https://divestos.org/pages/news
Divest OS apps are discontinued, hereafter you didn’t get any update from following apps
Hypatia
Extirpater
Mull (browser)
Mulch (Divest OS Repo) (browser)
GMaps WV
Carrion
MergedWiFiNLP
MotionLock
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That’s sad…
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Why should Hypatia in particular be uninstalled? Surely it is not going to suddenly stop working. I accept the lack of updates will decrease its effectiveness as time goes on, but until somebody developes a replacement it still has some functionality.
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With Hypatia and Carrion anyone can create the databases themself and you as a user simply change the URL.
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Good morning @SkewedZeppelin
I am heartily sorry to hear about DivestOS. We lost the best system for our mobiles. I was happy with it 
What links do you recommend for Hypatia?
DivestOS Hosts will still be active and updated?
Best regards
@SkewedZeppelin:
Thank you for showing what is possible.
- oops… RIP
- perhaps they might be
rescued by fork
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What should We replace Mull and Mulch with?
Multch → Cromite (only open source privacy respecting alternative from that i can tell)
Mull → Fennec (Same thing with different default options from what i can tell)
Also @SkewedZeppelin thanks for the long 10 years of support on your projects
Ceno Browser, EinkBro, Cromite, Lightning, FOSS Browser, Monocles Browser, TOR Browser and few more you can try. Few are Gecko based btw.
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There is a fork of Mull.
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What about Iceraven?
I have started using Fennec and adjusted some about:config preferences in the reverse of what is described on Broken - DivestOS Mobile. The same approach should work for IceRaven, but I don’t see much benefit of IceRaven over Fennec.
I’ll be looking into IronFox. Thank you @linsui for pointing it out.
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That way you’re just applying the annoyances of Mull, while leaving a bunch of holes. If you’d want to apply it properly, you’d have to go through: mull-fenix/preferences at master - divested-mobile/mull-fenix - Codeberg.org
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Thank you for the link. Finding some settings from the website was much easier for me than looking for all of them in Codeberg.
And you can still get the last updated definitions using the cloudflare mirror server override. If you have any android 4.1 device or newer it can benefit from this immensely.
I’ve been looking at ways we can continue on with a custom server for hypatia and it looks like you can pass ClamAV signatures to the hypatia signature db converter then gpg sign it, upload it to a webserver,
Input the webserver url as a database override, and update the gpg key in the override.
I love that this is mentioned. They just implemented their own extensions recommendation tree over mozilla’s which I think is also neat. Rolling releases can be automated through Obtanium and (hopefully soon) added to app verifier to be verified. The latest update just enabled fission tab sanboxing so I’m curious how it competes with chrome sandboxing as a main browser?
I found that SpamBlocker, despite being a bit more complicated to setup is a good replacement for carrion. It provides tunable automation scripts to pull the latest DNC database according to the current date and corresponding .csv file for devices/carriers that lack stir support.
By setting the rules to enable stir/shaken as inclusive but pass unverified, then check against the automatically updated DNC database, and use it to block both calls and sms, I can relax my do not disturb settings and allow non-contacts to message me again, while supporting other people who’s devices still don’t have stir/shaken (quite a few actually)
I guess one last mention. Vanadium System Webview is a good replacement imo to mulch webview as it was largely based off of it. Requires trichrome library installed as a dependency but it’s worth the hassle of installing and finding the prebuilt binaries.
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Good afternoon:
@OgreLord could you clarify, for non-experts. What you comment about Hypatia.
And I don’t know if you know of any tutorial to configure SpamBlocker
Thanks for your help and time.
Hypatia and the default server it connects to is discontinued, it ran mostly on ClamAV signatures (and a few others from different organizations) that were passed through the signature db converter (provided on the project archive) if you have errors downloading the last updates around the end of December there’s a cloudflare mirror option you can select in the settings that should still serve the files.
I mention hypatia and the custom server idea because I still can’t find an alternative FOSS anti-malware solution, it appears hypatia was alone.
I haven’t much looked in to ClamAV but it appears that it’s largely focused on defending against malware through email and javascript. If I were to fork hypatia, I’d like to take the approach of SpamBlocker and connect the user directly to the definitions source and use their device to compile the database, instead of relying on a maintainer to run a webserver to provide the filtered signatures from ClamAV. But I’m not sure what licences are involved yet with ClamAV definitions or why a definitions server is needed. Maybe to offload the compiling to the server if it takes a while on a mobile device.
For now as it is, we need someone to host a server that automatically runs ClamAV signatures through the hypatia signature db converter and provides them on a url for people to set.
Those little question marks next to each setting in SpamBlocker should explain what each option does. I recommend following my screenshot for maximum compatibility and minimal spam calls. On the workflow settings at the bottom is where you can enable the default DNC workflow that gets and compiles the DNC database on a weekday schedule (same schedule that the database files are updated) and just to get the database for the first time you can press the “test” button on the workflow settings.
If you want proper SMS filtering you need to disable notifications for your default SMS app as SpamBlocker takes over SMS notifications and filters them through STIR/DNC
Good afternoon to you as well 
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Good afternoon @OgreLord
Thank you very much for your reply and help.
Hypatia is and was the only application, that I know of, that performed that open source function for Android. Since ClamAV is for Linux and Windows.
Server I don’t have. I used to use github before but they shut it down on me without explanation and without doing anything wrong to anyone and without breaking any rules. And I was helping there several developers. But as they said on github, we shut it down because your account is not yours. It’s ours, it’s always ours, we want to and we can do it because of the terms and conditions. If I know someone who has one, I will gladly tell you about it, as Divestos apps was a big loss 
About SpamBlocker, I will try to follow your screenshot, and your directions.
Thanks a million for your time and help
@OgreLord A user is currently trying to create a fork for Hypatia on GitHub, but still needs support. Maybe you could help him?
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It just arrived on Izzyonfdroid’s repo too, definitely looking in to this and I recommend everyone try it out for the updated database