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2020 Financial Report
Revenue Google Play: $388.14 Stripe: $126.74 PayPal: $82.67 Patreon: $56.05 Bitcoin: $52.10 Amazon: $44.78 Total revenue: $750.48 Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. PayPal comes from Liberapay donations, selling the standard flavor on XDA Labs, and from direct donations. Patreon revenue comes from…
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2020 Security and Privacy Canary
Backdoors During 2020, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser. During 2020, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser. Privacy During 2020, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to weaken the privacy of Privacy Browser. During 2020, Stoutner has made 0 changes to weaken the privacy…
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Bug in WebView’s Handling of Nested Scrolling
A user recently pointed out to me that there is a bug in WebView’s handling of nested scrolling which causes the long-press menu to appear when the user’s finger is on a link, the app bar is being scrolled on or off the screen, and the scroll moves at a slow pace. This is caused…
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Privacy Browser 3.6.1
Privacy Browser 3.6.1 was released with fix for a bug that caused View Source to crash on release builds. Because most of my devices are running debug builds it took a while before I was able to reproduce the bug. The root cause was that ProGuard, which removed unneeded methods in release builds to make…
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Privacy Browser 3.6
This release fixes a bug that allowed buffered audio to continue to play when a tab was closed. There is a similar bug that I have a hard time reproducing that has similar symptoms, but includes the favorite icon for the closed tab being displayed on a remaining tab. If anyone is able to reproduce…
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Bug in Android’s Spinner Touch Parser
I received an email from a user pointing out a scrolling bug that sometimes manifests in the Domain Settings activity. After looking into it, it appears that Android’s touch parsing isn’t very smart about touches and swipes when they are over spinners (the drop down boxes). Usually, a finger must touch and then lift off…
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Let’s Encrypt ISRG Root X1 and Privacy Browser
23 December 2020 Update: Let’s Encrypt decided this wasn’t a smart idea, and extended the expiration date until 2024. So, for this immediate scenario, these instructions are no longer necessary. However, I will leave them up for people who are interested in the details of how to add a certificate authority to Android. On January…
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Privacy Browser 3.5.1
Privacy Browser 3.5.1 contains two important bug fixes relating to the the new Day/Night theme and how Privacy Browser now handles being restarted by the OS. The first fixes a problem with the intents (links from other apps) not opening if Privacy Browser was restarted in the background by the OS. Privacy Browser would restore…
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Privacy Browser Will Never Monetize the Default Search Engine
This morning I received the following email. Hi Soren, I hope all is well. I’m Chris – CMO at Startpage and I came across your Privacy Browser as I was looking into F-Droid. I saw Startpage on the screenshots on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standardI assume you’re a fan and wanted to reach out to hear what you think…
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Liberapay Account
F-Droid turned me on to Liberapay, which is similar to Patreon, but with a focus on open source principles. As such, it is right up my alley. I have created a Liberapay account and listed it on the Donations page.