I saw a few VPN extensions on Mozilla’s addon store but they require full access and is closed source . Foxy proxy seems open source and doesn’t seem to be collecting any data for themselves and I’m hopping that combined with https sites only give the proxies which sites im visiting even if they wanted to sell me out CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG THO . and i don’t trust my isp much so it doesn’t matter to me if they are selling that only but those vpn extensions will have acess to everything on every site . so yea feel free to correct me on anything and reccomend any .

edit : I don’t want recommendations for vpn or any other way like changing dns etc . I just want to change the location on only firefox for android to get past some censorship and geo blocking . if you have any other way to achieve that or better extension than froxy proxy feel free to recommend .

edit : is there anyway to configure proxies on android firefox without using an extension ? i have access to about:config as i use fennec from fdroid .

  • RyeMan@lemmy.world
    2·
    25 days ago

    Unfortunately container tabs are not yet supported for Android Firefox. FoxyProxy is by no means malicious, it certainly has good intentions and for the most part it does what it says it does. The problem is that due to many fundamental design choices it is too easy for information to leak. Plus the URL regex matching can be very finicky to work with. I used FoxyProxy for years but gave up on it after a while since I could never get a consistent and reliable experience out of it.

    At this point I just alter the proxy settings in Android ff directly - no extension. Unfortunately ff profiles are also not supported on Android yet so if you don’t want your main browser to always be attached to a proxy you can install other releases of ff such as Nightly and just configure that with proxy settings. If I am recalling correctly, you can also configure ff to apply proxy to either normal or private browsing too.

    • cleverusername24@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      yes i have fennec fdroid which gives me acess to about:config . Have you got any guides with the process to set up a proxy through there ? Will this let the proxy server know everything that you do or is https still honored ?

      • RyeMan@lemmy.world
        2·
        24 days ago

        Your proxy settings will depend on your provider but if you search for network.proxy you’ll see all the setting you need in there. You’ll connect either through http (ip+port) or socks. Socks adds an additional layer of authentication which is generally preferred but likely won’t be offered by free options.

        Yes, your proxy service will absolutely see what sites you are visiting. None of these suggestions will protect you from a malicious proxy service. Https is still honored assuming the end point is using a valid cert and your proxy has not tampered with it in any way. If the cert gets altered you’ll get a warning from your browser, you then have to trust yourself to know when to back out.