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Often people distinguish between "command-line interfaces" (CLI) and "text user interfaces" (TUI). So "sed" is a CLI program, while vim is a TUI program. But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs, so I don't think your parent is wrong.
> But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs [...]. It is indeed common, and (IMO) it is harmful, as TUI programs are just GUI programs in disguise. They do have two unique strengths: readily accessible over a serial console or an SSH session; and being the lowest common denominator of GUI programming. But they don't share any of the typical (desirable) qualities of CLI programs; typically, any CLI f…
There needs to be a word for these projects that are a UI layer on top of a preexisting browser engine. Calling it a "new browser" is a little confusing.
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I use kagi and had not even heard that they have their own browser. Why would why use that over one of the "big three" (FF/Chrome/Safari) with serious corporate security teams backing them? edit: Okay so it's webkit based, mac only, with built-in adblocking, which sounds nice, but honestly the idea that it can easily install extensions from both chrome and firefox sounds like a security nightmare to me. The fact that…
Why use kagi instead of the big 3? Google, Bing, Yandex? The companies with serious corporate security?
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Just downloaded FF this week and started using it as my primary browser as I start to transition from Chromium-based browsers. May I ask what you did to configure your browser that way (extensions/settings)? I like the look of it, and looking for ways to customize my setup.
uBlock Origin Sidebery QuickCut SingleFile Popup window Firefox Multi-Account Containers Copy All Tab Urls
Privacy Badger
Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials
Privacy Possum
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If you use Kagi for search, I'm assuming you've used their Orion browser [0], where you can set Kagi as default. Any reason why you didn't like it? [0] https://browser.kagi.com/
I use kagi and had not even heard that they have their own browser. Why would why use that over one of the "big three" (FF/Chrome/Safari) with serious corporate security teams backing them? edit: Okay so it's webkit based, mac only, with built-in adblocking, which sounds nice, but honestly the idea that it can easily install extensions from both chrome and firefox sounds like a security nightmare to me. The fact that…
Full text for reference: "Each request poses a security risk, no matter what information it sends, by potentially exposing your IP address and your browser fingerprint. Telemetry can also inadvertently leak personally identifiable information or corporate intelligence."
If you want fast and minimal, give Lynx a try. The original fast, minimal, privacy protected browser: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/
Lynx won't load Google Analytics scripts for sure. On the other hand your user agent string will be pretty much unique on the web. Partly because approximately no one is using Lynx and partly because Lynx leaks the versions of itself and just about every related library on your system in the UA string.
lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" -head -dump http://www.example.com/
I get the security stance, but I configure a LOT of networking hardware via WebUI (eg: Palo Alto firewalls - self-signed from the factory) and this makes it next to useless.
One can only wonder what these alternatives do when they claim to be minimal and fast and worse, private. Can there really be privacy without security?
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> instead of hating in web technologies just for the memes. Let’s nip this in the bud. The comment you’re replying to says “Everyone is complaining it is built in electron” but I’ve read every comment in this so far tiny thread and there is literally one comment complaining of it being Electron. > I didn't know Brave was an Electron app It’s not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33983708
Fwiw, I commented on this when there was only one or two comments on this, and all of them were complaining about electron.