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Category: Privacy Browser Android

  • Privacy Browser 3.3

    Privacy Browser 3.3 has been released. This release took a lot longer than I expected due to a sudden increase in the business of my day job combined with the time constraints of having another child. There was a major reworking of the way Privacy Browser handles proxies. The underlying code was switched from using…

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  • 2019 Security and Privacy Canary

    Backdoors During 2019, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser. During 2019, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser. Privacy During 2019, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to weaken the privacy of Privacy Browser. During 2019, Stoutner has made 0 changes to weaken the privacy…

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  • Privacy Browser 3.2

    Privacy Browser 3.2 has been released. The default search engine and homepage have been changed to Startpage. This is a big enough change that I have written a separate post explaining it. Recent changes in WebView broke proxying though Orbot, which is now fixed. However, this only fixes HPPTS proxying. HTTP proxying is still broken…

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  • Switching to Startpage As the Default Homepage and Search Engine

    Last year, with the release of Privacy Browser 2.12, I changed the default search engine and homepage from DuckDuckGo to Searx. With the release of Privacy Browser 3.2, I am changing it again. Of all the search engines I have seen, I like the structure and philosophy of Searx the most. It is open source…

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  • Privacy Browser 3.1

    Privacy Browser 3.1 has been released. This adds a much requested close tab button to the app bar. If there is only one tab, this button will run Clear and Exit. This release fixes a problem with elements on a web page not being able to scroll left and right that was caused because the…

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  • Privacy Policy Updated to Version 1.7.

    Back in December 2018, with the release of Privacy Browser 2.15, I removed Google’s Ad Consent Library from the free flavor of Privacy Browser. At the time, the text of the ad consent dialog was updated to reflect that these ads were set to be non-personalized, but that the user was no longer identified as…

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  • Problems with WebView and Proxying Through Orbot

    Update: It turns out that there was a change in the WebView commands for proxying beginning in WebView 74. The fix is included in Privacy Browser 3.2. Several recent versions of WebView have had problems with proxying. This has manifested most recently with WebView 74.0.3729.136 on Android Marshmallow (version 6.0, API 23) or newer. When…

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  • Patreon

    Privacy Browser now has a Patreon page. Those desiring to do so may support the development of Privacy Browser via a monthly contribution.

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  • Privacy Browser 3.0.1

    Privacy Browser 3.0.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release to correct a couple of serious bugs in the tabbed browsing interface that couldn’t wait for 3.1. A couple of other items were also added to release because they were ready to go in time and resolved less serious bugs. Because some people don’t…

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  • Cookies and Tabbed Browsing

    Anyone who has been following these posts for a while has noticed the running thread of limitations caused by Android’s WebView, which is why the 4.x series is going to include a forked version called Privacy WebView. While developing tabbed browsing I discovered that first-party cookies are enabled/disabled by app, while third-party cookies are enabled/disabled…

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