update!: Add Cromite to Mobile Browsers

[austinhuang0131]

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Changes proposed in this PR:

• add Cromite back. Logo (svg) is my own reproduction of the official logo (which is in png).

• [x] I have disclosed any relevant conflicts of interest in my post. (none other than being a user of it)
• [x] I agree to grant Privacy Guides a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable license with the right to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to reproduce, modify, display, perform, relicense, and distribute my contribution as part of this project.
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Criteria:

Must support automatic updates.

yes

Must receive engine updates in 0-1 days from upstream release.

0-1 days is a bit too strict for a one-person project. DivestOS claims it's "within a week," my personal observation is usually 1 day, occasionally up to 3. Maybe we can ask the maintainer for this

Any changes required to make the browser more privacy-respecting should not negatively impact user experience.

doesn't appear to

Android browsers must use the Chromium engine.

yes

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[dngray]

Discussion thread for this https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cromite-bromite-fork/13274

[austinhuang0131]

or should we ask the dev about their release schedule? since referring to the chromium release blog is not the best idea since not every version is an exact match

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[uazo]

Sorry to intrude. first of all, thank you for taking cromite into consideration, that pleases me.

but, if it is possible, i would ask you to be patient with your publication, until issue https://github.com/uazo/cromite/issues/710 is resolved. to date I have some doubts about the legality of the distribution of my executables, regarding the support of aac and h264, due to the lack of a licence that it will not be possible for me to purchase it due to the high costs Although I am not aware of how many installations my browser has, under 100,000 I can be comfortable, but a higher spread that might happen after your change. could bring me legal problems.

thank you for your consideration. I remain at your disposal if you have any questions.

another thing, and please excuse me, I don't think those recommendations are good as default for cromite, but I don't want to sound cheeky and I might be wrong after all.

[uazo]

until issue https://github.com/uazo/cromite/issues/710 is resolved.

thanks for your patience, i'll let you know that i've solved at least for windows and android. linux is a bit more complex and for now it's a todo.

[uazo]

if you want I can tell you what I think the defaults should be, actually I plan to include them when I try to put cromite on the google store, which I will only do after I have written the privacy policy (which are not easy to write because, it is true, unlike other browsers, I do not send myself any data, ever, but the browser collects a lot locally).

[austinhuang0131]

the recommendations were copied from the ones used for Bromite which appears to be written some time (2+ years) ago

personally i don't really agree with them either but eh

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[uazo]

Cromite won’t 7 be added until its maintainer allows us to.

I apologise, really! that point has been closed, the issue is only open for the linux version. I'm sorry I didn't tell you @jonaharagon

[jonaharagon]

@uazo I wasn't sure if you wanted to wait until that was resolved for Linux as well, or if you didn't want us to share it until it was on mainstream platforms like Google Play.

But if you're happy with it then I'm happy with it 👍

[uazo]

I wasn't sure if you wanted to wait until that was resolved for Linux as well,

unfortunately I still don't know how to solve it, that's the problem. the only way is to force the user to recompile ffmpeg, but that's a solution I don't like.

or if you didn't want us to share it until it was on mainstream platforms like Google Play.

no, really, I forgot, sorry.

[austinhuang0131]

i still think the recommended measures should be reviewed (I just copied whatever's written for Bromite before), particularly regarding whether one should always use incognito

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[uazo]

i still think the recommended measures should be reviewed

I agree, is one of the points I would like to address.

particularly regarding whether one should always use incognito

do you mean the always incognito? has its merits, but I don't think it is suitable for the average user, for whom the 'open external links in incognito' option is more suitable. I think in particular that the default automatic wipe of data at start-up should be by default, and that it is essential to add the option to clean tabs links at startup, which is not there. regarding the latter i would like to include some other opensource project in cromite as a java library... 4 years from bromite were not enough :) but there is time, slowly I will do it all!