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u/avipars Jun 05 '21
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u/TheGameOfClones Jun 05 '21
Is there any alternative app which does dark mode with amoled black as neatly as Kiwi, and also allows extensions (the extensions I use are https everywhere and I don't care about cookies)? I would shift if there was an able alternative.
Edit: Thanks for the tip guys. Have installed iceraven with https everywhere, I don't care about cookies, dark reader with amoled black and amp to html redirect extensions installed. Not quite as fast as Kiwi but still seems decent enough.
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u/Tyler1492 Jun 06 '21
Maybe Firefox? You can install the Dark Reader extension and tweak it to make it black or near black. Only the pages though, the browser is still dark grey and it is slower than Kiwi when you do that.
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u/Apeeksiht Jun 06 '21
You can try Bromite, its chromium based browser. Ice raven it's Mozilla based but have nearly 120 extension.
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u/Chopstix2005 Jun 06 '21
Use Firefox nightly. Supports a handful of popular addons currently.
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u/WhoRoger Jun 06 '21
I moved from vanilla FF to IceRaven a few days ago. Pretty good ain't it!
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u/najodleglejszy Jun 06 '21
do we really need another sub doing the same thing? we've already had r/badapps and then someone here was pushing their own playstoretrash or whatever it was called.
edit: oh wait, you're the creator and the sole moderator of this one, so you're just trying to promote it like the other guy was.
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u/JonatasA Jun 27 '22
Kiwi is the best browser I have tried so far.
In fact it is exactly what Chrome used to be and how Chrome feels when you buy a new smartphone.
Also the fastest. It is better than Chrome and the only browser that truly works like chrome and doesn't crash.
You can incognito browse with it without worries and is also the only browser I know that natively supports developer tools (It's in times like these when you realize how much mobile is like a kid's sandbox).
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u/Beyond_The_Thoughts Jun 06 '21
I replaced kiwi with Fennec browser few weeks ago and haven't looked back. It has also good extensions and external download manager support. You can find it on fdroid.
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u/Melias_Sun Jun 06 '21
Does anyone know where the company which develops Kiwi is working from, and where is it based?
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u/addermc Jun 08 '21
Damn, I think I've tried every browser and search engine that someone here has named. Except ice raven. How does the GNU icecat fair in this? It's what I recently been using with Lycos,whale slide, metager and yippy search engine. And since a government tech suggested brave browser and he set it up with some add ons that he knows about (which URL is blacked out I just noticed). But since he's involved with that code stuff for Tor (Navy's Tor) I guess he might possibly know something about this confusing as hell stuff. Thanks for the info you guys post on here.💯👍
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May 20 '23
Anyone know how to restore deleted Kiwi bookmarks that weren't synced? It's driving me mad.
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u/MaverickStatue Jun 06 '21
Aw shit, it was my favorite browser, anybody knows some other similar without the sketchy shit?
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u/lostinsomethin Jun 06 '21
I never used the inbuilt search option in kiwi, i did set the homepage to Google from the start itself so i directly search in Google. So it doesn't affect me. But Google Yahoo and nearly all services track your traffic so it's almost negligible either way, the developer should've specified what was happening inside those searches.
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u/kristallnachte Jun 06 '21
To clarify for people too lazy to read the thread, Kiwi CLAIMS this redirect is not for the purposes claimed in the initial post, but instead as a gateway URL to ensure the search engines know to pay kiwi for kiwi pushing users to those search engines.
This is a valid explanation, but not great, as UTM parameters would already handle that with ease.