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The permissions are the Chromium ones. There is literally no ads nor external SDK or ad-tech or whatever you are referring to (before there was AdMob, but it d

by _njyk 3y ago

The permissions are the Chromium ones. There is literally no ads nor external SDK or ad-tech or whatever you are referring to (before there was AdMob, but it didn't make much money anyway). https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.kiwibrowser.browser/latest/ https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.kiwibro... The way Kiwi makes money is by partnering with Bing / Yahoo. You launch the browser, it starts with Bing or Yahoo (depending on your country), and... that's it. Bing then pays back a revenue-share to the browser each time the user uses the search engine. The same way that DuckDuckGo gets a revenue-share from Yahoo and Bing too when you use DuckDuckGo. So, if you prefer Firefox and Google, or Kiwi and Bing, this is just a matter of choice.

Springtime 3y ago
I've never tried Kiwi Browser but had similarly come across it while searching. The dev themselves refers to them as ads[1] (2022), though prior to being accepted properly into Bing's referral program Kiwi redirected all search queries through their own servers[2][3] (2021) (the original Kiwi repo's issues tab has been deleted since). Tbf the dev always sounds reasonable in their responses but was a little off-putting initially so I kinda understand the GP's impression. [1] https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/91#issuecomment-1067076965 https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/91#issuecomme... [2] https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35 https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35 [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20210605191305/https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src/issues/352 https://web.archive.org/web/20210605191305/https://github.co...
- mardifoufs 3y ago
  Fyi, I'm pretty sure you're talking to kiwi's main dev :)
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    Then the main dev is just wrong. That issue contains the exact words "Since then, now Kiwi Browser contains ads" as an explicit reason why they can't be in F-Droid.

by _njyk 3y ago

Springtime 3y ago

I've never tried Kiwi Browser but had similarly come across it while searching. The dev themselves refers to them as ads[1] (2022), though prior to being accepted properly into Bing's referral program Kiwi redirected all search queries through their own servers[2][3] (2021) (the original Kiwi repo's issues tab has been deleted since). Tbf the dev always sounds reasonable in their responses but was a little off-putting initially so I kinda understand the GP's impression. [1] https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/91#issuecomment-1067076965 https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/91#issuecomme... [2] https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35 https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35 [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20210605191305/https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src/issues/352 https://web.archive.org/web/20210605191305/https://github.co...

mardifoufs 3y ago
Fyi, I'm pretty sure you're talking to kiwi's main dev :)
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Then the main dev is just wrong. That issue contains the exact words "Since then, now Kiwi Browser contains ads" as an explicit reason why they can't be in F-Droid.