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Get private internet access in PWA web browser. Create dual space, shortcuts.

It looks like a very well built app to convert web pages to lite apps. It also seems to be based on Firefox and seems to include something similar to that of Firefox Multiaccount Containers for every webapp, on top of an adblocker. Seems very neat. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about whether or not it is open source and how the privacy and security potentially is?

Edit: I am aware of Native Alpha but it is very ugly with bad interface and hasn’t been updated in two years, and also doesn’t really sandbox apps to my knowledge like this does.

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I hear he don’t run in background. Always center stage him. Super star.

“Joke” done. Have you tried Hermit, OP? It has containers too. Kinda pricey though.

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It comes on sale somewhat often, I saw a sale post the other day on Lemmy somewhere.

There’s also Native Alpha on Fdroid which does something similar

edit: decided to give it a try. Interestingly, both Lemmy and Mastodon are listed in the “popular” section of the built in apps

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If you remember which community that was, please let me know. Still missing a replacement for r/androidappsales!

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For sure! Turns out I was subscribed to two, the later being an automated mirror of a subreddit

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There’s also a community for the Hermit app it turns out [email protected]. That one seems abandoned

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Thanks a lot!

And now we wait…

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Hermit seems nice as well. Only thing is I did a couple of privacy tests on both apps and the one that I discovered seems to do a better job at protecting my privacy when using the websites. But I would be curious to know what the privacy implications of the apps themselves are (WebApps and Hermit)

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