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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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta
I 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 u…
It is not new. It is going on since some years. A lot of companies (hello Microsoft) say that they care about your privacy, while collecting every piece of it.
People 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…
What is so wrong with product managers writing this lies? Do they know that there's an important thing called trust exists? Do they care a bit about its meaning? What a shame.
If it works for politicians and journalists, why wouldn't work also for product managers ? /s
Homepage: "Zero data collection. Quetta does not collect, store or share any data. Your data always belongs to you." Google Play: "No data shared with third parties", "No data collected", "Zero data collection & sharing" Privacy Policy: "we do process app launch information, which is used to determine if the software can run properly. This service is provided by the third-party service provider Google Analytics for F…
Damn 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.
Looked at the Compare Chart. They just placed a few things like "Data Vault" or "Private Downloads" without any explanation what are those. Also they are so inaccurate. Like saying that Phones cannot play youtube videos in background. Well, you can just install an app, and it will be able to do that. Adblocking is not available for Safari, Chrome or Firefox? You don't need to be an IT person to figure out how to enab…
And that's such an odd thing to pin on the browser, too. Google intentionally makes it difficult to play YouTube videos in the background; that's a perk they reserve for paying YouTube Premium users.
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta
As another Pakistani, I don't understand the need for a protest... Let the names be used.
Anyway, perhaps the devs are Pakistani ;-)
seeing all the comment in this thread and confirming them on the website, this browser is not quite there yet
Sticking with a hardened firefox
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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 u…
> Is “privacy” the new buzzword? It is not new. It is going on since some years. A lot of companies (hello Microsoft) say that they care about your privacy, while collecting every piece of it.
Also when it comes to privacy there's a thin line between collecting data and selling it to partners.