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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 crypto company. And these next wave of browsers are all going to be infested with AI, I suppose. Apple sells phones.

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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

Why lynx and not w3m or links?

Are those still active? Elinks is I think. I'll have to grab the latest version of w3m

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.

There is an maintained (by me) fork at https://w3m-pager.org

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.

> 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.

Do they have a browser without a crypto wallet in it?

Brave is a crypto company.

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

The Kagi Search extension works perfectly well.

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