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[–] 75 points 7 months ago (12 children)

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.

https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#oss

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  • [+] -20 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Privacy and open source are two separate things.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Sure, but closed source means that you are accepting a corporate "pinky promise" instead of a claim that can actually be independently verified.

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  • [+] -14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Corporate and closed source are two separate things.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Are you suggesting this browser made by the Kagi corporation isn't a corporate product?

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  • [+] -8 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Not at all. Of course it is.

    Just pointing out there are many non-corporate closed source products.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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 :(

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I’m not a fan, I have it installed but to me it’s not enough better than FF or Safari to use daily.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    That logo is already giving me AI vibes. I'm sticking with floorp.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    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.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    +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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Apparently it’s in alpha ? I’d like to try it though !

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    In beta, available as a Flatpak.

    Seemed janky for me, but I only tried it for a few minutes.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Where can you download it from? Can't find it on their website or flathub.

    Edit: nvm - "The alpha version of Orion for Linux is currently only available to Orion+ supporters and can be downloaded from the Billing Dashboard under the Orion browser section." $5/month for the privilege to be an alpha tester, ok.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Extensions are unreliable especially Dark Reader on iOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Great to have browser that’s not using Chromium, I like having another WebKit browser in the wild that’s not Safari.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    this is baller i fw it

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