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Privacy Browser 2.11
Privacy Browser 2.11 has been released. The major new feature is a Requests activity that shows how many requests were made and how many were blocked. Tapping on an individual request displays further details. The Requests entry in the navigation menu displays the number of blocked requests. I have written some information about how the…
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Privacy Browser Android on Windows 11
Windows 11 has the option to run a Subsystem for Android, which is still fairly new but has reached the stage of general availability. Microsoft has partnered with Amazon to list apps from the Amazon Appstore in certain countries. There are a number of websites with instructions for setting up the Windows Subsystem for Android…
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Privacy Browser Android 3.15.1
Privacy Browser Android 3.15.1 was released on 26 June 2023. The main purpose of the release was fixing a bug, introduced with duplicate bookmark folder names in 3.15, that caused the app to crash if a bookmark was moved to the home folder in the Bookmarks Activity. The rest of the items were ready to…
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Increasing Privacy Browser Android’s Pricing
I have made the decision to increase the price of Privacy Browser Android from $1 to $5 USD on Google Play, the Amazon AppStore, and the Galaxy App Store. Ever since Privacy Browser Android was first released it has been available for $1. Privacy Browser Android will always be available from F-Droid or similar repositories…
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Minimizing Privacy Browser’s Attack Surface
Every piece of software as complex as a browser that receives unsanitized information from the internet will eventually be compromised. How often that happens and how damaging the compromises are can be mitigated through a careful design process. Some information about decreasing the damage that a compromise can inflict is discussed on the Core Privacy…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.4
Privacy Browser PC 0.4 was released on 13 June 2023. A setting was added to enable or disable spatial navigation, which is the ability to navigate between links and input fields using the arrow keys. There is some discussion about this feature on Fosstodon. Given that some people find this feature annoying, I decided to…
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Privacy Browser Android 3.15
Privacy Browser Android 3.15 was released on 12 June 2023. The major factor in the timing of this release was a desire to reenable the dark WebView on Android 7-9 (APIs 24-28). Privacy Browser Android 3.12 bumped the target API to 33, which changed the way the dark WebView worked. Privacy Browser Android 3.12.2 extended…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.3
Privacy Browser PC 0.3 was released on 8 May 2023. The changelog is now included in the Handbook. The current domain settings icon is now displayed on Gnome and Xfce. Changes were made so that Privacy Browser PC will build on Guix. This lays the groundwork to run Privacy Browser in a container, which is…
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Privacy Browser Android 3.14
Privacy Browser Android 3.14 was released on 6 May 2023. The domain settings spinner entries now have a highlighted background if they are not default. This change will eventually also be applied to the switches when they are converted to spinners. The terms whitelist and blacklist have been removed from the project. In English these…
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Privacy Browser Android 2.13
Privacy Browser Android 2.13 was released on 29 October 2018. 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…
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