Going forward, I thought it would be helpful to post a yearly financial report on the growth of Privacy Browser. Revenue Google Play: $344.09 Google AdMob: $101.57 PayPal: $39.06 Bitcoin: $24.10 Amazon: $1.37 Total Revenue: $510.19 Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Good AdMob revenue comes from the display […]
Author Archives: Soren Stoutner
2018 Security and Privacy Canary
Backdoors During 2018, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser. During 2018, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser. Privacy During 2018, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to weaken the privacy of Privacy Browser. During 2018, Stoutner has made 0 changes to weaken the privacy […]
Privacy Browser 2.15.1
Privacy Browser 2.15.1 has been released. It is an emergency bug fix release that resolves a crash when opening a secondary activity on some devices. Beginning with Privacy Browser 2.15, the drawer header padding is adjusted for phones with notches. The adjustment is calculated based on the height of the status bar every time the […]
GeckoView
From time to time I receive suggestions from people that I change Privacy Browser to use Mozilla’s GeckoView instead of Android’s WebView to render pages. Instead of responding to each of these communications individually, I thought it helpful to write a general post covering this subject and explaining why I am not now considering doing […]
Removal of Google’s Ad Consent Library
Privacy Browser 2.15 features the removal of Google’s Ad Consent library from the free flavor. This was added in Privacy Browser 2.10 to comply with the GDPR. It was never included in the standard flavor. The Ad Consent library performed two functions. The first of which was to determine if a user was located in […]
Privacy Browser 2.15
Privacy Browser 2.15 has been released. A bug was fixed when changing user agents using domain settings. Previously, in some circumstances, when changing user agents it would force a refresh of the current page, which would interrupt the loading of the new page. Privacy Browser now adapts the height of the drawer layouts to account […]
Privacy Browser 2.14
Privacy Browser 2.14 has been released. There are now encrypted import and export options. The password option uses standard Android tools to encrypt the file. A random salt is added to the password, which is then SHA-256 hashed and truncated. The export database is then encrypted using AES 256 GCM. Unfortunately, password encryption is not […]
Download Problems on Android 9 Pie
There appears to be a bug in Android’s Download Manager on Android 9 Pie that causes it to periodically crash and refuse to download files. New downloads will show up as queued, but will fail to download. I’m assuming that at some stage Google will release an update that fixes this, but in the meantime […]
Privacy Browser 2.13
Privacy Browser 2.13 has been released. There is now an activity for exporting and importing settings and bookmarks. Both Privacy Browser and Privacy Browser Free use the same format, so backed up settings can be used to migrate between the two. There is a page that has more detailed information on the database format. Note […]
New Default Homepage and Search Engine
With the release of Privacy Browser 2.12, the default homepage and search engine has been switched to Searx.me. This only applies to new installs of Privacy Browser. Existing users who upgrade will keep whatever their current settings are until they manually change them. The default Tor homepage and search engine has been changed to http://ulrn6sryqaifefld.onion/, […]