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I guess Safari is the only major browser left that is just a browser. Google is an ad company. Microsoft is an ad company. Mozilla is an ad company. Brave is a

I guess Safari is the only major browser left that is just a browser. Google is an ad company. Microsoft is an ad company. Mozilla is an ad company. Brave is a crypto company. And these next wave of browsers are all going to be infested with AI, I suppose. Apple sells phones.

autoexec 1y ago
Apple takes huge amounts of cash in exchange for making a search engine their default and they go out of their way to stop users from removing search engines or adding their own. Those apple sanctioned search engines are effectively paid ads, and apple users end up getting sold to those other ad companies with no option to use anyone else as their default. The last good browser is Lynx
- cout 1y ago
  Why lynx and not w3m or links?
  - autoexec 1y ago
    Are those still active? Elinks is I think. I'll have to grab the latest version of w3m
    - flushedpancake 1y ago
      w3m hasn't been updated since 2023, and the author hasn't even had any activity on GitHub since July of that year, either, it seems - which given he's had at least 3 contributions a year since 2010 and then just suddenly dropped off the face of the earth, is pretty concerning to say the least.
      - rkta 1y ago
        There is an maintained (by me) fork at https://w3m-pager.org https://w3m-pager.org
- flushedpancake 1y ago
  SeaMonkey would be good if it weren't for modern websites being well, modern websites, and both Mozilla, with their decision to cut SeaMonkey off most of their infrastructure... and later on PaleMoon with its endless barrage of drama and pandering-but-actually-not to the 'uwu windows xp!!11!1! le fruitger aro y2k' crowd... pretty much screwing them over into irrelevance.
nickthegreek 1y ago
Safari wont let you easily set kagi as default search. Seems like something a major browser should allow.
- The_Rob 1y ago
  The Kagi Search extension works perfectly well.
baal80spam 1y ago
> Brave is a crypto company Then it's doing an awful job because it allows the user to disable everything related to crypto in 3 clicks, to never see it again.
- LeoPanthera 1y ago
  Do they have a browser without a crypto wallet in it? Brave is a crypto company.

autoexec 1y ago

Apple takes huge amounts of cash in exchange for making a search engine their default and they go out of their way to stop users from removing search engines or adding their own. Those apple sanctioned search engines are effectively paid ads, and apple users end up getting sold to those other ad companies with no option to use anyone else as their default. The last good browser is Lynx

cout 1y ago
Why lynx and not w3m or links?
- autoexec 1y ago
  Are those still active? Elinks is I think. I'll have to grab the latest version of w3m
  - flushedpancake 1y ago
    w3m hasn't been updated since 2023, and the author hasn't even had any activity on GitHub since July of that year, either, it seems - which given he's had at least 3 contributions a year since 2010 and then just suddenly dropped off the face of the earth, is pretty concerning to say the least.
    - rkta 1y ago
      There is an maintained (by me) fork at https://w3m-pager.org https://w3m-pager.org
flushedpancake 1y ago
SeaMonkey would be good if it weren't for modern websites being well, modern websites, and both Mozilla, with their decision to cut SeaMonkey off most of their infrastructure... and later on PaleMoon with its endless barrage of drama and pandering-but-actually-not to the 'uwu windows xp!!11!1! le fruitger aro y2k' crowd... pretty much screwing them over into irrelevance.

nickthegreek 1y ago

Safari wont let you easily set kagi as default search. Seems like something a major browser should allow.

The_Rob 1y ago
The Kagi Search extension works perfectly well.

baal80spam 1y ago

> Brave is a crypto company Then it's doing an awful job because it allows the user to disable everything related to crypto in 3 clicks, to never see it again.

LeoPanthera 1y ago
Do they have a browser without a crypto wallet in it? Brave is a crypto company.