Can’t believe people always use this crypto-spam browser.
Same, I was surprised brave is so popular.
Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary “features” on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)
Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.
So does Librewolf. What’s the benefit of brave? Chrome-based? Checked chromium from time to time and don’t think chrome is superior over Firefox.
Chromium is generally more secure than firefox.
Sources?
Wow I got downvoted a lot on that I thought it was a generally agreed upon fact. Source (graphene os)
I still use firefox btw because I prefer it for many other reasons but chromium is definetely more secure.
GraphaneOS founder has fetish for Chromium and he hates F-Droid 1
tldr: he accuse f-droid not being secure and citing this bs post https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ and he promotes accrescent.app
here is some examples:
Open source doesn’t necessarily mean more secure. I’m aware of many open source apps with numerous well-known security vulnerabilities, as well as many closed-source apps that are highly secure. Furthermore, Accrescent will have a filter to, for example, show only open source apps, so your treatment is incomprehensible.
Accrescent doesn’t claim to serve only open-source apps and never has out of the belief that an app’s source model doesn’t inherently make it more or less private or secure. Qlango doesn’t violate any explicit or implicit Accrescent policy by the properties you listed, so it would be inappropriate to remove it.
…In addition, “trackers” are subjective. Accrescent has no plans to enumerate specific libraries or classes and blacklist them solely based on the fact that they connect to Google, Amazon, etc.; collect analytics; or contain proprietary code. This approach isn’t scalable anyway because it is trivial to bypass such detection methods.
So I take everything GraphaneOS says with a grain of salt
daniel micay:
You’re well aware that the CalyxOS / F-Droid community has made multiple attempts at having me killed through severe swatting attacks
holy shit that’s batshit crazy. is there any proof this actually happened?
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One source from a sadly biased author. I am honestly too lazy to aggregate some numbers for CVEs to find out what’s the truth but I am sure that it is not an inherent quality of chromium to be more secure.
but I am sure that it is not an inherent quality of chromium to be more secure.
Oh, come on, this is a well-know fact and it has been that way for years, although it’s slowly changing. It took years for Firefox site isolation to come to Android, and even on desktops, the actual sandbox improvements to try to make it on par with Chromium came last month… It’s really disingenuous to write off the entire post, claiming the author is biased while not even trying to fight the arguments he made on that website.
Do you need an account to use Proton VPN?
If you download it from the FDroid store, yes. If you download it from the Google Play Store, no.
(I just tested this to make sure, because I know it sounds weird.)
ok so if you do it through google play it uses your google account I assume with like something like saml.
No, it gives you the option to use a Proton account or use it without an account, it doesn’t connect to google account
Yes but it is free (email address) with an acces to 5 countries (Netherlands, Romania, Japan and 2 others i never used). To extend it worldwide you have to subscribe to a premium account.
It`s 10 countries. USA, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Romana, Japan, Norway, and Singapore, though it connects randomly and you can’t choose the IP
You know I just remembered that no one actually confirmed whether DuckDuckGo wasn’t just a honeypot for the NSA because it didn’t become big until after thr Snowden leaks lol.
well I still don’t get how are they legitimately funding their services, even before they started running their free AI chat proxy.
Matrix is the protocol. Element is the client and just one of many.
Why is Thunderbird listed with proton mail, tuta and fastmail?
They are a provider as well as a client now.
I’m considering swapping from Proton Mail to Fastmail. The fact that it allows 3-year subscriptions is good (I’d prefer a lifetime plan but I understand why that’s a non-starter), the fact that it’s based local to me is good too.
EDIT: I wish it also at least offered a rolling 3-year subscription.
+1 for Fastmail
Since anything but fully on-device encrypted/decrypted mails is still inherently insecure due to being unable to control the receiving end I consider email an insecure medium by default.
That was my reason to go with fastmail when I moved away from Gmail a couple of years ago and I am very happy with their service and apps. I am also paying three years at a time and would like to pay even further ahead of time, but what can you do.
I tried proton but didn’t like being locked into using their apps or hosting the SMTP bridge at which point I might as well use a less secure approach to begin with that is more comfortable to use.
