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idiotsecantlast Tuesday at 4:56 PM3 repliesview on HN

I'm excited about what Kagi is doing:

https://orionbrowser.com/

I have no illusions that they will turn into google the first chance they get, all companies do. But for now they seem pretty good.


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rrradicallast Tuesday at 5:31 PM

I tried Orion about a year ago. I tried using the profile sandboxing. Logging into my google account in one profile also logged me in in another profile.

I can definitely excuse some bugs (there were crashes for example that I didn’t overly mind; I understand I was using prerelease software). But something like account containers should be built fundamentally to disallow any data sharing. If data sharing is a bug, and not fundamentally disallowed by the architecture, then it’s going to happen again later.

So for that reason I’m not bullish on orion.

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wyrelast Tuesday at 5:49 PM

Google is what it is because of advertising. Kagi's whole raison d'etre is to have a search engine without advertising.

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baggachipzlast Tuesday at 5:47 PM

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Orion has matured as a browser and just hit 1.0. It's mac- and ios-only for now, but linux and windows ports are in the works. It has ad-blocking out of the box and has zero telemetry. I use it every day.

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