Not really a review more just a recommendation for those who might be interested.
Developed by the wonderful folks at Kagi Search! On IOS and Mac the app is designed off WebKit. And offers built in ad block and pretty strong telemetry block.
It also works with certain Chrome extensions.
I’ve been using it primarily on IOS. My only two gripes is the cookie clear on close doesn’t work and the logo really is just another butthole.
Certain sites freak out but I don’t want to lower the settings so it’s a compromise im ok with it.
If your on IOS might be worth checking out !
Haven’t tried the Linux version but I’m going to soon.
That logo is already giving me AI vibes. I’m sticking with floorp.
YSK, it’s not open source. It’s not even source available for that matter. They’ve promised to go open source for a while now, but not much progress has been made.
Privacy and open source are two separate things.
Privacy requires software to be open source, or at least source available. Open source does not require privacy.
Sure, but closed source means that you are accepting a corporate “pinky promise” instead of a claim that can actually be independently verified.
Corporate and closed source are two separate things.
Are you suggesting this browser made by the Kagi corporation isn’t a corporate product?
Not at all. Of course it is.
Just pointing out there are many non-corporate closed source products.
Thanks for the contribution.
What contribution? I didn’t see any.
Heavily linked things, however.
The text on this FAQ has been the same since 2022!
True but Firefox is open source and they dump a ton of ai garbage in their stuff now. And while it being open source has allowed for Librewolf it’s not in itself a magic bullet
Open source is not a magic bullet but it’s a baseline requirement for trust.
no thanks.
I tried it years ago, it looks more mature now but I’m so used to Safaris “Hide distractions” feature that I’m missing it dearly after less than an hr of trying it out :(
uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Lite (both browser extensions) have a similar feature :)
I’m not a fan, I have it installed but to me it’s not enough better than FF or Safari to use daily.
Has anyone been able to get uBO to work on their IOS app? I installed it but it doesn’t seem to really do anything.
Great to have browser that’s not using Chromium, I like having another WebKit browser in the wild that’s not Safari.
Now that SecureBlue has made Trivalent available with its selinux architecture that should be everyones go to if your on a Fedora based system.
I’d take Mullvad or Brave on Windows over this
I’d also use Safari over this for anything in Apple ecosystem
I hate brave and the people who make it
Various criticisms of the browsers you listed:
- Trivalent and Brave have a chromium base, forgivable but putting aside the chromium monopoly there are various issues with that base. It doesn’t let you easily create duplicate bookmarks, has no equivalent of about:config, and pretend I thought of a third thing because just listing two is weird.
- Brave has a built-in AI chatbot that you can’t remove AFAIK.
- Mullvad … probably better to use Noscript and Ublock Origin on Firefox ESR. It’ll get faster security updates that way.
All of your criticisms have nothing to do with privacy or security. Some of them, like what you said about mullvad, is rooted in fud. Which tells me we have different priorities when it comes to browser choice.
I will agree the brave shit is annoying but hopefully Brave Origin will fix that. Their fingerprint and tracker protection is undeniable though.
this is baller i fw it
+1. Orion is fantastic on OSX/iOS.
…It’s not ready for Linux, though. You can try it as an oddity, but give it more time in the oven.
Apparently it’s in alpha ? I’d like to try it though !
In beta, available as a Flatpak.
Seemed janky for me, but I only tried it for a few minutes.
