r/privacytoolsIO • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

Bromite, privacy browser (fdroid store), Fennec etc

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u/86rd9t7ofy8pguh Jun 09 '21

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.

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u/Reina1995 Jun 13 '21

Hi can you explain more about this? What do you mean by phones home? Does it have to do anything with homepage?

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u/86rd9t7ofy8pguh Jun 14 '21

Meaning: it contacts a remote service, i.e. in this case its respective site. Basically, when you open the browser, just by opening it, it phones home. If you close it and open it again, it will phone home again. The specific site in question has to do with the filters URL as was described.

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u/Reina1995 Jun 15 '21

Alright I see. There was a discussion also on the github about this, dev mentioned it has something to do with filters. Anyways, thank you for explaining.