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No firefox with ublock origin? Seems like that would be the obvious choice here (or maybe not due to Mozilla's recent antics)
the GrapheneOS developers would like you to know that switching to Ironfox, the only Android Firefox fork (to my knowledge) that implements process sandboxing (and also ships ublock origin for convenience) (also also, the Firefox situation on Android looks so much like intentional Mozilla sabotage, cause they have a perfectly good sandbox sitting there disabled) is utterly unsafe because it doesn’t work with a lesser Android sandbox named
isolatedProcess
or have the V8 sandbox (because it isn’t V8) and its usage will result in your immediate deathso anyway I’m currently switching from vanadium to ironfox and it’s a lot better so far
This all-or-nothing approach, where compromises are never allowed, is my biggest annoyance with some privacy/security advocates, and also it unfortunately influences many software design choices. Since this is a nice thread for ranting, here's a few examples:
This has gotten pretty long already, I will stop now. To be clear, this is not a rant against security... I treat security of my devices seriously. But I'm annoyed that I am forced to have protections in place against threat models that are irrelevant, or at least sufficiently negligible, for my personal use cases. (IMO one root cause is that too much software these days is written for the needs of enterprise IT environments, because that's where the real money is, but that's a different rant altogether.)
hey those are my gripes with much of modern computing, give them back! I’m gonna tell mom
so much more software needs a “I know what I’m doing, shut the fuck up” button