Kagi search and Orion Browser



Like Manton, I'm a happy Kagi user too. And like him, this gives me the right to talk about the stuff I don't like about them 😂 

I'm enjoying Kagi instead of Google, but it's still not quite right. For a paid search engine, there should be no clutter. If the query is an actual question with an answer, give me a ChatGPT-style UI, free of distractions. If the query is to find a web page, give me 10 blue links and nothing else.

Last month I decided to give their browser Orion a try on my phone, tablet and Laptop. One of the boons of it should be support for Chrome and Firefox (but not Safari) extensions like UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and Consent-o-Matic. The lack of Safari extensions meant I wasn't able to use MapSwitch, which forces Google Maps links to be opened with Apple Maps. 

But even with these plugins installed, the EFF Cover Your Tracks test shows that the standard out of the box Safari browser gives me more privacy then Orion with these extensions. 😥. 

I also found the UX hard to get used to. I guess I'll check Orion out again a year or two from now. For now, I'm back to Safari. 

Please hesitate to call. 

Greetings,

Jan

Modern Font Stacks

Maybe you've noticed that a lot of websites these days will not just show you text, but they will do so in a fancy font. 

That font is probably not on your device, but needs to be downloaded from Google (or another "free" provider of font hosting). So even without installing any cookies, Google now knows you're visiting that website. Spyware galore. 

Anyways, why do we need these hosted fonts? Why not use the ones that are on any modern device already?

Maybe because we don't really know what we already have. 

This website, 
https://modernfontstacks.com/#font-stacks, helps to change that. It just shows you the fonts that a user probably already has, and it shows these fonts in an appealing way too 😊 

Happy writing ✌️