As the title states, either these browsers are nothing but full of trackers and ads or they are so locked down that they are basically not functional. Why can’t I find a browser that is just a freaking browser but with no BS???
Mullvad browser is great
Until you remember their co-founder funds fascism:
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/mullvad-vpn-circles-the-drain-on-nazism-with-anti-privacy-pr/
Do you fully boycott Coca-Cola, Amazon, Meta, Johnson & Johnson, Dupont, Monsanto, Sysco, Chic-Fil-A, and Nestle too? They all donate considerably more money to authoritarian regimes.
aRe yOu a vEgEtAriAn/vEgAn???
That’s a fun hot take, regardless the open source browser they sponser is amazing and it’s exactly what I want out of the box.
It’s not a hot take. It’s a fact that has been acknowledged via public statements from the individual in question and the company.
it’s an extremely hot take to call them a nazi because you disagree on one person’s political viewpoints on immigration, and try to purity test a great open source project because of it.
because you disagree on one person’s political viewpoints on immigration
That’s a very mild way of saying that the political party he donates to supports ethnic cleansing. These are direct quotes from its leader:
In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: “why won’t the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?” and in the same debate said that “Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.”
In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.
now you have moved the goalposts from mullvad, to one of its founders using personal money, now to a political party that isn’t involved in mullvad.
does any of this impact the open source project? no.
Are you lost? Go back and reach the comment chain, I haven’t “mOvEd tHe gOaLpOsTs” at all. The original reply to your first comment (from another person) was:
Until you remember their co-founder funds fascism
We were always talking about the co-founder in this comment chain, all of my replies to you have been about him.
After hearing on the recent controversy from Mullvad, I’m not gonna go that route in using them. Same with anything Proton, don’t want the drama.
There isn’t really any controversy with the company or the products. one of the co-founders fail people’s political purity testing, but the products are solid.
Fennec gives you Firefox with the telemetry stuff removed, and can use the same extensions as desktop Firefox.
try helium
ah missed this was android - I use Firefox mobile with ublock origin and it works well.
I’ve had no complaints about Firefox for Android. It even supports privacy addons like NoScript and UBlock Origin.
This has been my browser of choice since the death of Mull
I’m using it in parallel with Fennec. Ironfox a lot of times takes ages to load a page, I know its likely because it is stricter what to strip away or block or whatever it does during that, but sometimes I cannot be bothered to wait 5-10 seconds until I see the page, so I use Fennec.
For anything that loads slower for me, I just use Vanadium. But as someone that has issue with Chromium browsers; it’s a last resort. Though, I might check out Fennec as a secondary.
I might try that to, I recently went back to Fennec and I agree, sometimes I just wanna search up something quick and not really deal with the loop holes
This may be a bit extreme but, try the Emacs Web Browser, no bloat in there.
i use waterfox, it’s been perfect.
I tried Waterfox a few months back and had loads of issues with it, it just didn’t seem ready. I must try it again. using Fennec at the minute.
On a separate note, does anyone know if there’s a reason that you can’t view pages preloaded when offline anymore?
I had damaged my SIM before going to the shop the other day, loaded up a website with a recipe and ingredients on the page before I left using home WiFi.
When I got to the store, I couldn’t view the page, it wanted to load again…
Dude! Right?! It works so well while remaining pretty trustworthy. I added Privacy badger and port authority at the recommendation of EFF and Firefox extension store ratings, just to have it that much more secure. I especially love blocking Lexis Nexis port scanning!
@Ripley_Tripley try waterfox with your own user.js, works fine.
i use vivaldi. fine for mobile (just a browser) and really cool fpr desktop since you can customize the ui in any way you want.
Librewolf seems like a go-to choice for many people like you. Assuming you are on mobile, you can try Waterfox (but it might become bloated like FF in a few months, I dunno) or kind of an ungoogled chromium. I tried AOSmium which is another one ungoogled chromium, it is too minimal for me but might be good for you. They also claim to have some Vanadium’s privacy patches (you might try building Vanadium from source btw).
I recently downloaded Ironfox to try it along with Fennec for mobile. So far no issues.
Fennec is pretty pointless. It is deblobbed but still uses Mozilla telemetry.
I noticed that there was an interesting change to this page somewhat recently: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/commit/899f32d17ac1502910412b99d6ffb5f3775b1db6
Seems it didn’t keep up with their requirements. You can see links to several discussions in the PR.
Brave and Safari?? Since when was Safari a recommended browser? Safari’s default search engine is Google (even though they’re not apart of Chromium, they still use Google).
It seems that the default search engine is an iPhone setting, not a Safari setting: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-your-default-search-engine-iphb719b43de/26/ios/26 It seems that DuckDuckGo has been an available search engine since at least Jun 9, 2026 (and that is a search engine that is recommended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89aAHJR6v7k Configuring your operating system is a recommended procedure (though I don’t presently see a recommendation to select which search engine should be used, I do see a recommendation to “Disable Search Engine Suggestions”): https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/ios-overview/?h=iphone#recommended-configuration
Firefox or one of it’s many many forks is the way to go. Personally I use IronFox as a browser that’s locked down by default, with some heavy uBlock Origin as blocking (it’s a less featured uMatrix), and an “on device VPN” app for DNS filtering for device wide ad blocking.
Duckduckgo?
Never for mobile, but I used to use them for desktop as my search engine while my current browser is Firefox. Unfortunately theyve gotten so bad lately.
Huh. I sort of like the mobile browser. Simple and does its job.
Don’t search using the Play Store. This is a rule that applies generally to everything: start your search online, find the right app for you and then go to the Play Store (or the Aurora Store, or F-Droid, or elsewhere) to download it. The Play Store is filled with terrible, data harvesting apps and you can easily get overwhelmed by the endless choice and misleading reviews and descriptions if you try to search within it.
Since working on towards being fully degoogled, the Play Store is off limits. Exploring the different app stores ( Aurora Store, F-Droid, Droid-ify, SaveHaven, Zapstore, Appteka, etc.) Never knew so many different stores existed until finally starting exploring them.
Aurora Store has been helpful, especially in showing you what apps have trackers in them or not. Learning over time whatapls suit me.
The Aurora Store does have the same issue, in the sense that it has the same apps and reviews, but you’re right that it is much cleaner and more functional. The εxodus reports being built into the store is also one of my favourite features.
All apks uploaded to the PlayStore have Google trackers by default. Choose alternative stores whenever possible.
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