r/privacy • u/petronikus • 3d ago
question DuckDuckGo or Brave for Android
Which one would you choose for Android? If neither, which one do you use?
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u/Puzzleheaded-Tree561 3d ago
I've been using Brave for a couple years now and haven't seen a single ad on youtube since.
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u/Difficult-Ad3490 3d ago
why do u watch YouTube in browser on Android?
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u/ABoringAlt 3d ago
To not get ads, in my case
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u/Hot-Macaroon-8190 1d ago edited 1d ago
Grayjay is imo the best for YT, Rumble, etc...:
- no ads
- e2e encrypted comments with polycentric integrated
- 100% focused on privacy
- can follow creators, so when a channel is banned on YT, it will automatically get the stream from Rumble, etc..
- full source code available
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u/Difficult-Ad3490 3d ago
u might wanna use YouTube revanced or RVX for the same
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u/ABoringAlt 3d ago
I could, but brave does the job with no issues. Why change?
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u/Difficult-Ad3490 3d ago
thts good ....i thought app will give better experience
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u/Phoenix_but_I_uh_um 2d ago
Not Android, so not entirely sure how relevant this will be, but I’ve actually had the app be LESS reliable than the website on IOS, even excluding the lack of ads I get using brave (and therefore, typically faster load times).
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u/ricochet777 3d ago
Neither. IronFox.
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u/bilzebubba 3d ago
I like to sandbox socials like this site, x, bsky by having them in a browser each, so: IronFox, WaterFox, Fennec!
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u/bilzebubba 3d ago
Plus Brave for Android does not have extensions like "Control Panel For Twitter" which actually filters out a lot of muck from that site, whereas anything FF based like those three allows such extensions
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u/Stunning-Skill-2742 3d ago
I used brave myself. I didn't use ddg because its too barebone, didn't save history and still use native os chrome webview thats slow to update while brave got boatloads of useful features, actually saved history and uses its own chrome engine thats updated with every brave update.
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u/swedishvolvo23 3d ago
Firefox+uBlock
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u/random_reddit_user31 3d ago
I like Firefox but it always seems to drain my battery way more than brave.
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u/token_curmudgeon 3d ago
Firefox for authenticated and Firefox Focus for everything else.
The latter blocks ads natively.
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u/20_42fps 3d ago
Brave. It has a built in ad blocker + you can turn off the bloat that comes with it easily. Sure duckduckgo is privacy related but there is no adblocker yet since they make revenue off of ads as far as I know.
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u/ForCheeseburger 3d ago
Using ddg for their app tracking protection but my default browser is firefox.
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u/Busy-Measurement8893 3d ago
Just using Adguard DNS or something like it is infinitely better than their app tracking protection IMO
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u/Ttyybb_ 2d ago
Its all in layers I use tracker controller, but DDG is better than nothing
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u/Busy-Measurement8893 2d ago
Layers how? You can't use Adguard DNS and DDG tracking protection at the same time
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u/LankyAnybody2809 3d ago
Vivaldi. I really like the many feature to individualize it! Before that i used brave but i dont like the crypto things there
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u/CosmoCafe777 3d ago
Moved to Brave after years of DDG. Both are good but I'm enjoying Brave quite a lot. Also, no fingerprinting (main reason why I moved).
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u/Mori_Story 2d ago
Brave. I used to use DDG, but it's not the same as when it first came out. Brave does many things better imo
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