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monegator • today at 2:25 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

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

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Barbing • today at 2:40 PM

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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RandomGerm4n • today at 2:35 PM

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.

EbNar • today at 4:40 PM

Faster.

avazhi • today at 3:06 PM

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

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