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3.x Series Roadmap
The release of Privacy Browser 2.17 marks the end of the 2.x series (unless a serious bug is discovered that needs to be addressed). The 3.0 release will implement the long awaited tabbed browsing. Following that, all other features that can be implemented without Privacy WebView will makeup the body of the 3.x series. At…
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Privacy Browser 2.17
Privacy Browser 2.17 has been released. The app bar now scrolls off the screen when the WebView is scrolled down and reappears when the WebView is scrolled up. This was an important prerequisite in preparation for tabbed browsing, as the tab interface will take additional screen real estate that would be bothersome if it couldn’t…
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Privacy Browser 2.16
The release of Privacy Browser happened earlier than I anticipated due to a need to fix an urgent bug, introduced in 2.15, that caused SSL certificate pinning to be ignored unless navigating history using the forward/back buttons or the history list. Not all of the planned features for 2.16 had been completed when this bug…
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2018 Financial Report
Going forward, I thought it would be helpful to post a yearly financial report on the growth of Privacy Browser. Revenue Google Play: $344.09 Google AdMob: $101.57 PayPal: $39.06 Bitcoin: $24.10 Amazon: $1.37 Total Revenue: $510.19 Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Google AdMob revenue comes from the display…
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2018 Security and Privacy Canary
Backdoors During 2018, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser. During 2018, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser. Privacy During 2018, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments or organizations to weaken the privacy of Privacy Browser. During 2018, Stoutner has made 0 changes to weaken the privacy…
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Privacy Browser 2.15.1
Privacy Browser 2.15.1 has been released. It is an emergency bug fix release that resolves a crash when opening a secondary activity on some devices. Beginning with Privacy Browser 2.15, the drawer header padding is adjusted for phones with notches. The adjustment is calculated based on the height of the status bar every time the…
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GeckoView
From time to time I receive suggestions from people that I change Privacy Browser to use Mozilla’s GeckoView instead of Android’s WebView to render pages. Instead of responding to each of these communications individually, I thought it helpful to write a general post covering this subject and explaining why I am not now considering doing…
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Removal of Google’s Ad Consent Library
Privacy Browser 2.15 features the removal of Google’s Ad Consent library from the free flavor. This was added in Privacy Browser 2.10 to comply with the GDPR. It was never included in the standard flavor. The Ad Consent library performed two functions. The first of which was to determine if a user was located in…
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Privacy Browser 2.15
Privacy Browser 2.15 has been released. A bug was fixed when changing user agents using domain settings. Previously, in some circumstances, when changing user agents it would force a refresh of the current page, which would interrupt the loading of the new page. Privacy Browser now adapts the height of the drawer layouts to account…
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Privacy Browser 2.14
Privacy Browser 2.14 has been released. There are now encrypted import and export options. The password option uses standard Android tools to encrypt the file. A random salt is added to the password, which is then SHA-256 hashed and truncated. The export database is then encrypted using AES 256 GCM. Unfortunately, password encryption is not…
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