Honestly the lack of ad blockers in Vanadium pushes me towards Firefox even though the devs say that Firefox is far less secure. So many web sites are just hard to use on mobile without an ad blocker so I’m curious what the rest of you are doing.
Mull
I have the same reasons for using mull (Firefox fork). I love having an adblocker along side my VPN’s ad block. I also hate the chromium UI/UX, mostly because the search bar is on the top of the screen.
Bromite before it died, RIP :( Vanadium now with regular dns adblocking where security matters, Fennec where it doesn’t.
There is a fork of Bromite, called Cromite, if you’re interested.
This one looks cool, but I am so used to having a sync service that I can’t enjoy it fully :/
You could use DNS and stick with Vanadium. AdGuard, nextdns, decloudus, Mullvad… all good for ad blocking and probably more effective as it’s system wide
DNS blocking is different than content blocking. A content blocker like ublock can block more than just domains by injecting scripts into DOM (iirc im not a webdev)
This is what I ended up opting for and it works very well
FF
I flip between Mull and Cromite.
What’s cromite ?
Prettt sure it’s the updated Bromite fork
Yes, it’s the fork of Bromite that uazo is maintaining.
Mull with Adblock plus, Ghostery and Decentral eyes. Btw. I hope they soon update their icon to be Material theme compatible.
Honest question: is using those 3 addons better than sticking to just uBlock Origin?
I have read multiple times that the best is to just uBlock Origin and nothing else, since other addons are redundant and together will make your fingerprint easier to recognize.
Honest answer, I don’t know. I will for sure not install another extension. What I like from Ghostery is the “auto decline cookie banner” funktion.
uBlock Origin also has this functionality in its “annoyances” list category
I just tried it and it did not work for a website I often visit.
Mull with ublock origin, always on VPN to my house with pihole for DNS.
I use Firefox for the “installed” web pages for quick access to internal things like Sonarr since Mull would log me out fairly often.
Mull, Fennec on mobile and Librewolf on laptop
You could just keep vanadium and change the DNS of your phone for mullvad DNS for exemple to block the ads in (nearly ) every app.
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I dont think regular (also not really privacy friendly) Firefox is more secure than hardened Firefox nightly.
Btw Mull from FDroid is a prehardened version of nightly.
Mull with ubo
Hardened Firefox-based browser like Mull or Klar.
really want to like vanadium, but it’s giving me a unique fingerprint… So I am currently using Brave
I use Vanadium and sometimes DDG or Tor. Mulls a good, hardcore browser as well.
And for vanadium, I use an ad blocking DNS, which is https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query
Isn’t perfect but it blocks some ads