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Re: Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

#41

Is there an about page I'm missing? Or somewhere to see pricing info, or... anything that's not the actual app? (Regardless, it's cool, and does in fact seem to work pretty well)

Here you go! https://browse.cloudtabs.net/about-everything

Folks the servers are all running at 100% load right now.

If you like you can check back later, or if you want to be reminded you may leave your email address in this Google Form and we'll send you a reminder when it quiets down a bit!

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Re: Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

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Cloudflare acquired a startup from Seattle that took this idea to its logical conclusion: streaming the DOM itself from the remote browser to provide full browser isolation without compromising rendering quality or speed. It would be nice if such a thing existed as open source, as it’s now buried in their security suite never to see the light of day for most of us.

Re: Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

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post #44

Cloudflare acquired a startup from Seattle that took this idea to its logical conclusion: streaming the DOM itself from the remote browser to provide full browser isolation without compromising rendering quality or speed. It would be nice if such a thing existed as open source, as it’s now buried in their security suite never to see the light of day for most of us.

Is that right? Could be a recent acquire if it's DOM mirroring.

I heard CF acquired S2 a few years ago, and what S2 did is they created a WebAssembly binary that composited the browser SKIA draw instructions on the client, and streamed the SKIA draw instructions from the server. Not without its issues, but certainly useful.

What we do is just stream pixels to the client. Yes it's expensive in terms of bandwidth, relatively. But the advantage is simplicity. And with a close server and bandwidth trending faster and cheaper, with the increasing drive to video consumption across media, I don't see bandwidth as an issue.

If you're interested, our code is on GitHub: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox

If MailChannels is interested in integrating safe attachment / link opening, we could probably figure something out.

Re: Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

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post #48

This is how websites might be built in the future with the goal of making ad blocking / tracking protection much harder...

That's an interesting idea. Never thought of that. If the website is rendered on the server, extensions become useless! Wow, now I get the concept that many customers came to me with, but were too shy to reveal.

I always thought they were doing this kind of reverse proxy for IP protection, but now I see the bigger picture. Haha! :) Thank you for your insight.

Re: Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

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post #44

Cloudflare acquired a startup from Seattle that took this idea to its logical conclusion: streaming the DOM itself from the remote browser to provide full browser isolation without compromising rendering quality or speed. It would be nice if such a thing existed as open source, as it’s now buried in their security suite never to see the light of day for most of us.

Is that right? Could be a recent acquire if it's DOM mirroring. I heard CF acquired S2 a few years ago, and what S2 did is they created a WebAssembly binary that composited the browser SKIA draw instructions on the client, and streamed the SKIA draw instructions from the server. Not without its issues, but certainly useful. What we do is just stream pixels to the client. Yes it's expensive in terms of bandwidth, rela…

> I don't see bandwidth as an issue.

The issue is latency

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