As a Pakistani, I protest naming of this software (lol)
Quetta (/ˈkwɛtə/; Urdu: کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa, [ˈkweːʈə] ⓘ; Pashto: کوټه; Balochi: کویٹہ) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
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#22What are they selling, how is this financed? Seems like something Brave and Firefox can both do, you probably just need to install some extensions for the "missing" features. I do not see anything revolutionary here. If you do not use Tor or at least a VPN and refuse to login to anything you are never really private to the web and this Browser will not change that. What is "Vault" and what are "Private downloads" the…
Search engine sponsorships or web3 probably
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#23I clicked, read "Quetta does not collect, store or share any data." , but then: > The resource at “ https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/g/collect?[truncated]” was blocked because content blocking is enabled. (also their account identifier is "11l1l1l1l1", an attempt to anonymize their own advertising account? Seems legit) > Request to access cookie or storage on “ https://analytics.google.com/g/collect?[truncated]” was b…
Exactly. Analytics isn’t even intrinsically bad. There are so many privacy-friendly analytics tools today (Fathom, Plausible, etc), and lots of them can even be self hosted.
Saying you don’t collect data, then using Google for data collection is very disingenuous.
Is “privacy” the new buzzword? Seems like with “AI” before it, privacy is being thrown around by startups as a way to pad landing pages and attract naive users.
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#24People interested in this might also be interested in Orion from the Kagi team: https://kagi.com/orion/ Orion is built on Webkit, has a focus on privacy, built in ad blocking, and runs on macOS and iOS. It also has a lot of other interesting features baked in, although the last time I tried it I ran across a couple of glitches too (to be fair, it's in beta and under active development). Another point of favour of Ori…
Wish Kagi just focused on Search. I don't see how building both a search engine and a browser is possible with a startup team. I tried Orion a lot of times but there's still too many bugs for me to switch over from Arc.
I, too, found it buggy, but I don’t agree that they should only focus on search. Chrome is proof of how important a search engine is to a browser, and vice versa.
We should welcome browser competition to fight against Google’s dominance, and if there’s a company I trust to have my best interests in mind for this job it’s Kagi.
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#25FYI, the comparison table incorrectly claims Firefox lacks "Save as PDF" support. On Android it's under the share menu.
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#26Damn it folks. Why is this so hard.
Step 1: Install Firefox
Step 2: Install ublock origin
that's it.
No need for all these stupid extra browsers with their false claims of absolute privacy.
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#27> Download videos with a single tap. > Screenshot showing video downloading from youtube.com This app is on the play store. Unfortunately, it won't be for long given Google's opinion of YT downloaders. Firefox's YT background play was killed by this.
> Firefox's YT background play was killed by this.
Do you know of a link to any more details about that?
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#28As a Pakistani, I protest naming of this software (lol) Quetta (/ˈkwɛtə/; Urdu: کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa, [ˈkweːʈə] ⓘ; Pashto: کوټه; Balochi: کویٹہ) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta
As another Pakistani, I don't understand the need for a protest... Let the names be used.
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#29Damn it folks. Why is this so hard. Step 1: Install Firefox Step 2: Install ublock origin that's it. No need for all these stupid extra browsers with their false claims of absolute privacy.
That’s not it… need to set about ten settings after that: turning off telemetry, google search+keystroke spying, pocket, home page, corporate links, etc.
All before connecting to the network.
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#30Damn it folks. Why is this so hard. Step 1: Install Firefox Step 2: Install ublock origin that's it. No need for all these stupid extra browsers with their false claims of absolute privacy.
Or just LibreWolf and call it a day