bromite VS src.next

Our goal with the Chromium provided in CalyxOS has been to provide a browser with a solid base of privacy and security enhancements vs Chromium (and by extension, vs Chrome) while still allowing most sites and WebView-based apps to function as expected out of the box. We do this by using select changes from Cromite (and prior to that, Bromite). Some of these include the under-the-hood deactivation of intrusive features and analytics, while others provide additional site settings to adjust features like WebGL and WebRTC, features which are sometimes necessary but which can aid in fingerprinting or identification when turned on. We also bring in the legacy ad blocker from Bromite/Cromite to offer some reasonable protection from the worst kinds of ads. You can find and adjust these features in Settings.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite Browser (based on Chrome)

Normally, I'd recommend Bromite as a lightweight Chromium-based browser with built-in adblocking, but the project appears to be asleep right now. It might be worth checking it in a few weeks, though.

Bromite via either its site/Fdroid, GitHub or Woolyss site has a bottom bar available in accessibility settings. (The first one has been unmaintained for a while, but has auto updates available if they ever drop. The other two are up to date but must be updated manually.)

Bromite hasn't been updated since December: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases

context: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

According to their github repo, it was last rebased with chromium version 105.0.5195.24, which was from August 2022. Using a 15 month old browser seems hilariously insecure.

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next

I've never tried Kiwi Browser but had similarly come across it while searching. The dev interestingly refers to them ads[1] (2022), though prior to being accepted properly into Bing's referral program Kiwi redirected all search queries through their own servers[2][3] (2021) (the original Kiwi repo's issues tab has been deleted since).

Tbf dev always sounds reasonable in their responses but was a little off-putting initially so I kinda understand the GP's post.

[1] https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/91#issuecomme...

[2] https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20210605191305/https://github.co...

Download the latest version of Kiwi Browser from it's original source like github Kiwi Browser GitHub Releases (Choose the 2nd one tagged ARM/64 if you're using it from Playstore rn, choose the first ARM/64 if you're using GitHub apks rn) OR Kiwi Browser July 21 UpToDown

com.kiwibrowser.browser-arm64-5624320950-github.apk231 MByesterday

Maybe I should also mention Kiwi Browser (Chromium-based) and Iceraven (Firefox-based) specifically for mobile.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought they walked back on that? And I think the source code repo is now : https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next ? Maybe that's just the chromium rebase repo though.

Other things you could try: an older version of Kiwi Browser, or a version of Kiwi from the GitHub.

Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. You can see here that it's only had one commit in the last 6 months