Comment by lordhexd
2 days ago
Not too much speculation needed as to why: data collection which is then used to enhance both their Search and Assistant products + they can easily start pushing their search and assistant through the platform once adoption is high enough and people who are used to Orion will more easily be convinced to just fork up a little money for continued or slightly improved features/access
It's more likely it has to do with all the work they're doing to getting the WebExtension API to work with WebKit which is a main selling feature for the MacOS version - using firefox and chrome extensions in a webkit-powered browser.
And esp for the iOS version, where there are not many options for using extensions in other browsers. The only browser there that can use UBO, afaik. In MacOS it is a bit too buggy for me for daily use, ymmv.
Orion does not collect telemetry data [0].
[0] https://orionbrowser.com/privacy
How do you know that? Source is closed. Is a network analyzer enough to determine?
People usually don't compile their browsers from source anyway. And of course, technically, a program can check whether monitoring tools are running and adapt its behaviour accordingly, but this is malware territory and it makes no sense for any reputable browser. Also, technically, one can do that on router level anyway and not have this issue. So yes, I would say that analyzing the network is enough.
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Because their entire continued existence depends on maintaining a reputation of preserving privacy?
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> Source is closed. Is a network analyzer enough to determine? Or do a search and give arguments why it's not enough ?
What about their online installers, without which you can't install it?
As a data point, the Orion Alpha is a Flatpak. Not sure about the telemetry status with that.
That is in fact some pretty wild speculation.