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Mozilla removes telemetry service Adjust from mobile Firefox versions (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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For Android users seeking a privacy-focused browser, Privacy Guides recommends Mull:

Mull is a privacy oriented and deblobbed Android browser based on Firefox. Compared to Firefox, it offers much greater fingerprinting protection out of the box, and disables JavaScript Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation for enhanced security. It also removes all proprietary elements from Firefox, such as replacing Google Play Services references.

Mull enables many features upstreamed by the Tor uplift project using preferences from Arkenfox. Proprietary blobs are removed from Mozilla's code using the scripts developed for Fennec F-Droid.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can change the position of the toolbar to the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Neat! Just gave it a try and it’s much better now, one issue I miss is you can’t swipe (left right) on the address bar to go to the next/prev tab

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

You'll find that under settings -> customise -> swipe address bar sideways to switch tabs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can change that as well. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe on android but not on iOS

Plus if you don’t have any next tab the swipe creates a new tab instead

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless you use the synchronization features of Firefox, I think it would be best to use safari on IOS.

At least until they bring their own engine to the OS.

My reasoning: None offer content blocking, you get better fingerprinting protection with safari and you have one less application.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Safari offers ad blocking on iOS. You just have to get your extensions through the App Store. But other browsers don’t (yet).