How can I download this browser on Fedora too?
Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
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Re: Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
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This is completely wrong. Malicious software has a long history of detecting monitoring so it can avoid detection. A closed-source browser with backdoors can detect Wireshark, Little Snitch, or whatever you're using to detect outgoing connections, and not connect while those programs are running. The problem is even more insidious when you're making regular expected connections to a site that the browser creator cont…
This is true of open source software too. At some point you have to trust that the software you run is not designed to act like malware, because if it is actually backdoored your life is going to be miserable regardless.
Huh? It's not true of open source software at all.
With open source software, you can read the source and verify that it doesn't have backdoors. With reproducible builds, you can verify that distributed binaries are the result of building the source code you've verified.
Honestly, if you couldn't figure out that this was going to be my response, you simply don't have the knowledge to be commenting on this topic. I didn't come up with anything I've said here myself, it's pretty basic, widely agreed-upon understanding of why open source is generally more secure. The only people who actually know the topic who "disagree" on this generally have a vested interest in some closed-source software they want to be seen as secure.
Re: Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is correct. I refuse to touch Chromium with a ten-foot pole, but there aren't really any other options on Linux. (Yes, there is LibreWolf and other forks, but I doubt any have the resources to "go it alone" should Mozilla fold or go completely turncoat.) The closest extant option is something like GNOME Web (also based on WebKit like Orion) but the lack of extension support and poor performance makes it…
WebKitGTk performance has improved a ton in the past few releases. Orion will ofc match that. Also working on WebExtensions in upstream hopefully by end of year.
Hope this work out because I really want to use it but I can't because of this.
Re: Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can detach searching from any association with your paid account: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html
Yeah but that means trusting them. I don't need to trust anyone not to share information they don't even have. They should really allow anonymous payments like mullvad does. There you're just a random number and you can pay with crypto without any addresses.
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