I'm switching from Safari+Brave to Orion, a privacy-centric web browser from Kagi ๐
Orion feels like a native Apple browserโit's built on Webkit, syncs tabs/groups across devices, AND supports Chrome and Firefox extensions ๐คฏ
browser.kagi.com
Orion offers built-in anti-tracking and ad-blocking technology ๐ซ
It's also a zero-telemetry browser, meaning no browsing data leaves your browser.
We gotta take privacy seriously ๐๐ป
Orion is still in beta, but I'm enjoying it so far!
It's not perfect, but it's *really* good. Like, shockingly good.
Do you know what else isn't perfect? Safari. Brave. And every other browser.
I encourage you to check it out. I'm a hard sell when it comes to "indie" web browsers, but I've been enjoying it for the past two days ๐
It even migrated my Safari tabs ๐ฏ
Browsers like Opera and Vivaldi never stuck with me for whatever reason, but maybe Orion will?
While I loved the Chrome/Brave ecosystems, I recently switched to Safari and Brave because of the *tight* native integration with Safari and Apple devices.
Safari syncing is great, but the dev tools suck. Brave has filled in that gap ๐ฆ
twitter.com/KeenanPayne_/status/1524103421845925888
But Safari just isn't goodโit's annoyingly buggy for how many resources Apple could afford to allocate towards building something great ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
And don't get me started on the state of web browsers for iOS...
Corporate monopolies don't produce good results.
What about Kagi, the company behind Orion?
They're a privacy-focused search engine built atop a subscription model where you pay so they DON'T sell your search data ๐
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kagi.com
Why pay for a search engine, you ask?
Because it creates an incentive structure for search engines *not* to sell your data ๐
Incentive structures (along with oversight and regulation) must be in place for personal privacy to "make sense" for online businesses.
Money talks ๐ฐ
Kagi has lots of features that make it stand out from mainstream search engines while standing strongly alongside other privacy-focused options like DuckDuckGo.
It offers ways to focus and filter search results while being zippy quick and customizable ๐
blog.kagi.com/kagi-features
So I'm switching from Brave Search+Google to Kagi.
Two days inโso far, so good!
Brave Search is buggy but generally provides good results. DuckDuckGo generally doesn't produce ideal results for me.
I frequently fall back on Google ๐๐ป
I enjoyed this article from @shortformernie on @readtedium about Orion ๐
(Tedium is a dope website with great content and a fun vibe, btwโjust look at that social image)
tedium.co/2022/01/19/orion-web-browser-macos-kagi-profile/
Kagi and Orion are led by @vladquant, a longtime tech executive and startup founder.
I love his dedication to making software that's pushing forward browser and search engine privacy ๐๐ป
You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: typefully.com/KeenanPayne_/4JP6d2Z