Author: Soren Stoutner

  • Privacy Browser Android 3.20.1

    Privacy Browser Android 3.20.1 was released on 30 March 2026. It fixes a build problem on F-Droid caused by manually specifying the version of Java to use for the build. These version constraints were vestigial. They were added when the default Java version was less than 17 and I needed to force newer features. Now that the default…

  • Privacy Cell 1.12.2

    Privacy Cell 1.12.2 was released on 30 March 2026. It fixes a build problem on F-Droid caused by manually specifying the version of Java to use for the build. These version constraints were vestigial. They were added when the default Java version was less than 17 and I needed to force newer features. Now that…

  • Privacy Cell 1.12.1

    Privacy Cell 1.12.1 was released on 19 March 2026. It fixes a bug that caused a crash on open when there is no default Voice SIM. This can happen on dual-SIM phones if neither of the SIM cards is set as the default.

  • Privacy Browser Android 3.20

    Privacy Browser Android 3.20 was release on 11 March 2026. This release includes a major refactoring of the filter list system to make it more like the one implemented in Privacy Browser PC. This work took a lot of time and resulted in the release being delayed. The description of the filter lists in the…

  • 2025 Financial Report

    REVENUE Total Revenue: $42,864.07 Crypto currency is a combination of Bitcoin and Monero donations. Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. PayPal comes from Liberapay, sales on Samsung’s Galaxy App Store, and from direct donations. Amazon revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on the Amazon AppStore. Patreon revenue comes from Patreon donations. The majority…

  • 2025 Security and Privacy Canary

    BACKDOORS During 2025, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. During 2025, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. PRIVACY During 2025, Stoutner received 0 secret requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to…

  • Privacy Cell 1.12

    Privacy Cell 1.12 was released on 22 December 2025. This release bumps the target API to 36 (Android 16). In Android 16, the notification icon has been changed to always show the app icon (probably to prevent icon spoofing, where a malicious notification displays the icon of a different app to hide its identity). But…

  • Privacy Cell 1.11

    Privacy Cell 1.11 was released on 29 April 2025. This release now shows which SIM card is active for each of the connections, which is useful for devices with more than one SIM card. As part of making this information easy to read on the screen, the interface was changed to use a card layout.…

  • Privacy Browser Android 3.19.3

    Privacy Browser Android 3.19.3 was released on 31 January 2025. A crash was fixed that manifested on certain devices and configurations when the bottom app bar was used and the keyboard was displayed when the Navigation Drawer was opened for the first time. Something about the animation of these three things caused a race condition…

  • Privacy Browser PC 0.8

    Privacy Browser PC 0.8 was released on 30 January 2025. From the beginning, there have been problems when changing the user agent. Doing so would cause the current page to reload, interrupting the loading of the new URL. I have finally implemented a solution to this that works around Qt WebEngine’s buggy behavior. Basically, the…