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> Although Island’s service is built on the same Chromium engine as many popular browsers, and therefore has a familiar interface, it places a number of restric

by Gys 5y ago

> Although Island’s service is built on the same Chromium engine as many popular browsers, and therefore has a familiar interface, it places a number of restrictions on the way in which end users can interact with the web. For example, the Island browser gives security teams control over simple functionality such as copy-and-paste, screen capture and content downloads. It also places limits on the kinds of extensions that can be installed and the domains that can be visited. I think this is a great idea. I can understand enterprises do not mind paying a subscription fee per user to fully control an important piece of software. Edit: typo

enos_feedler 5y ago
Probably a better idea for school kids where it makes sense to lock down their chromebooks. But that market is much smaller than “enterprise” and Google has probably figured it out already there. This just seems like a concept for enterprise that isnt really a solution to anything
ec109685 5y ago
Those don’t seem like hard controls for Chrome or Edge to support for businesses if the market demand is there. Companies can already lock chrome down to a decent extent.
notyourwork 5y ago
Subscriptions are how you lock customers (companies) in and companies have fat wallets and are slow to migrate away.
kbelder 5y ago
This sounds like the type of thing IT would push on us, causing great inconvenience until we found a way to work around it and install the browsers, extensions, and functionality we really need.
asojfdowgh 5y ago
Chrome has policies for all of that except copy/paste, which is probably more suited to a OS policy https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/ https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/
- emerongi 5y ago
  Firefox as well.
ignoramous 5y ago
Cloudflare is on this as well, and from the demos, their "browser isolation" tech built atop Chromium (which functions more like a L7 firewall) works like magic: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-clientless-web-isolation-beta/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-clientless-web-isola...

by Gys 5y ago

enos_feedler 5y ago

Probably a better idea for school kids where it makes sense to lock down their chromebooks. But that market is much smaller than “enterprise” and Google has probably figured it out already there. This just seems like a concept for enterprise that isnt really a solution to anything

ec109685 5y ago

Those don’t seem like hard controls for Chrome or Edge to support for businesses if the market demand is there. Companies can already lock chrome down to a decent extent.

notyourwork 5y ago

Subscriptions are how you lock customers (companies) in and companies have fat wallets and are slow to migrate away.

kbelder 5y ago

This sounds like the type of thing IT would push on us, causing great inconvenience until we found a way to work around it and install the browsers, extensions, and functionality we really need.

asojfdowgh 5y ago

Chrome has policies for all of that except copy/paste, which is probably more suited to a OS policy https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/ https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/

emerongi 5y ago
Firefox as well.

ignoramous 5y ago

Cloudflare is on this as well, and from the demos, their "browser isolation" tech built atop Chromium (which functions more like a L7 firewall) works like magic: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-clientless-web-isolation-beta/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-clientless-web-isola...