cromite

Cloudflare is known to use fingerprinting to detect scrapers For example, they use JA3 fingerprints and match them against the UA to block stuff like cURL while allowing OkHttp (Android clients) - but this can be easily be spoofed with packages such as CycleTLS [1]. I don't want to defend them, because they gate away a good chunk of the internet with their "bot protection", but unless you do PoW (which is also ecologically a nightmare), probably fingerprinting is the way to go - completely destroying the privacy of everyone involved. Cromite, a privacy conscious fork of Chromium for Android, has constantly issues with CloudFlare Turnstile [2] because they (Cloudflare) try to fingerprint it in multiple ways in order to pass the challenge. The only way to get it to work would be to join the CloudFlare Browser Developer program - which requi

For anyone looking for Android alternative: Cromite - Chromium, MV2 extensions, good new tab page with 4x4 shortcuts (2x4 pinnable) with direct access to bookmarks https://github.com/uazo/cromite/releases Ultimatum - Chromium, MV2 extensions, not so good new tab page similar to original Chrome with only like 4 shortcuts without swiping, limitec customization, no password manager AFAIR https://github.com/gonzazoid/Ultimatum/releases Helium - Chromium, only MV3 extensions, built in browser from Graphene https://github.com/jqssun/android-helium-browser/releases Elixir - Chromium, only MV3, tabbed interface suitable for tablets https://github.com/SF-FLAM/ElixirBrowser/releases Former Kiwi Browser, then for about year IceRaven (Firefox) user up until recently when they fckd up already bad illogical UI and made it even worse, which was the last

TL;DR: They forked Chromium to avoid being detected as bots because of the automation Unfortunately this will probably just trigger a cat and mouse game - but I'm curious to see where that ends. Currently, it's already painful that some companies such as CloudFlare are relying on privacy invasive features [1] to fight bots and spammers (but I totally understand their reasons). Maybe Proof of Work is the only solution, but it's environmentally bad and stupid. [1]: https://github.com/uazo/cromite/issues/2365

Cromite[0] is the best on Android, it's a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Cromite has a desktop build, but it's a bit more experimental than the mobile build, so you can use Ungoogled Chromium[1] instead. Ungoogled is also a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Check the beta flags to enable some more interesting features like getClientRect anti-fingerprinting measures (unfortunately breaks some React-based sites that go into infinite re-render loop). Both of these browsers selectively include patches from Brave, but they are community-oriented builds so imo more trustworthy than Brave, which continues to package various shady anti-features and always will because it's backed by a for-profit company. LibreWolf[2] is the nicest Firefox-based one for desktop, I think. It's pretty hardcore, thou

Help starving lone devs keep up important projects. The big fish are Ublock Origin and AdBlock Plus, as well as YT front ends like yt-dl, Invidious and Newpipe, but by favorite project is https://github.com/uazo/cromite Bromite already almost died before uazo took over. I think YouTube is eventually going to assert control through Chrome, and the community is going to be caught flat footed with everyone still relying on Chrome extensions. The entire adblock industry feels like https://xkcd.com/2347/

Cromite: https://github.com/uazo/cromite

Yes, see https://github.com/uazo/cromite But the history of minimalistic Chromium forks is kinda sad, as they seem to get little attention and maintaining them requires a ton of work. They tend to burn out, like the dev of Bromite did.

> uBO works best on Firefox. Those looking for performant adblocking in Chrome should also check out Cromite: https://github.com/uazo/cromite Its a resumption of Bromite for Android/Windows, hence the adblocking and tracking protection is far less limited since its native, not an extension. Of course, YMMV with lone Chromium fork devs.

Bromite is at this point abandonware, try Cromite instead https://github.com/uazo/cromite

Cromite-specific features: https://github.com/uazo/cromite#cromite-specific-features