Iceraven tracks you for the Twitter???
I don’t know if iceraven has trackers but it doesn’t have privacy enhancement anyway.
Iceraven does not have any Twitter or Facebook trackers.
With browsers these tracker blocker apps won’t report correctly since they cannot discern between the connections of the browser itself and of the websites you visit.
You might consider instead using Fennec F-Droid (fully free as opposed to Iceraven) with uBlock Origin (should be used regardless).
I also personally don’t recommend DDG’s blocker and instead would suggest you use Rethink or NetGuard or personalDNSfilter.
I’m giving Fennec a try right now.
It’s significantly slower in Speedometer @ browserbench.org test, which may be pain on the older device where Iceraven was already slow on heavy sites.
Btw. Seems that GitHub app from play store is tracking too and using browser for this is slow as hell. I’ve tried OctoDroid, but it’s… ugly. Couldn’t find the option to change its condensed font.
All other GitHub clients on f-droid are old… Any recommendation on this?
Some say that TrackerControl is best, but it’s also pain to configure everything per app.
There are banking apps that seem to track, but just can’t get rid of them, so I need at least basic DDG blocker.
Btw. I didn’t visit Twitter, only one popular “social media” that still exists for me is Facebook. For amusement and get some basic technical info. Thus I have no idea why DDG shown the tracker…
Another thing: I’m switching from Gmail to Thunderbird or FairEmail - the latter is a pain to configure too - really many options, but not the simple ones, and Thunderbird doesn’t have all the options I need. Or I’m too dumb still.
After over 20 years using Linux I’ve used to configuring apps to all my needs, but some things are just too much. Examples are TC, FairEmail, and may be some more I don’t recall right now…
It may be that free Android apps are less mature than Linux’s, as Android is much younger, at least twice as my first Linux distros were but I’m not going to let go my way.
Little bit of OT here but I’m curious if Android users of FOSS apps use Linux too and what distros? You think I may open another thread for that just for my curiosity or possibly some more knowledge?
This is because Fennec F-Droid compiles Gecko from source with its own source built tool chain as opposed to Iceraven which uses Mozilla’s prebuilt copy of Gecko compiled with their toolchain.
Do try Rethink first.
Websites will embed trackers (in the form of widgets usually) from sites like Twitter.
What simple options are you missing? They may just be in a non-inuitive location.
I currently use Linux Mint because it was an easy transition from Windows. I recently deleted Windows from my other drive in my dual-boot setup, so Im going to try out a different one soon (likely Fedora).
I’m missing an option to unify all the font size in whole app, when reading emails.
I use Arch Linux btw. 
Lean but mean 
no unnecessary deps, totally qt-less. Xfce is enough.
I pity that no other app can format emails threads & conversations like Gmail… Maybe it’s just my stupid habit, but I wish to drop Gmail so I’ve uninstalled it on favour of Thunderbird and Fairemail and testing ATM.
Arch by default has no built in LSM btw and no Firewall. Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives use AppArmor and RedHat/Fedora/derivatives use SELinux.
If you care about security do manually setup by following the wiki.
Is something like PGO missing in Fennec build?
please see this thread Why is AppArmor considered useless? - #7 by SkewedZeppelin - Questions - Privacy Guides Community
I’m not sure, I never figured it out. I think they only use PGO on desktop builds.
Why rethink needs permission: to camera and microphone, also * read the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
(12L)?
@ignoramous ^^^
probably for the qr scanning for wireguard keys?
And why needs permission to read and write content storage?
I see net guard and tracker control who have option to save and export settings or import Block list dont require extended permission for storage.
Speaking of options in weird locations, I was testing Thunderbird beta 11, waiting for font options, but weirdest thing was, when I’ve installed v.10, and configured from scratch and found the font options where they should be. Why older version might have proper options, and newer not? So I’ve cleared the beta app cache and options appeared in beta - why weren’t they from first install?
So I’m staying with Thunderbird stable now, while I have all I want. No Gmail anymore.
I don’t get it.
You say Iceraven is prebuilt by Mozilla and Fennec compiled by its maintainers, but just look at their pages - they say contrary. Iceraven says it’s not Mozilla’s service, and Fennec says it is.
What’s going on?
And btw. what makes Fennec so small? On f-droid it’s download size is 100 MB, while original Firefox is 130 MB. Iceraven is smaller too - latest 2.32.0 is 107 MB for same architecture as previous ones.
Sorry, I didn’t know how to partially quote you.
select text… .press quote?
Works, thx, this forum is very much different that I’ve used years ago.
Thank you for your understanding.
Iceraven only compiles the top-level Fenix component and reuses Mozilla’s prebuilt Gecko component: `com.google.android.gms:play-services-fido` ends up in the build and pulls in other parts of the Google Play Services client library · Issue #463 · fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser · GitHub
Fennec F-Droid compiles both from source: build.sh · master · relan / fennecbuild · GitLab
