Honestly the lack of ad blockers in Vanadium pushes me towards Firefox even though the devs say that Firefox is far less secure. So many web sites are just hard to use on mobile without an ad blocker so I’m curious what the rest of you are doing.

  • eggnog@sopuli.xyz
    24·
    1 year ago

    I have the same reasons for using mull (Firefox fork). I love having an adblocker along side my VPN’s ad block. I also hate the chromium UI/UX, mostly because the search bar is on the top of the screen.

      • WardPearce@lemmy.nzEnglish
        47·
        1 year ago

        The amount of Firefox fanboys who will get mad at you for mentioning Android Firefox missing per-site process isolation. I’ve basically made the choice to not mention it anymore because I always get harassed whenever I do lol…

        Firefox on desktop is awesome, Mobile should be avoided.

        • null@slrpnk.net
          51·
          1 year ago

          I’m willing to bet you get “harassed” for your smug attitude, not for mentioning that fact.

          • WardPearce@lemmy.nzEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            not sure how I’m being smug (please point to my excessive pride in my achievements) but okay, “harassed” is deffo a overstatement but I’m just sick of people like this https://lemmy.nz/comment/1506835 while I’m trying to help people.

            But aside that, people shouldn’t be a asshole to someone just because they come off smug 🤷

              • WardPearce@lemmy.nzEnglish
                12·
                1 year ago

                How did I disregard it? He literally provided a reference what countered his own point.

                Like please, if you actually have a point to make. I’d love to know how he corrected me at all.

                I think trashing is a overstatement, I’m providing references to my point (Also I LOVE firefox and use it on my desktop what i mentioned! It lacks basic security features on Android, that is not trashing on Firefox!) and I was deffo a bit hostile because he was obviously responding in bad faith.

            • null@slrpnk.net
              11·
              1 year ago

              With that link I just see your comment and no replies (maybe my instance doesn’t federate with theirs).

              But look at just this thread: your other comment is you telling someone what they use is bad and providing no reasoning as to why.

              Then when you get downvoted for contributing nothing of value, you whine about it and begrudgingly post the reasoning you should have shared from the beginning.

              That’s a shitty attitude that’s going to net you downvotes and negative replies, and you shouldn’t be surprised by it.

              • WardPearce@lemmy.nzEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                yes you must not be federated.

                My other comment what you must be referring to is “most insecure android stack”, doesn’t have references I agree & it probably should (thats why i edited it to include them) but its also on people to do their own research and if someone is commenting that their stack is insecure, maybe that person could ask me why or do a little research themselves (instead of just downvoting. Or they could just downvote & ask a question too!).

                Also I’m not saying down votes is “harassment” thats insane, people can down votes as much as they want. I’m just over people unwilling to see insecurities after I provide references (like in the comment you can’t see responses to)

                Shocker not every comment I make will be prefect & if people genuinely wanted to learn ask questions!

                Also this whole idea that its a “negative attitude” is insane, I’m literally telling someone the software they use is insecure.

        • zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          fission is functional with no noticeable issues on Firefox mobile as of like ~ff115/116. it just has to be manually enabled in about:config.

  • Decentralizr@lemmy.world
    101·
    1 year ago

    You could use DNS and stick with Vanadium. AdGuard, nextdns, decloudus, Mullvad… all good for ad blocking and probably more effective as it’s system wide

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 year ago

      DNS blocking is different than content blocking. A content blocker like ublock can block more than just domains by injecting scripts into DOM (iirc im not a webdev)

  • mlfh@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    Bromite before it died, RIP :( Vanadium now with regular dns adblocking where security matters, Fennec where it doesn’t.

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Mull with ublock origin, always on VPN to my house with pihole for DNS.

    I use Firefox for the “installed” web pages for quick access to internal things like Sonarr since Mull would log me out fairly often.

  • Quereller@lemmy.one
    8·
    1 year ago

    Mull with Adblock plus, Ghostery and Decentral eyes. Btw. I hope they soon update their icon to be Material theme compatible.

    • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Honest question: is using those 3 addons better than sticking to just uBlock Origin?

      I have read multiple times that the best is to just uBlock Origin and nothing else, since other addons are redundant and together will make your fingerprint easier to recognize.

      • Quereller@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 year ago

        Honest answer, I don’t know. I will for sure not install another extension. What I like from Ghostery is the “auto decline cookie banner” funktion.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        I disagreed particularly with:

        Furthermore, F-Droid doesn’t enforce a minimum target SDK

        While yes, this may be a bad thing for some, certain apps, like termux (terminal emulator, even lets you make a linux chroot, some ppl play games using wine in it) only work properly on sdk’s older than a certain version, since newer versions can be somewhat locked down.

        I don’t want to say that that article is “google good, f droid bad”, but that’s what a lot of what it’s points are. It completely neglects to mention the downsides of google’s various security models, especially for a foss community like this one. App bundles, for instance, are secure yes. But they are also an advanced form of drm (at least when made by google), must be compiled server side for each device, and other things that make them not work for the foss community.

        And criticizing f Droid because it has multiple repos? That criticism is completely incompatible with the common FLOSS ideas that things should be less centralized.

        Don’t get me wrong, some of the points it brings up are valid, but they are biased, only focusing on on one side.

        And I also don’t feel the need to be alarmed by these points. What does it matter that google signs everything (in a supposedly better way) when “everything” includes malware?

        As usual, no app or product can replace human discernment. Security is a process, not a product.

  • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    Firefox nightly for bleeding edge updates and also hardened it a bit through the about:config menu, regular Firefox when I need proper security for banking and whatnot, and Vanadium in case something does not work underneath Firefox which is very very rare.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      I dont think regular (also not really privacy friendly) Firefox is more secure than hardened Firefox nightly.

      Btw Mull from FDroid is a prehardened version of nightly.