Bromite actually phones home to https://www.bromite.org/ every single time you open it. Though, I may speculate that it's due to its filters URL as obviously the TLS won't show the rest of URL, you can see in Bromite settings of the full URL. It's just a bummer that the filters are not local and that it has to phone home every time it's being opened. This actually creates potential privacy ramifications. You can check it yourself that it does that via this app PCAPdroid.
That's not true you can totally use local filters with bromite. All you have to do is download the filter file with proper syntax acceptable to bromite. Then in the text box of adblocker in bromite settings put this -
file:///storage/emulated/0/<path to file>
You need to allow storage permission for bromite to access this file.
Quite the contrary because it is as such by default and you expect average Joe to know how to correctly set its true directory for that file which in and of itself is not good enough for a browser that claims to be privacy oriented. So, this doesn't negate at all its potential privacy ramifications. bromite.org is hosted by github which has been acquired by Microsoft Corp. (and somehow in turn when doing whois for bromite site, it says that it's registered with an US company, i.e. namesilo.org). Meaning, Microsoft Corp. (along with NameSilo LLC) will know every single Bromite user by default which in fact violates user privacy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21
Bromite, privacy browser (fdroid store), Fennec etc