Ask HN: Is there a browser I can pay for?
Can anyone recommend a browser I can pay for to prevent malicious tracking of my browsing habits? I'm curious if businesses like this exist and whether or not they can be successful.
It's now back to running (legitimately...) only on Apple's hardware (there was a Windows version in the past, but it's long gone), so you are paying for it -- it's just that the price is rolled into the up-front purchase cost of the hardware.
Apple does seem at least somewhat thinking about privacy as a differentiating feature, and Safari has some explicit anti-tracking features.
Is it the perfect solution: no. But I'm starting to think seriously about using it as my desktop browser.
My thought is it's hard to choose Safari for their privacy when I have a higher possibility to get hacked due to a new hack that Chrome quickly updated (or didn't have in the first place). I'm sure most have seen them, but referring to these [0, 1, 2].
Even more tangible -- Google warns about visiting sites sometimes, while Safari will gladly let you enter. Isn't that a huge vector?
0: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+warning+thi+site&sour...:
1: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/99020?co=GENIE.Plat...
The "Google warnings" aspect, I'm pretty ambivalent about. They probably have saved some people some trouble, but on the other hand the gatekeeping power that feature hands to Google doesn't fill be with delight.
Not open source though if that matters to you.