turmoil2750 Better content blocking than ublock origin?
Chromite vs Vanadium for the average person?
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On desktop ublock is better.
On android i feel like brave as a complete package (regarding browser+content blocker)is more optimized. Mozilla doesn't have the resources to optimize firefox so much. It's slowly cathing up but they fired their android engineers to increase the salary of their SJW CEO lol
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To address the original question, I can't see an argument for Chromite (when compared against Vanadium).
If Graphene has earned your trust and Vanadium is a part of the package, concieved by and maintened by GOS team with DM's insights, then I can't see how one could not see it as the best option bar none.
Especially since it includes other, not insignificant, minutiae, such as self-updated, always current, trusted code (none of these 'should I get it from FD or GH or PS or Aurora', no having to consider updating mechanisms, signature trustworthiness, tracking, etc.).
Needless to add, Vanadium is my primary browser.
Other than Vanadium and Brave, the only other browser I'd recommend is Mulch. It has many or the Vanadium's patches and gets timely updates.
You may want to use both Vanadium and Mulch, actually, one for logged accounts and PWAs, and the other one for general browsing.
I have been a big fan on Android of Brave primarily b/c it is so fast. Yeah, their crypto ad revenue and other mentioned things concerned me compared to non-revenue based interfaces like GOS and I think Vanadium. Since moving to GOS I have been fine with Vanadium. Good speed. Gets the job done. Do wonder about DDG as default search engine. Has that been discussed?
Its a great question and one I have as well. I prefer using cromite because I like to always be in incognito mode without my browsing history saved. Vanadium requires me to clear this manually while cromite doesnt save it if used this way.
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panopticon
I'm nearly always in an incognito mode in Vanadium.
An elegant solution that makes it easier to achieve it, is to use a widget. One of four widgets offered has a direct incognito button. With a single click, you get a tab that saves no history.
That, and the fact "add to a home screen' items likewise are configured to open via an incognito tab, is why I can't remember last time I had to access Vanadium via its app button. (Nor do i remember when I had to empty its history.)
turmoil2750 Lmaooo
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[deleted] Nova Launcher users can add a 1x1 custom shortcut to Vanadium in incognito mode to the home screen. Don't think this is possible in the stock launcher though I haven't tried.
Edit: This can be done in the stock launcher as well. Long-press the vanadium app, long press the "launch incognito tab" in the pop-up and drag it to the home screen. Now you have a 1x1 shortcut to Vanadium in incognito mode.
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Brave has been pinging gstatic, Amazon, eBay, ESPN and a bunch more concerning connections upon opening the app. You can check this your self with a custom DNS like Next DNS and observing the logs. Even if you turn off and delete top sites in brave, it will continue to occasionally make connections to these service when you first open the app. I am using Cromite and Vanadium. I am hoping Vanadium will add some additional anti fingerprinting measures soon. I would like to drop Cromite, but Cromite works better in some ways.
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Both.
Vanadium for important things whose logins I don't want leaked and who not spew filth at me like ads.
Cromite for opening random sites that are not terribly important because it has an ok-ish adblocker.
Use a thing that catches intents to open links as default browser, so you always see the URL and can choose which browser opens it.
I don't trust Brave. From analyzing their incentives I do not believe they will be longterm invested in user choice or not fucking trust up.
Fingerprinting is a lost cause. Any of the big browsers in comfy config will be fingerprintable. If you really mean it use Torbrowser in most restrictive mode.
Here is a screenshot of the logs.
https://wormhole.app/LAkp9#TWLG8TZb9AiB81DAS4euQQ
I have no bookmarks. Have top sites removed and these logs still show. It's an issue that my IP address is being sent to websites such as Instagram for just opening the brave browser with all history and cookies cleared. I would like to drop cromite for brave and would like to drop brave for only Vanadium but each have their issues.
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Overheat1859 Interesting...
I am using Next DNS through the browser settings. I have noticed when using Next DNS through network system settings less logs are shown I'm not sure why.
Grantelbart Vanadium has content filtering too, now, in case you didn't know. It works fairly well in my testing.
Can you please advise how to access it? Can't find in the settings. Thanks!
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Overheat1859 Brave has been pinging gstatic, Amazon, eBay, ESPN and a bunch more concerning connections upon opening the app. You can check this your self with a custom DNS like Next DNS and observing the logs.
brave on android is just buggy in that sense. Most of the pings are prefetch of the "top sites" on the homepage.
It preloads some "top sites" out of the box (instagram, espn, and others...).
Now here's the bug: If you "disable", the homepage from the options, starting brave from a blank page for example, what happens is that the links on the (not)disabled homepage are still being prefetched.
To stop the pings at startup you need to:
- re-enable all the homepage options until your browser will boot on the infamous homepage full of "top sites".
- remove, site-per-site all the top sites. Long click on them and remove.
- pings disappeared (most of them; you will still note safe-browsing google and autupdate-components pings for example).
This type of bugs are syntomous of how much they care about privacy, but at least they are not proposely harmful and, with a bit of configs, brave can be set as a pretty decent browser.
Also, my unpopular personal raccomendation is to reconsider firefox-based browser.
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ponymontana Thanks for the info, I already have top sites removed but enabling the setting it seems like it works for now but I still ping gstatic. Do you need to keep the bottom toolbar enabled to prevent the bug from occurring or could I turn it off afterwards? I would hope Firefox could one day get at the same security level as chromium for android.
Overheat1859 Never mind. even after following the steps. The connections to Instagram, eBay, ESPN Amazon are still made.