Phishing & Malware Protection
Hermit comes with a native built-in Ad Blocker and Malware Blocker.
- Always Up-to-date: The list of blocked domains is updated weekly, without requiring the main Hermit app to be updated.
- Native & Built-in: Unlike other browsers, no separate plugin is required, which ensures that Ad Blocking is fast and performant, and does not slow your browsing down.
- Faster Web browsing: By blocking most ads and malware, Hermit makes Web pages load much faster. No unwanted JavaScript, images, or animations.
- Save your Data Plan: By skipping downloading all the content you never asked for, you save on your data plan.
- Malware Protection: If, by chance, a suspected malware site or phishing site is relatively new and not yet blocked by our Malware Blocker, then you will see a warning about it.
Your Browsing Activity Stays Private
Absolutely zero information about your browsing activity is shared with us when these lists are downloaded to your phone.
When you visit a page, Hermit checks its address against this downloaded block list and decides whether or not to block it. Everything is done on your phone. Your browsing activity is private to you, and the sites you visit are not shared with us.
When you visit a suspected phishing site or malware site, Hermit requests a double-check to ensure that the site is still considered a risk since the last time the list was updated. At this time, partial information derived from the address of a site is used to determine whether it is malware, and may be shared with our malware protection provider. This request does not include the address of the visited site, it only contains partial information derived from the address.
Strong Privacy Policy
This is the same privacy policy used by open-source browsers such as Firefox.
- See Firefox’s Privacy Policy for Malware Protection.
- Compare with our Privacy Policy.