My setup on GrapheneOS with all the exploit protections on except some off for apps with compatibility issues. Thoughts?

  • Igilq
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    3 hours ago

    Yes, ironfox is good too (i forgot to mention it) but on grapheneos you will want to end up using their browser

    Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox’s sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn’t happening for their Android browser yet.

    Also, having exodus integration in app downloader is good but not worth it for exchange of no signature verification, so it’s better to just check it in browser instead or use their app to check trackers

    • Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one
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      18 minutes ago

      Cool, especially more so on PWA.
      But I’d still recommend having ironfox for general browsing & not throwing privacy to the window.

      (You won’t believe it but, I just wrote a blog-size reply and accidently deleted it for trying to put it on a pastebin service…)