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.

  • Rose@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

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

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    5 months ago

    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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    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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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

      for now yes, but what I’m arguing is that they might not be in the long run

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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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      5 months ago

      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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    5 months ago

    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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      5 months ago

      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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        5 months ago

        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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    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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    5 months ago

    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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    5 months ago

    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