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Is Cromite on Android a viable alternative to Firefox based browsers? Any Experience?

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Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser! - uazo/cromite

Since it looks like Firefox might not be a good option for the long haul due to some disappointing decisions from its management, I'm on the lookout for privacy-friendly alternatives. I came across Cromite, which is based on Chromium and has an ad blocker. Has anyone tried it? From what I've seen, the built-in ad blocker seems pretty basic and not very customizable. Still, I think any alternative we choose should be based on Chromium, especially if we don’t want to wait ages for Ladybird.

Android Apps @lemmy.world Bromite is dead, long live Cromite.

Android @lemmy.world Bromite is dead, long live Cromite.

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That logic makes absolutely no sense. Look into Google before you take issue with Mozilla.

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- i get where you are coming from but right now i am more mad at mozilla xD
  
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  Keep your eye on the prize. Google and Mozilla aren’t even in the same area code of shit. Firefox is the obvious answer.
  
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  Why?
  
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I use it every day and I never had problems with it. It's pretty OK.but I would like to have something more powerful like Unblock Origin which is available on Firefox for android but the performance is not that good and I didn't like how it worked

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- Have u tried mull? Ive had no problems with it so far.
  
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  It has site isolation problem and it's slow 😮‍💨 . it used to be my favourite
  
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  Same here.
  
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I use cromite, and it's good, but the adblocker is unable to handle the more aggressive popups and ads, whereas firefox + uBO does fine.

Thus, cromite is my main browser and I use firefox for... other stuff. This setup is mainly because I'm too lazy to install Mull or another firefox based browser to be my main option.

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No

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Mull and Fennec are way more obvious android browsers to switch to if Firefox doesnt meet your privacy needs/concerns.

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- for now yes, but what I'm arguing is that they might not be in the long run
  
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Bromite used to be the only non-built-in browser recommended by GrapheneOS, and I've not seen anything bad posted since it became Cromite. Apparently Firefox on Android still doesn't have site isolation so it's still a toss-up between security and the ominous shadow of Google.

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- It didnt become Cromite. Bromite was abandoned and a ~~single person or a couple~~ regular maintainer forked it and created Cromite, embedding code from AdBlockPlus etc.
  
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  The guy who forked it (uazo)was a regular maintainer of bromite
  
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  Yeah I know, I think a project dying and continuing as a fork still counts though
  
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  Fortunately I think they both have content blocking available. Also I set my private DNS to block ads in every app.
  
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Well, let's see what happens first. If we'll be able to disable all the junk, it'll be okay.

I still wanna support diversity among browser engines.

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- i think it's better to jump ship now so that they get scared and stop the enshitification early before it s too late
  
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  Yeah, I don't think that's possible. 😅
  
  People have been jumping ship for a decade, and it hasn't helped. They'll probably have to sink first, and by then it might be too late if someone else has filled the void.
  
  I, for one, won't be coming back if it comes to that.
  
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I used both Cromite and Brave. Ended up using Brave (disabling all the crypto things) since it offers better handling in ad blocks and anti fingerprint.

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- Brave is shady crypto infested spyware.
  
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  If you are referring to the crypto side of things you can easily disable them. I don't see any spyware TBH.
  
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  It's turned off by default
  
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~~I heard that Cromite is shady, and recommendations pro Brave instead.~~

I cant find the sources, this topic is really complicated, brave is shady too.

Which is crazy as Brave is so much more bloated.

Mulch is a based browser for regular Android, close behind Vanadium in features and release cadence, but without patches that break regular Android and only work on GrapheneOS.

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- What have you heard about Cromite which makes it more shady than Brave!?
  
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  This is what they mean I think
  
  https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/111966180001152300
  
  https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/10550-mull-hardened-firefox-security/61
  
  Pic for those who are lazy to click link
  
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  Honestly somewhere in GrapheneOS forums but I was not alble to find it.
  
  Just that they embed code for their adblocking engine that is by ABP. Which may be fair, may be not.
  
  GrapheneOS people recommend Brave, but no idea why, apart from the privacy advantages over Vanadium.
  
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I use Iceraven with UBO on my android devices.

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I recently shifted from Firefox based Browsers. I'm currently testing cromite. One issue is it's ad blocker is not that perfect. It has easy list as it's main blacklist. I think it would be really nice if they add ublock origin , ad guard or other blocklist. Though I added next dns as secure dns in the Browser . it has all the blocklist i need

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- So i just found that you can add custom filters . i added stevenblack You guys can also try it https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
  
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  FYI this increases your fingerprintability
  
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You can add any filter list you want to it. You can also use GreaseMonkey user scripts.

I still prefer Mull, but I keep Cromite installed

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Lolno.

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