🌐 Still using Chrome in 2026?
Chrome sees EVERYTHING: Every search. Every site. Every click. All sent to Google 24/7. 📡
I tested 4 browsers so you don’t have to:
🔴 Chrome — tracks everything. Avoid. 🟡 Vivaldi — better, but not fully open 🟢 Cromite — FOSS, de-Googled Chrome 🦊 IronFox — the privacy king. My daily.
Which one are YOU using?
I can’t find either Cromite or Ironfox on F-Droid…what am I missing ?
They have their own repos:
Why give 8/10 to cromite and not 10/10?
Cromite is built on Chromium Google’s engine, so even with all the hardening, the base code still comes from Google. IronFox is built on Firefox which has zero connection to Google from the start. That’s why 8 vs 10
Have you seen the better browsing experience? It’s on Zen. It’s literally on Librewolf. It’s on Floorp without ads. It’s literally on Waterfox. You can probably find it on Ironfox. Dude it’s on Ladybird. It’s a Servo original. It’s on GNOME Web. You can browse on GNOME Web. You can go to GNOME Web and browse it. Epiphany has it for you. </joke>
Yeah ok but zen is actually pretty good for a free browser.
I respect your opinion very much… but there is nothing better than Ironfox in terms of privacy and tracking… It is available on fdroid and its official website and is completely open source… Unlike Zen and Waterfox, it is not very strong in privacy. As for browsers like gnome web, it uses a different engine, which is webkitgtk, and it is very weak in extensions…
Reference:
Happy cake day, bot (or spammer) 😃
Brother, I am just sharing the importance of the Ironfox browser compared to any browser on Android. And I am not a bot.
I’d argue chromium based browsers are significantly better than gecko simply for security. Obviously Chrome is bad, but Vanadium and other such browsers are significantly better than any firefox remixes.
As for my claim that you’re a bot, see my earlier reply, and you’re brand new.
This is absolutely true…the browser built on Chromium is always the best on Android…
If Chromium is the best browser for android, why are you calling IronFox “the privacy king”?
I meant Chromium in terms of performance and speed, not privacy. IronFox is the strongest in anti-tracking and privacy of any Chromium browser — except Vanadium on GrapheneOS, which is an exception because it is very specifically stringent, but is only available on GrapheneOS.
Yes brother, I am new to this server. I apologize, I don’t know that I shouldn’t publish an image I created from ai…but I wrote that introduction myself.
Ok, I see you are in fact not a bot. My mistake. In future I’ll avoid jumping to such sudden conclusions. I hope you enjoy your stay on Lemmy!
As for the AI image… Yeah, you should probably avoid those here. Some communities are more welcoming than others, but generally AI is quite disliked in the privacy community. It also makes you look very bot-like when you use one as your first ever post.
Thank you 🤝🤝🥰
I am not a bot.
So why couldn’t you type just the few sentences of your post body yourself? It’s hilarious that you warn against pro-privacy browsers while using AI, the most privacy-invasive tool of all, to do it… And by the way, Waterfox ain’t bad, either.
What ?
I dunno, maybe you’re a person, but the way your post is written, and the theme of the screenshot, screams AI.
I use IronFox, this list fits with my biases
This is wonderful🤝🤝. Yes, it is the best browser in terms of privacy and security on Android ever.
I do love the sycophanting, I gotta say. I see why Elon has a team of yes-men
Vivaldi source available and auditable, UI proprietary, de-googled, third party cookies also off by default, ping to Vivaldi every 24 h statistical anonymous data, to nowhere else, green energy with own servers in Iceland for sync, mail, userblog and own services like Theme catalogue, Forum, Mastodon, etc…
About Fennec? That’s also Firefox
wouldn’t hardened anti fingerprinting just make you stick out?
IronFox solves this in two ways… It makes your fingerprint the same for all IronFox users, not unique and it prevents fingerprinting scripts from running at all before your fingerprint is read
When we talk about these browsers with ultra marginal market share, this unfortunately equals to unique. If it could spoof for example ”latest chrome on latest vanilla windows, using the most common resolution screen”, then I’d see some actual value.
🤝🤝🙏
Went back and forth between the following:
Vanadium - secure Chromium browser installed by default on GrapheneOS, Bromite/Cromite - alternative secure/private Chromium browser, Quetta Browser - private Chromium browser that comes with an AI-based ad blocker and extension support, IronFox - private Gecko browser that is as hardened as LibreWolf or Mull Browser.
Right now, I’m daily driving Cromite and IronFox, the former now having extension support via Developer Options, which allowed me to enable and install extensions like uBlock Origin Lite and “I Still Don’t Care About Cookies”.
I’ve use IronFox as my backup, but prefer Vanadium.
I use Vivaldi for when websites demand I use a chrome browser. Despite having an adblocker, it doesn’t block everything.
Also, Chrome-based browsers have the habit of occasionally forgetting all saved logins, something that never happens with with Firefox-based browsers.
About Fennec? That’s also Firefox.
Also ironfox has its own fdroid repo. They aren’t in the official store.
After switching to Brave two years ago, I haven’t looked back. On my Android phone, strictly speaking. Just like when you install Graphene OS on a Pixel, installing a chromium based, privacy first FOSS browser feels like slapping Google in face, which feels good. XD
It just needs some simple debloating which is applicable to Android too. In addition, do disabled Leo too, Brave’s AI client.
On PC, I’m on LibreWolf.
You might want to think about who you are supporting by using brave.
Thank you for sharing this. I guess, I should’ve “looked back”. The original article is pretty chilling. Although, simply being anti marginalized people is enough for me. I’ll look into some alternatives.
