Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux

Post by erics118 » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:35 PM UTC

brightball wrote: post #60

Mossy9 wrote: post #7

I've been loving Kagi search and am really looking forward to Orion being available outside Apple land. You can join the email list here: https://kagi.com/changelog#6479 I'm a bit worried that Kagi might be over-extending here. Instead of focusing and capitalizing on search, they're expanding to the difficult business of browsers. I'm always hesitant when companies try to do everything everywhere all at once, since t…

My guess is that they realize the opportunity created by Mozilla’s sudden change in privacy terms.

Post by erics118 » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:39 PM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #9

Primary source: - "We're thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser for Linux has officially started!" - "Register here to receive news and early access opportunities throughout the development year: https://forms.kagi.com/?q=orion_linux_news " https://bsky.app/profile/kagi.com/post/3ljqsgjmkpk2n (I interpret that to mean there's a closed beta?)

Post by timbit42 » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

palata wrote: post #134

9283409232 wrote: post #115

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> Can you explain why? From privacy and free speech perspectives aren’t US services now better? In regards to privacy, the country is increasingly trying to pass age verification bills as a way to backdoor more surveillance into law while a billionaire is running around slurping up everyone's private data. In regards to free speech, the President sues journalist he doesn't agree with, passed an executive order to tar…

I wonder if companies will try to move away from services like Google Suite or Microsoft Teams or Slack. Because it essentially means that the US can read all the internal communications. That's a big security problem, especially now that the US have become... unstable.

Post by 9283409232 » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 3:09 PM UTC

Pooge wrote: post #189

9283409232 wrote: post #188

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For people in poverty, 8% is the difference between getting that extra carton of eggs or not getting it. For rich people, it doesn't matter. It's not that VAT doesn't tax rich people it's that it taxes poor people a lot harder.

I completely get your point. What would you suggest, then?

Post by deng » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 3:43 PM UTC

wazdra wrote: post #194

deng wrote: post #187

I'm probably not the only one who got an email from "Brandon Saltalamacchia" with We're giving you a full 30-day trial of Kagi Professional because we know you'll love it. Click "here" to activate your trial, no strings attached. Well, clicked on it, saw that OF COURSE it'll convert to a normal subscription after the trial, which I usually wouldn't have a big problem with, but this is clearly a string that is very mu…

A few weeks ago, I saw a blog post here about their new billing policy[1]: if you don't use Kagi during a month, they'll pause your subscription. Personally, because of this one feature of their subscription, I don't feel too bad about such "trial schemes". I'm not affiliated with Kagi, nor am I a paid customer. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944371