why use brave, really, when you have firefox? I get it if you're on iOS

▲ Barbing 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Best iOS strategy that comes to mind is Safari:

  -iCloud Private Relay (native VPN-like thing)  
  -uBlock Origin Lite
  -AdGuard DNS

(Using fresh private tabs for small privacy gain?) Better than third-party skinned browsers right? Always happy to be informed otherwise.

(AdGuard does have an option to supplant uBlock in this stack btw, does “advanced” blocking https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-ios/web-extension/ which is nice but trust $mm-refusing uBlock dev gorhill forever)

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Anthony-G 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This sounds like good advice so upvoted. I’m a big fan of Raymond Hill¹’s products so I am curious about how much benefit Adguard provides if uBlock Origin is already blocking online trackers, ads and other annoyances.

¹ In this case, the developer – not the musician. I really liked the user interface of uMatrix.

	▲	Barbing 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s really nice to have ad and tracker domains blocked systemwide though I think you need to be more careful and set your device up as supervised to have more robust blocking (real always-on VPN functionality vs. best effort?). And even then when I read about defects in Apple software that means a firewall like Little Snitch isn’t perfect (macOS) I think an external device (mobile VPN router?) is going to be essential for some threat models. (& uMatrix looks great!)

▲ RandomGerm4n 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m a Firefox user myself but there are some very valid arguments against it on Android as well. Firefox on Android is significantly more vulnerable to exploits, lacks internal sandboxing and doesn’t properly isolate tabs from each other.

▲ avazhi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Firefox and Brave are both profoundly bad on iOS. Scrolling is a nightmare.

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jdmg94 4 hours ago | parent [-]

everything on iOS is just a safari skin

	▲	rafram 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's not totally true. Orion supports Chrome/FF WebExtensions, for example. The engine does (practically, even in the EU) have to be WebKit, but that's not the same thing as a "Safari skin."
	▲	dadoum 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There is Reynard if you're motivated too (Gecko-based, but it's not ready for prime time yet, and to get good performance you'll have to resort to some workaround to get JIT enabled, as it does not rely on Apple's BrowserEngineKit; one of the goals of the project is giving to not up-to-date iOS devices access to a modern browser).

▲ EbNar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Faster.