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> The app store policies you state are no longer in force, eg: - Chrome, Opera, and Firebox on iOS On iOS, any "third-party" browser is just a wrapper around
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> The app store policies you state are no longer in force, eg: - Chrome, Opera, and Firebox on iOS
On iOS, any "third-party" browser is just a wrapper around Apple's rendering engine.
- KGIII 9y agoOpera gets around this by doing the rendering on their server and pushing the results to the app. This also enables them to do things like a VPN without additional software and image/page compression being done server-side, instead of using the Safari engine (blink or webkit?). At least that is now it was very recently. As in, within the past year. I'm not sure if it has changed since. In May, they announced they were slowing development down. I haven't followed up with that.
- pgeorgi 9y agoWhile commendable that Opera achieved this (although Opera Mini isn't exactly new), it's still a gross hack. And when it comes to privacy, moving the outer half (network, rendering, input handling) of your browser to the cloud is a disaster.