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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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android browser reccs? (artemis.camp)

submitted 1 year ago by strawberry@artemis.camp to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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using mull rn, wondering if y'all recconend something different. nothing really wrong with mull, but maybe there's a better alternative. privacyguides.org reccomends brave, but a. I font like the CEO and b. I'm hesitant to use chromium

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[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fennec F-Droid is based on the latest Firefox release (codenamed Fenix). It has proprietary bits and telemetry removed, but still connects to various Mozilla and Google services that can track users.

Edit: Quickly checked an article from Mike Kuketz (german): https://www.kuketz-blog.de/firefox-datensendeverhalten-android-app-f-droid-version-browser-check-teil6/

Fennec contacts mozilla servers to get new lists for the anti fingerprinting and anti tracking technologies. Also xml files with info about vulnarabilities etc. It sends not much.

Google is contacted when you have google as standard search provider and search suggestions active.

Otherwise no tracking etc

[–] strawberry@artemis.camp 6 points 1 year ago

cool. can't lie, the mull icom pushed me away a bit too, this one is super cute lol. ty