This is super cool. Good for people with slow/older computers and also presumably reduces the surface for web based attacks
Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser
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The Whist privacy guarantee is that we've engineered our system so that no one, not even us, can see what's going on in your cloud tabs. We'll be releasing a blog post about how our system is engineered, stay tuned! Privacy is also one of the reasons we've decided on the hybrid approach. Websites with sensitive information (your bank, etc.) can be used on local, incognito, or Tor tabs, all of which are not offloaded…
That's awesome, it seems like you've thought through privacy! It'd be above and beyond, but is it possible to self-host my own cloud backend?
Potentially! We could make this happen, it probably wouldn't even be that much work. It's more of a question of whether enough people/companies would be interested in self-hosting, which is something we'll keep an eye out for
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#25Just wanted to let you know that the site takes a relatively long while to load on my Android Firefox browser.
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#26this is awesome, if I didn’t have the M1 I bet I would need this given how many tabs I always have open…
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#27How much do you plan to charge for your browser? I can't find pricing page on your site.
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#28This is super cool. Good for people with slow/older computers and also presumably reduces the surface for web based attacks
Yeah, the kind of people that need high-performance productivity apps for their jobs but can't afford to upgrade to a $1000 M1 Macbook Air but will be able to spend what I assume will be more than $10 / month indefinitely /s
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#29What kind of privacy grantees does Whist make? Having more of the browser in the could could open up new opportunities for snooping either to sell data, or by state actors. Do you have a warrant canary?
The Whist privacy guarantee is that we've engineered our system so that no one, not even us, can see what's going on in your cloud tabs. We'll be releasing a blog post about how our system is engineered, stay tuned! Privacy is also one of the reasons we've decided on the hybrid approach. Websites with sensitive information (your bank, etc.) can be used on local, incognito, or Tor tabs, all of which are not offloaded…
Will you implement a warrant canary?
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#30How much do you plan to charge for your browser? I can't find pricing page on your site.
The basic version of Whist (with limited cloud tabs usage), will be free, forever.
For full cloud tabs support, we'll be charging a subscription fee as an add-on on top of the browser. We're still figuring out exactly what the pricing tiers will be, but we expect it to be in the 10-15$ range.