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Their Android version literally comes with trackers built-in (Leanplum, Adjust, Google Analtics) which are non removable, about:config is gone on mobile as well.

As for the browser itself it’s privacy level is horrible though fixable, some particular atrocious things are their rampant telemetry and the Firefox Experiments / Normandy backdoor which allows them to run arbitrary code behind your back, circumventing the standard update functionality. Mozilla biggest source of income is literally Google (they just renewed that contract until 2023). Suffice to say that I do not trust a for profit company (Mozilla Corp.) hiding behind a non-profit foundation (Mozilla Foundation). Spying would happen at the backend and all of the backend code can in fact be reviewed.Īnd as for “trusting Mozilla”, I have my own thoughts about that. Only their frontend / UI code is closed source, this way they protect their own intellectual property which they don’t want to see stolen. Its entire source code except for the code of their proprietary UI can be reviewed. – Vivaldi is not open source, but source available. So yes, while they have business partners indeed, they are not an “ad network” in the spying kind of way. This all happens on one’s PC, no data is being sent to Brave Software or any third party in the process. Then, a local algorithm is analyzing your browsing and picks appropriate ads from the list. Instead, what Brave does is downloading a list of “ads” (The quotation marks here express that we are not talking about tracking scripts here, Brave’s ads are just system notifications in nature) on a regular basis. – Brave Software doesn’t run an advertising network in the sense that they are collecting your browsing history and then analyze it on their remote server. However, your remarks about Brave and Vivaldi need some clarification:

You need to allow the installation from other sources in the settings of your Android phone and then download and install the APK file, if you want so I think you are spot on about Chrome, because this one was designed to spy on you.

There is a benevolent variant of FF for Android called Iceweasel, which aims to fight such nonsense (basically what Waterfox is on the desktop, just on mobile in this case): That being said, they literally baked in trackers that are non-removable(!), make of that what you will. It’s enabled by default and can be turned off in the settings of FF on Android.

Now, as for the trackers in FF Android, here you go: But Firefox is getting ruined more and more, and this is not my fault, I am clearly the wrong tree to bark on here. Now, in case of Firefox, when they reduce user control by gutting about:config access and most extensions on Android, how am I supposed to sugarcoat this? What is the good aspect of this? I don’t know what some people expect from me, if there were good news, I would talk about that rather than having to criticize things all day (normally I am not that negative about things). I am just plainly stating things how I see them, and if I view certain developments as negative, I’ll point this out. Here is my own Brave setup, by the way:Īnd as for people who attack me for whatever reason it’s not like I am hating on anyone. Feel free to ask me further questions if necessary. – Sending tabs is possible, just follow these instructions that also apply to Brave: – There is no included reader mode in Brave, however, this is easy to fix via extension: …that being said, you can type in letters or other symbols before you search, which will also switch the search engine on the fly, you can define such shortcuts under this address: Vivaldi is the only Chromium-based browser which can do it similarly to Firefox… – It’s true that swiching search engines isn’t straightforward in Brave. You are mentioning weaknesses of Brave, a few remarks on my part: Order to use Nano Defender successfully, make sure to also subscribe to the Nano Defender list in uBlock Origin or Nano Adblocker.

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