Privacy Browser PC 0.9 was released on 25 April 2026. This release contains a number of small changes which polish Privacy Browser and make it more enjoyable to use. JavaScript can now copy text to the keyboard with user interaction (it cannot read text from the clipboard). For example, this now allows a user to…
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 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 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 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…
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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 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 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…