Bromite it’s more privacy friendly. Doesn’t have any telemetry or trackers, is shipped with real mitigations against fingerprint, an adblocker, and others features, including:
remove click-tracking and AMP from search results
always-incognito mode
make all favicon requests on-demand (supercookie mitigation)
These features are enabled by deafult so, you’re going to blend in crowd with others bromite users which is really good because it’ll way harder uniquely identify a single user.
Security wise, bromite is better. Chomium based browser come with useful security features, like site isolation, CFI and JIT hardening. Instead, Firefox lacks several security mitigations, especially on android. You can see more here. Moreover, bromite uses security enhancement patches from GrapheneOS project.
Keep in mind that security is also important as privacy. Actually, security is the first line of defense to protect your privacy.
Firefox
Firefox comes with telemetry and trackers enabled by default. However, you can disable the telemetry , in the stable version of Firefox android about:config page is blocked so, you can’t disable all the telemetry. About the trackers I’m not really sure, I think that you can’t disable them using the browser’s settings. Firefox Is shipped with enchanted privacy protection, a tool which protect the users against cross site tracking, social media tracking, cryptominers, fingerprint and more. Ideally, you’d use the standard protection, because is the one enabled by default thus used by majority of users.
In Firefox you can use add ons, but keep in mind that every add on installed make you more fingerprintable. I linked some articles regarding these problems here.
Iceraven
Irevanven it’s a fork or Firefox with some modifications and not up to date, which is really bad, every software should be always up to date, it’s most important form of protection you have. You can see the full list of features here
Fork of Firefox are almost always not up to date, they doesn’t add useful privacy and security enchantments. Instead, they just remove telemetry and other closed source components like pocket.
On Firefox , beside the stable version on android, you can disable pocket, telemetry, google safe browsing and basically everything.
Madaidan doesn’t spread any FUD and doesn’t promote windows over linux. He wrote a purely objective technical analysis about Linux security; many security experts share this view, such as:
Grsecurity, the Foundational security for the Linux kernel.
Note that these analyses are purely objective and do not account for threat models or other user-dependent factors.
Users should choose a software according to their own user case and threat model. I personally use Fedora 34 with KDE plasma as desktop environment, I prefer Linux over Windows because of the foss ideology. However, the problems pointed out by madaidan and other security researchers still remain. You said that madaidan spread fud, but you didn’t show any evidence. Madaidan himself uses Linux (I think qubesOS + Whonix because he use Tor for everything)
And his Chrome shilling is highly related to his hatred for Firefox’s anti racism political stance
First of all, madaidan uses Firefox, he said that many times on Spite. Second of all, this is a very serious accusation, you should show proofs.
Have had a lot of one to one experience with him, his sockpuppets and his friends.
That doesn’t mean they spread FUD about software. Drama it’s really a waste of time.
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I use GrapheneOS as my daily driver and love it. I’ve also been active in the GrapheneOS Matrix community and have never seen anything that I would consider questionable. I’ve never received money, but I guess my payment for this comment is a FOSS, deGoogled, hardened OS.
GrapheneOS it’s fine. The community it’s also fine. Please don’t believe stranger’s words, don’t believe my word either, do your own research. you too are in the grapheneOS community and you can see it’s not toxic at all.
Bromite it’s more privacy friendly. Doesn’t have any telemetry or trackers, is shipped with real mitigations against fingerprint, an adblocker, and others features, including:
remove click-tracking and AMP from search results
always-incognito mode
make all favicon requests on-demand (supercookie mitigation)
reduced referer granularity
enable all network isolation features
You can see the full list of features here
These features are enabled by deafult so, you’re going to blend in crowd with others bromite users which is really good because it’ll way harder uniquely identify a single user.
Security wise, bromite is better. Chomium based browser come with useful security features, like site isolation, CFI and JIT hardening. Instead, Firefox lacks several security mitigations, especially on android. You can see more here. Moreover, bromite uses security enhancement patches from GrapheneOS project.
Keep in mind that security is also important as privacy. Actually, security is the first line of defense to protect your privacy.
Firefox comes with telemetry and trackers enabled by default. However, you can disable the telemetry , in the stable version of Firefox android about:config page is blocked so, you can’t disable all the telemetry. About the trackers I’m not really sure, I think that you can’t disable them using the browser’s settings. Firefox Is shipped with enchanted privacy protection, a tool which protect the users against cross site tracking, social media tracking, cryptominers, fingerprint and more. Ideally, you’d use the standard protection, because is the one enabled by default thus used by majority of users. In Firefox you can use add ons, but keep in mind that every add on installed make you more fingerprintable. I linked some articles regarding these problems here.
Irevanven it’s a fork or Firefox with some modifications and not up to date, which is really bad, every software should be always up to date, it’s most important form of protection you have. You can see the full list of features here
Fork of Firefox are almost always not up to date, they doesn’t add useful privacy and security enchantments. Instead, they just remove telemetry and other closed source components like pocket. On Firefox , beside the stable version on android, you can disable pocket, telemetry, google safe browsing and basically everything.
I didn’t find information about stix and icecast.
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Madaidan doesn’t spread any FUD and doesn’t promote windows over linux. He wrote a purely objective technical analysis about Linux security; many security experts share this view, such as:
Grsecurity, the Foundational security for the Linux kernel.
Brad Spengler, president of Grsecurity
another article from grsecurity
OpenSSF - the state of linux kernel security
OpenWall
Daniel Micay, lead developer of GrapheneOS
He also wrote:
Users should choose a software according to their own user case and threat model. I personally use Fedora 34 with KDE plasma as desktop environment, I prefer Linux over Windows because of the foss ideology. However, the problems pointed out by madaidan and other security researchers still remain. You said that madaidan spread fud, but you didn’t show any evidence. Madaidan himself uses Linux (I think qubesOS + Whonix because he use Tor for everything)
First of all, madaidan uses Firefox, he said that many times on Spite. Second of all, this is a very serious accusation, you should show proofs.
That doesn’t mean they spread FUD about software. Drama it’s really a waste of time.
Edit: typo and things that are not revelant to the discussion.
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I use GrapheneOS as my daily driver and love it. I’ve also been active in the GrapheneOS Matrix community and have never seen anything that I would consider questionable. I’ve never received money, but I guess my payment for this comment is a FOSS, deGoogled, hardened OS.
GrapheneOS it’s fine. The community it’s also fine. Please don’t believe stranger’s words, don’t believe my word either, do your own research. you too are in the grapheneOS community and you can see it’s not toxic at all.
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