I'm switching from Safari+Brave to Orion, a privacy-centric web browser from Kagi 🔒
Orion feels like a native Apple browser—it's built on Webkit, syncs tabs/groups across devices, AND supports Chrome and Firefox extensions 🤯
browser.kagi.com
Orion offers built-in anti-tracking and ad-blocking technology 🚫
It's also a zero-telemetry browser, meaning no browsing data leaves your browser.
We gotta take privacy seriously 👌🏻
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 😅
It even migrated my Safari tabs 💯
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 🦁
twitter.com/KeenanPayne_/status/1524103421845925888
But Safari just isn't good—it's annoyingly buggy for how many resources Apple could afford to allocate towards building something great 🤦🏻♂️
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 🙅🏻♂️
kagi.com
Why pay for a search engine, you ask?
Because it creates an incentive structure for search engines *not* to sell your data 🔁
Incentive structures (along with oversight and regulation) must be in place for personal privacy to "make sense" for online businesses.
Money talks 💰
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 🏎
blog.kagi.com/kagi-features
So I'm switching from Brave Search+Google to Kagi.
Two days in—so 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 💁🏻
I enjoyed this article from @shortformernie on @readtedium about Orion 👍
(Tedium is a dope website with great content and a fun vibe, btw—just 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 🙏🏻
You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: typefully.com/KeenanPayne_/4JP6d2Z