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I finally moved off of Mull (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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It actually was pretty easy. All I did was install Fennec and then tweak a few settings.

  • I switched the browsing protection to strict

  • I installed ublock origin

  • I went to about:config and enabled resist fingerprinting

I ran some fingerprinting tests and my slightly modified Fennec performs about the same as Mull

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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    • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is there a reason to move off of mull? I'm not caught up

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    There is. As per the latest announcement from DivestOS:

    DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates.

    Sadly, that means that there is basically no privacy-respecting Firefox-based Android web browser as of now which works out-of-the-box.

    There is IronFox, a Mull fork, but it remains to be seen whether they are trustworthy and can keep up with the updates. In the meantime, a hardened Fennec is probably the best we can do.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    what's wrong with mull i didn't get the memo

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Dev is no longer maintaining along with DivestOS.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Can we please get an Arkenfox-like for mobile? I LOVE Librewolf and I just wish they would make a mobile version. Or if Mullvad Browser had a mobile version.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I haven't moved from Mull yet, but there's IronFox which is a Mull fork

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I spent the whole day figuring this out, i did the same as you with fennec and hardening. Took some inspiration from arkenfox and betterfox and thats about it.

    Edit: its sad, but such is life i guess. I loved mull.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Did the same thing as a non mull user installed a fennec fork tho (Iceraven)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!

    Yeah that is not confidence inspiring. I don't need it to be perfect but a web browser needs to focus on security instead of just winging it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Even that warning I never really faced issues with the browser(but still a concern).

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Where are you downloading Fennec?

    I see F-droid has a certain version available, is this the one you use?

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

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    F-droid

    I don't think the telemetry us that big of deal but I also have no idea how to turn it off.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    They're already off. The Fennec builds on F-Droid apparently don't even have the option to turn telemetry on -- it's not in the build.

    Go to about:telemetry in the URL bar and it should say that telemetry upload is disabled.

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    • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'd like to use a browser based on Gecko but they're far behind than Chromium based browsers in matter of security unfortunately

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In terms of number of CVEs Firefox is better. The real danger of mobile Firefox is that it doesn't implement sandboxing which means that a security vulnerability can be very bad. However, Android sandboxes apps already so the chances of long term impact are low.

    I would love to see Mozilla implement a proper security sandboxing in mobile Firefox. Instead we get AI and ads. I can't use Chromium since it no longer properly supports Mv2

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