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After about 8 months, I love this Android browser. Not Chrome, FF, or Edge based. (codeberg.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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UPDATE: THIS USES GOOGLE WEB VIEW. DO NOT USE.

I can't figure out why nobody talks about this. I see all kinds of alternative browsers on here, but never this one. I especially like the color coded bookmarks for different categories (my news is gray, my searxng/swisscows and other search engines green, my tech solutions purple). It has anti-fingerprinting and a quick toggle for if you need to quickly adjust javascript or cookie setting to make a quick exception. There are lots of features. If anyone else has tried it, it would be interesting to hear your feedback too.

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It uses Android Web view which is essentially just Chrome without the interface, and is entirely proprietary. It suffers from all the drawbacks of Chrome based browsers with the added problem of being an Android component so out of much, if any, control of the developers.

This app should not be a serious consideration for anyone who is privacy or security focused. The very first thing a secure browser should be providing is it's own rendering engine. Even providing it's own chrome based rendering engine would be more secure than this.

Also in terms of extensions, as it is Chrome based it's extensions such as uBlock will have the same privacy breaking restrictions as the rest of the chrome ecosystem with manifest v3 which favours Google's advertising business over user security and privacy.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

Holy crap. This is disappointing. I should consider editing the post so people know.

[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's possible for a Chrome-based browser to have better ad-blocking than Google Chrome

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ is something I agree with, but Brave does have better ad-blocking features than Google Chrome, despite using the same core engine