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Good if you need to use Chrome stuff
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Has the original developer of Bromite ever reappeared to let us know he’s alright!
I didn’t realize they vanished
Reason for the fork
I just thought he dipped I don’t always check what’s up with the community of the software I’m using is about unless I am deploying it. (Didn’t even realize Mull’s dev Divested Computing Group (which was more like Divested Computing One Really Industrious Fellow it turns out) shut down for like a month so I am trying to set up more notifications.) My mobile browser is barely even a part of my workflow. I appreciate you telling me because a lot of creepy things happen to privacy researchers!!! And then people just forget!!!
He was ukrainian I believe, so it may just have been war related. Forgot password and had a password manager or sum. I don’t think he was violated as an individual. DivestOS: Yeah, it’s just been him. And he has been doing a phenomenal job, exceeding many groups. But he said that after 10 years of the same thing he wanted to do something else.
Oh that boy is in smithereens, goodness gracious. They’ve been putting pilots and shit in the infantry. Military pilots. Random coder? Fuck
That would be a shame. I think he might’ve been smart enough to flee though, since the war wasn’t even that known to me at the time. So it’s been a while back.
Smart enough to flee doesn’t necessarily make you lucky enough to make it out
I routinely use Cromite and IronFox (closest to LibreWolf for android). Have Brave for logging into accounts with some adjustment and For browser for checking flights or discounts etc.
I’m not really clear on how Brave fares versus regular Chromium or something, but that’s pretty much how I use Android. Technically my default browser is Linksheet, which rules
I’m with you and not perfectly sure that Brave is the best, but I reserve it for my logged in accounts only. IronFox and Cromite both set to private with no history or logs, and used for single use opening of links from Lemmy etc. Trying to isolate / separate third party cookies and tracking as I can. I also use Rethink DNS as firewall and with three filters for whole android device.
Nothing as sleazy as Brave should be on our devices tbqh there has to be something with a similar balance of website breaking & adblocking + degoogling
Yeah Rethink is dope I see we have both pulled all of the good Fdroid apps :^]
It’s easier to use and has built-in ad blocking, nothing more.
This has been my go-to on GrapheneOS. Glad to see it get some notice.
Apparently the Graphene devs look down on them according tl other replies. 🤔 Maybe I will check out Vanadium. Cromjte can’t be as bad as Brave tho lol
What make you prefer it to vanadium?
The ability to use a custom search engine (searXNG) and the accessibility/UI features.
I wish it was on flatpak/flathub, favourite chromium browser if I need to use chromium for any reason.
While I agree it would be nice, Flatpak weakens the Chromium sandbox by stopping proper per site isolation. Chromium in Flatpak relies on the zypak server in place of proper strict isolation.
i never knew that, i always thought chromium under flatpak was using Chromiums sandbox.
then its better to install any Chromium/electron apps outside of sandbox/flatpak which is hard on majority of distros.
Just use ungoogled. It’s decent enough.
Doesnt come with proper fingerprinting protections or flag hardening. I am not saying ungoogled Chromium is bad, just not a proper replacement for hardened chromium browsers like Cromite or Brave. Ungoogled Chromium is a drop in replacement for Chrome, so it does nearly everything possible to stick with defaults (sans any google connections)
I thought it stopped development a couple years ago on android.
True, but it feels more barbones ngl.
On arch based Chromite isn’t a problem, but on Debian or other distros yeah it is a problem.
why is it bare bones and it doesnt have the features found in chromite:
Ungoogled chromium focuses more on vanilla chromium without Google components
no built in adblock (useful after google killed manifest v3)
No fingerprint blocking
no privacy features
Great for my tablet which is too weak to run IronFox smoothly. One annoyance is that it’ll insist on a refresh if your internet connection is interrupted or changes in any way. The reason for it is not immediately obvious and neither is the option to turn it off (Settings > Homepage > Ask to restart on connection change)
