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What We Stripped From Chromium (and What Broke)

Honest UA vs Spoofed UA: A Field Report on What Actually Breaks

Who Really Invented Tabbed Browsing? The Messy, Forgotten History

Every Browser Permission, Explained: What You Grant When You Click "Allow"

Cookie Banners Are Privacy Theater

The Indie Browser Renaissance: Meet the Projects Rebuilding the Web on Their Own Terms

Nav0 vs Opera: From Innovation to Monetization

Nav0 v0.1.2 Performance Update: Even Lighter on the Same Hardware

Nav0 vs Comet Browser: Two Privacy Browsers, Different Trust Models

Nav0 vs DuckDuckGo Browser: When Your Privacy Brand Has a Microsoft Exception

Nav0 vs Microsoft Edge: The Browser That Reports Everything to Redmond

Nav0 vs Tor Browser: Maximum Anonymity vs. Maximum Simplicity

Nav0 vs Safari: Privacy by Default vs. Privacy by Apple's Terms

Nav0 vs Vivaldi: When Your Browser Tries to Be Everything

Nav0 vs Arc: Rethinking the Browser vs. Stripping It Down

Nav0 vs Brave: Privacy Shouldn't Come with a Business Model

Nav0 vs Firefox: When 'Good Enough' Privacy Isn't Good Enough

Incognito Mode Is Not Private: The Biggest Lie Your Browser Tells You

Nav0 vs Chrome: Which Browser Actually Respects Your Data?

Nav0 vs Chrome: A Head-to-Head Performance Benchmark on macOS

The Enshittification of Chrome: How the World's Most Popular Browser Turned Against Its Users

Why Your Browser Wants You to Sign In

Browser Extensions Won't Save Your Privacy

Your Browser Is Watching You: The Hidden Cost of Free Browsing

Stop Forcing AI Into My Browser

Your Browser Doesn't Need a Built-In VPN

Big Tech Owns Your Browser

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On indie browsers, big-tech control of the web, and the history worth remembering as the browser landscape consolidates.

  • Indie web · May 28, 2026 · 17 min readHonest UA vs Spoofed UA: A Field Report on What Actually BreaksA concrete list of what breaks when an indie browser lies about being Chromium — Client Hints, bot defenses, passkeys, DRM, Web Push, store installs, analytics, and more — written for other indie browser teams.
  • Indie web · May 25, 2026 · 14 min readWho Really Invented Tabbed Browsing? The Messy, Forgotten HistoryInternetWorks, NetCaptor, SimulBrowse — the real, messy history of tabbed browsing, and why the popular story that Opera invented the browser tab is a myth.
  • Indie web · Apr 22, 2026 · 11 min readThe Indie Browser Renaissance: Meet the Projects Rebuilding the Web on Their Own TermsA celebratory survey of today's indie browsers — Min, Helium, Ladybird, Zen, Orion, Qutebrowser, SigmaOS, Floorp, LibreWolf, Beaker, and Nav0 — and why a scrappy wave of small projects matters in a web dominated by four vendors.
  • Comparisons · Feb 4, 2026 · 14 min readBig Tech Owns Your BrowserGoogle, Microsoft, and Apple control how billions of people access the web. When your browser is made by an ad company or a platform gatekeeper, whose interests does it really serve?

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