Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside

Google Play: "No data shared with third parties", "No data collected", "Zero data collection & sharing"

Privacy Policy: "we do process app launch information, which is used to determine if the software can run properly. This service is provided by the third-party service provider Google Analytics for Firebase."

I wish you all the best, the more competition the better, but you really shouldn't advertise zero data collection & sharing when it simply isn't true.

Orion is built on Webkit, has a focus on privacy, built in ad blocking, and runs on macOS and iOS. It also has a lot of other interesting features baked in, although the last time I tried it I ran across a couple of glitches too (to be fair, it's in beta and under active development). Another point of favour of Orion is the Kagi team is clear it's strictly funded by users and there's an "Orion+" thing where you can subscribe and get access to RC builds.

It doesn't seem to be clearly stated, but I think Quetta is built on Chrome? I'm not thrilled with the ongoing march of Chrome as the universal core of every nominally independent browser. And they also seem to be a bit cagey about what their monetisation plans are, which might be an oversight but is a little concerning.

What a shame.

> The resource at “https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/g/collect?[truncated]” was blocked because content blocking is enabled.

(also their account identifier is "11l1l1l1l1", an attempt to anonymize their own advertising account? Seems legit)

> Request to access cookie or storage on “https://analytics.google.com/g/collect?[truncated]” was blocked because it came from a tracker and content blocking is enabled.

Plus hits to Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Framer's events API logging page views...

I get that this stuff is "standard", but you can't say "privacy-first" and then track every visitor to your site with like 3-4 different analytics platforms.