Privacy Browser Android

Please file a separate bug report for each subject.

By choice, Privacy Browser only detects the official Orbot and I2P apps. I think it is highly unlikely I would try to detect all the many third-party solutions. That is what the custom entry is for. But if you would like to discuss it further I suggest you create a separate issue or do a search for one of the existing places on Redmine where it has been discussed, like #895, and add your comments there.

Regarding the defaulting to http:// instead of https://, for security and privacy reasons, Privacy Browser will always default to https://. If a user needs or wants http://, they should always have to type it manually as a reminder that it is not secure. Tor users like to assert that https:// isn't needed with .onion addresses because the encryption is handled by the Tor protocol. But Tor has a long history of being hacked and having problems with their protocols and the implementations thereof, so I don't trust that assertion. I would much rather trust https:// encryption that terminates in the browser than solely rely on Tor's encryption.

Regarding Privacy Browser searching instead of loading a URL when using I2P, I cannot replicate that problem. Can you please post an example URL that causes the problem for you?

Before doing so, you might consider reading over #938 first, to make sure that you are actually entering a URL instead of something that is not a URL.

Privacy Browser uses Android's Patterns.WEB_URL to check for text that is not a URL to see if it is similar enough to a URL to be modified to become a URL instead of performing a search.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Patterns#WEB_URL

`zzz.i2p` is, of course, not a URL because it does not contain a scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

It looks like Android's Patterns.WEB_URL isn't smart enough to determine that partial URLs that end in `i2p` could be converted to a URL if prepended by a scheme.

I have created an upstream bug asking Google to fix the problem.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/266246557