Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
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Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#2> 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.
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#3I'm not sure if any amount of privacy marketing can make me use a non-open source browser. Perhaps AI-powered anti annoyance filter and dark pattern removal? Firefox and Chromium aren't perfect but the amount of spying in these browsers can be audited and Firefox has some advanced anti-tracking features (resistFingerprinting). The video downloader is pretty cool though if it works well enough in practice.
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#4This seems quite similar to Firefox Focus, an app from Mozilla which also comes with adblocking built in: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/
Your thingie has some cool features and the screenshots look nice. If I was picking between the two based on that I’d give you a shot, but I’m curious about your plans.
Are y’all a for-profit company? What is your business plan?
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#5> 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.
It's up for "pre-registration".
But I'll gladly give this a shot with a sideload.
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#6Apparently my phone is incompatible. Does this browser require Android 14?
I'll be honest, I'll probably stick with an open source browser, but it's worth trying out apps like these to see how browsers could be done. Based on the screenshots, the URL bar design is intriguing and the playlist feature seems better integrated than the extension based background playback Firefox offers.
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#7The competitor features comparison is not accurate. For example, Brave does have playlist. And I Firefox has flavors with built in ad-block
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#8a fully privacy first browser needs to be open source.
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#9Looked 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 enable them.
And how about adding to the chart a few more things, things that I actually use
- Extensions support - nope
- Profiles support - nope
- Bookmarks - maybe nope - don't see them mentioning them sowewhere
- Integration between devices - nope
- Reading list - nope (I need that more than videos)
- And there is probably more.
Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
#10Privacy-first to me means that by default when I launch the proxied app and my home page is about:blank, I don’t see a single network request firing, and neither before exit.