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submitted 10 months ago by Discola@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 35 points 10 months ago
[-] eggnog@sopuli.xyz 24 points 10 months 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.

[-] featured@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

I like Mull the best. It’s pretty much just Firefox+arkenfox for mobile

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 6 points 10 months ago

Except for gecko mobile not having per-site process issolation (Fission) I get it though, its has good anti fingerprinting, isnt chromium, and has compatibility with Firefox addons (you can get around the mobile only requirement by importing a custom collection, which iirc requires Dev mode)

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[-] loadsas@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago
[-] mlfh@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 20 points 10 months ago

There is a fork of Bromite, called Cromite, if you're interested.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

This one looks cool, but I am so used to having a sync service that I can't enjoy it fully :/

[-] Decentralizr@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months 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 points 10 months 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)

[-] robotdna@toast.ooo 1 points 10 months ago

This is what I ended up opting for and it works very well

[-] Quereller@lemmy.one 8 points 10 months 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 points 10 months 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 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

uBlock Origin also has this functionality in its "annoyances" list category

[-] Quereller@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago

I just tried it and it did not work for a website I often visit.

[-] radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months 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.

[-] mattyeen@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago

Mull with ubo

[-] Carter@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago

I flip between Mull and Cromite.

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago
[-] DARbarian@artemis.camp 4 points 10 months ago

Prettt sure it's the updated Bromite fork

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, it's the fork of Bromite that uazo is maintaining.

https://github.com/uazo/cromite

[-] IuseArchbtw@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Fennec, Firefox from the f-droid-store

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[-] Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

really want to like vanadium, but it's giving me a unique fingerprint... So I am currently using Brave

[-] elperronegro@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Mull, Fennec on mobile and Librewolf on laptop

[-] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

You could just keep vanadium and change the DNS of your phone for mullvad DNS for exemple to block the ads in (nearly ) every app.

[-] Bimbus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Been using duck duck go or Firefox focus personally

[-] dukethorion@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago

Stop using the DDG Browser.

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Hardened Firefox-based browser like Mull or Klar.

[-] trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I use Vanadium and sometimes DDG or Tor. Mulls a good, hardcore browser as well.

And for vanadium, I use an ad blocking DNS, which is https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query

Isn't perfect but it blocks some ads

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago
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[-] markkdark@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Iceraven from GitHub, it's fork of Firefox but more privacy + add-ons Ghostery & uBlock origin & Bitearden. I don't need more than one browser.

[-] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 3 points 10 months ago

Vanadium and Adguard home

[-] jacktherippah@lemdro.id 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vanadium for when I need to log in and Cromite for daily browsing.

[-] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Mostly Mull. A little Firefox and a little Vanadium

[-] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Use to use forefox, switched to just Vanadium as per Graphenes guidelines

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

i was using Mull for a while but currently trying Fennec. both are firefox forks on fdroid

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use Firefox for most trusted browsing, largely due to its bookmark sync and extension support. It has also been my desktop browser of choice for decades. I always browse in private mode on mobile, and with strict protection enabled (no 3PC), so essentially no cookie or data retention once the app is closed. FF sync for bookmarks only, no search suggestions, autocomplete, etc., except for search bookmarks. DDG as default engine.

Passwords are managed with KeePass autofill, and synced to many other devices via Syncthing.

I love that Vanadium is the default WebView browser though, due to its support for site isolation and other hardened features.

Fingerprinting is still virtually impossible to prevent until/unless the overall web browser model changes.

[-] sibloure@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I use Vanadium with a custom DNS in system settings - NextDNS. It doesn't get rid of every ad but it's pretty good and blocks nearly all of them. You can choose adblock filter lists as well with NextDNS.

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

NextDNS with Vanadium.

To me, being able to use Vanadium in webview is a huge benefit.

Using DNS to block ads is relatively simple these days.

[-] Shaul@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Navi download manager that has a built-in web browser combined with AdAway.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fennec, basically Firefox forked. uBlock Origin + ClearURLs. In uBlock Origins I have every single filter enabled except the language ones. Also dark Reader is nice and synced with my system theme, something that doesn't work in Mull because fingerprint resistance blocks that by design.

I can't do Mull for day-to-day stuff, too many things break for me. Web apps like my work stuff, financial stuff, medical stuff, all those heavily use JavaScript and aren't the best coded so they don't like Mull very well. Fennec with uBlock Origin "just works" and very rarely do I ever have to turn off uBlock, usually disabling cosmetic filter on it fixes all my problems.

Also if you run a Firefox variant, you can enable NoScript and enable "Temporarily set top-level sites to trusted" and it will enable a lot of js websites to work without tweaks while still offering very powerful protection.

If I website doesn't work, opening it I'm Vanadium is a nice way to check if the issue is Firefox or not.

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