arena.